Unpacking books
Daniel Smith, head of academic publishing, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)We currently have 300 books and 4,500-5,000 chapters on our e-book platform…
April/May 2012
Physical sciences need ‘collective conversation’
Funding agencies, publishers, librarians and learned societies need to think radically and work creatively together in order to realise more compelling information products and…
Data centres enable sharing and research recognition
Data centres are helping to spread and reinforce a culture of openness and data sharing among researchers, according to the recent report, ‘Data centres:…
Tool delves into journal experimental details
There has been plenty of excitement about publishers opening up their data to be used in new applications. The vision is that new tools…
Digital preservation matters
Vicky Reich (left); Randy Kiefer (right)Why do preservation?RK: From the days of cave paintings the format of content has kept changing. Digital is…