Digging into data in new ways
What do you do with a million books? Or a million newspaper pages? Or a million art images? Scholars now have access to huge…
August/September 2010
Preserving research for the future
In 2008, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) surveyed its members to find out what they thought about the long-term preservation…
Librarians and researchers network online
The library and information science community have been quick to recognise the potential of social network sites to engage with both customers and other…
East meets West as research grows
Over the past 10 to 15 years there has been a dramatic rise in the number of papers coming out of China. According to…
Making the case for innovation
Innovation is positive change to an existing situation – ranging from a small incremental change to a large, sweeping one. It could be a…
Riding the wave helps platform development
Google Wave has garnered a substantial amount of speculation and scepticism since its modest preview release in September 2009. Early adopters have been eager…
The Swiss Army knife for information professionals
Without any doubt, Microsoft’s SharePoint was the ‘star’ of the Documation exhibition held in Paris in March. In addition, for the first time, Microsoft…
Working together to discover information
How has ScienceDirect developed?When we started in 2000 we initially had just a few journals on the platform and about one million articles. The…