David Stuart reports back from a meeting in London to explore the opportunities of linking data on the web

Joachim Schöpfel and Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri report back from a recent symposium on assessing online usage of academic resources held in Lille, France

Bob Campbell of Wiley-Blackwell reveals how the role of society publishers has changed and why many are turning to larger commercial partners

Siân Harris asks some of the people involved in publishing, licensing and distributing electronic books about the latest trends in devices, formats and business models

After the two-year long e-book observatory project, JISC's Caren Milloy reports on a new project to investigate the best business models for e-books and their potential impact on print sales

The humanities and social sciences have been reluctant to adopt open-access publishing, but change is afoot, reports Rebecca Pool

The Dutch higher education sector is convinced of the need for open access, writes Annemiek van der Kuil of SURFshare in a report from a recent seminar in the Netherlands

Siân Harris discovers how Elsevier's online product-development communities are encouraging networking and discussions about scholarly publishing