Conference debates publishing concepts
Attending the APE 2014 conference in Berlin at the end of January was a journey from the research bench to the archive, stopping at…
April/May 2014
Wellcome releases details of APC spend
The Wellcome Trust has released on Figshare the details of article-processing charge (APC) payments that the funder made in 2012-13. The majority of the…
Better management reduces data loss risk
The loss of scientific data can have a devastating impact on careers. After moving all his data home to write up, biologist Billy Hinchen…
Librarians should embrace linked data
If libraries are to realise the value of the data they have been building and refining over many years, then it is not enough…
Experimenting with e-books
E-books are changing the academic publishing landscape. For some publishers, e-books represent an additional revenue stream while, for others, e-books have enabled entirely new…
Aggregators increase options for libraries and publishers
Kari Paulson, ProQuest vice president and general manager, e-booksAggregators play a major role in library e-book spending decisions today. This is largely due to…
Opportunities for innovation
How did BioMed Central begin?Having worked for Current Science Group (now Science Navigation Group) to develop the BioMedNet community website for biologists and medical…