Cultural cooperation brings digital access to hidden treasures worldwide
The Google Art project launched in February is a dazzling virtual tour through the galleries of some of the world’s most famous museums. It…
April/May 2011
Putting research data into the cloud
Reliable technology is fundamental when managing high volumes of technical datasets. If your laptop is lost or stolen it can cause a great deal…
Physics journal gets video abstracts
More than ever, researchers interact only with the electronic version of a research journal – a situation underlined by the way in which electronic-usage…
Financial challenges, digital opportunities
Values are key for higher education, according to a senior university leader at the recent JISC annual conference. Eric Thomas, vice chancellor of the…
Opening library data
An increasingly wide range of organisations are starting to recognise the advantages of making some of their data publicly available online, and allowing external…
Discovery services sift through expert resources
Internet search engines, whatever we think of them, have changed user expectations of searching for information. Expert databases and other information services and platforms…
Bringing e-book resources together
Scott Wasinger is the senior director of sales, eBooks and audiobooks at EBSCOWe continue to see growing interest in e-books. In the face of…
Publishers have unseen strengths
What trends have you seen?I’ve been in the industry nearly 33 years and the huge change has been the move from print. The pace…