Turning names into structures simplifies drug discovery
12 April 2006
A tool to normalise information about chemical compounds is the first result of a partnership between Elsevier MDL and Temis
April/May 2006
Business efficiency with a personal touch
12 April 2006
Sabine Brünger-Weilandt, president and CEO of Germany's Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Karlsruhe.
Demand for integration triggers consolidation
12 April 2006
The changing nature of research resources and the demands of its users are having a knock-on effect on the companies that help libraries to manage this information. Siân Harris discovers OCLC PICA's perspective on the library-management sector
Partnership tackles archiving challenge
12 April 2006
There is a growing awareness of the need to preserve digital information. Tim Tamminga of Endeavor Information Systems describes how a new partnership with Sun plans to address this issue.
Visualisation boosts power of STM databases
12 April 2006
Leading STM database providers are starting to offer visualisation tools to help interpret search results. David Mort reveals how this could help existing users to get more from their information and encourage new users
Latest issue
Antonia Seymour, chief executive at IOP Publishing, and Andrew Barker, director of library services and learning development at Lancaster University, talk about hybrid working and re-thinking how we work
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
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Siân Harris looks at what role cloud-based services play in libraries today, their benefits and limitations and what challenges remain
Charlie Rapple
Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple explains her passion for accelerating the dissemination – and impact – of science
Sowmya Swaminathan
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
Helen Lippell
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Mark Hahnel
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Miriam Maus
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing
