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Getting users involved in product testing and feedback is a common and valuable part of companies’ product development. But the ubiquity of electronic information…
Getting users involved in product testing and feedback is a common and valuable part of companies’ product development. But the ubiquity of electronic information…
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) is investing 2.5 million euros in a special open-access (OA) budget. This money is available for researchers…
In Spring 2009, a tense debate took place at the University of Maryland, USA that painfully highlighted the chasm between science, technical and medical…
E-books are helping turn students into researchers. The convenience of online access allows users to view e-books off campus and throughout the day and…
Olaf Ernst, president, e-product management and innovation, SpringerThe biggest development in e-books that publishers are seeing is in mobile devices. E-book readers are getting…
For the three centuries up until the Second World War journals were published largely by national societies, with university presses and academic publishing houses…
Last November Lille, in the heart of Europe, hosted the first international conference on usage-related approaches to academic digital libraries.The first message of the…
Most people think of the web as a collection of documents interconnected by hyperlinks. Increasingly, however, organisations from across the different sectors of society…
Why did you start Mendeley?The basic idea came about when my co-founder Jan Reichelt and I were doing graduate studies. Even though we were…