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Library-management software company, SirsiDynix
Library-management software company, SirsiDynix
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has recently launched its first open-access journal, Biomicrofluidics. We asked Mark Cassar, AIP’s manager for journal development, about open access, new technologies and why a physics publisher is interested in biology
German information specialists have teamed up to develop a new portal that provides links to informatics research worldwide, as Ute Rusnak of FIZ Karlsruhe explains
Knowledge management has become a well-used term but people disagree on what it actually means and what is required to achieve it, as Iain Dunbar of Softlink Europe reveals
Catherine Jones gives a case study of how one research council has dealt with the challenge of collecting together all the research output from the facilities it funds
The new SUSHI protocol is a standard way of reporting and analysing statistics on online journal usage. William Hoffman of Swets describes how this can simplify things for librarians
Interviews for this article have been adapted from recent PhaidraCon roundtable events and from upcoming 2023 editions of EpistemiCast
Patrick Hargitt explains why 2022 became the year that accessibility got serious
Joseph Koivisto and Jordan Sly from the University of Maryland discuss the implications of the publications-as-data model
Despite the collective and decisive step changes in enabling the transition to open access this year, we should not be complacent, writes Susie Winter
Thomas Shaw and Andrew Barker from Lancaster University Library discuss the realities, challenges and future impact of open access in the research community
It’s not a question of if, but how. The future of scholarly publishing is open, yet the debate on how to accelerate the growth of open access continues