Sharing and innovating
We ask Victor Henning, one of the founders and directors of Mendeley, about the reference management start-up
We ask Victor Henning, one of the founders and directors of Mendeley, about the reference management start-up
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
James Gray assesses the situation and how it can be addressed
Matt Balara explains how an established publisher, De Gruyter, completed an extraordinary transformation
From rapid disease information to a way to promote and share regional knowledge in multiple languages, preprints have come into their own in recent years. Siân Harris finds out more
Céline Richard explains what the Large Hadron Collider has taught us about the importance of open access research
Ivy Cavendish tells the inspirational tale behind the formation of a writing tool for researchers, TooWrite
There is a continuing need for the sorts of insights and judgements that only a person can bring, writes David Stuart
COUNTER reports have an integral role to play in our wider scholarly communication system, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Emerald Publishing CEO Tony Roche talks of his career in scholarly publishing and a love of eastern cuisine
Alicia Wise, CLOCKSS executive director, reflects on her career and explains the importance of robustly preserving academic resources
Heather Staines sums up proceedings at this year's Researcher to Reader conference