Proof in preservation
The shift to online journals is accelerating, with obvious benefits for both libraries and users. Most readers of academic research journals these days find…
April/May 2009
Digitisation helps future proof Dutch literature
How did this digitisation initiative start?DBNL was created by the Society of Dutch Literature with a vision to make Dutch literary works available electronically…
Redefining e-books
Martin Richardson, managing director of the UK academic and journals divisions of Oxford University PressOUP is a leader in the digitisation of books to…
Scientists lead the push for open data sharing
Scientists are notorious for keeping their work under lock and key. An enormous body of scientific knowledge remains unavailable to those who need it…
Reference tool helps organise scholarly resources
One of the joys of online searching is accidentally discovering something really useful. While looking for something on a specific topic you will come…
Simplicity and complexity
What trends have you seen?The ways that people search are changing. At one end of the spectrum, there is the desire for simplification with…