Libraries divided over preservation urgency
The potential loss of e-journals is unacceptable, according to a recent study of library directors carried out by Portico and Ithaka.Their survey of 1,371…
August / September 2008
Online resources help learning
A generation ago students learned from text books – sometimes written by their lecturers. An elite few got to travel to the dusty archives…
Search engine helps chemists
Hunting down relevant information from the different acronyms, formulae and multiple names that represent chemical compounds is hard enough for an untrained human, let…
Repository increases visibility
In January 2006 the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) became one of the first Spanish signatories of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to…
Robotics speed up book digitisation
As I write this – and probably as you read it – six sophisticated machines and their operators are hard at work in a…
Web 2.0 ideas enrich Europe’s digital heritage
The heritage organisations of Europe have digitised tens of millions of significant pictures, films, books, photographs, sounds, newspapers, manuscripts and archival records in recent…
Journal unites research articles with raw data
When Hindawi and SAGE formed a partnership at the end of last year both publishers were venturing into new territory. For Egypt-based Hindawi it…
Chasing the long tail
What trends have you observed?AJ: Three years ago what we sold was about a third print only, a third electronic only and a third…