April/May 2010

RIApr10Communities

Communities debate industry

Getting users involved in product testing and feedback is a common and valuable part of companies’ product development. But the ubiquity of electronic information…

RIApr10Access1

Open to debate

In Spring 2009, a tense debate took place at the University of Maryland, USA that painfully highlighted the chasm between science, technical and medical…

RIApr10E-books

Why e-books mean business

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…

RIApr10Usage

Assessing online usage

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…

Embracing the semantic web

Most people think of the web as a collection of documents interconnected by hyperlinks. Increasingly, however, organisations from across the different sectors of society…

RIApr10Interview

Sharing and innovating

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…

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