Helping libraries to help users
12 January 2007
Library-management software company, SirsiDynix
It might be fair to say we have entered the era of irreproducible science, write Martijn Roelandse and Anita Bandrowski
December 2006/January 2007
Open access helps when disciplines overlap
12 January 2007
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 scientists aggregate worldwide informatics knowledge
12 January 2007
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
Systems must change to help knowledge management
12 January 2007
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
Collecting research output
12 January 2007
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
Making sense of usage statistics
12 January 2007
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
Latest issue
Heather Staines
The new non-profit Knowledge Futures Group offers institutions a valuable scholarly communications resource, writes Heather Staines
From deposits to discovery, Rebecca Pool looks at the long and winding journey of the institutional repository
A UK-based university librarian, who has chosen to remain anonymous, has spoken out about ‘gobsmacking’ prices for some ebooks
Daniel Keirs considers open science from the perspective of a physics publisher, including some of the steps needed to accelerate progress
Matt McKay
Papers related to the pandemic have been downloaded more than 150 million times, writes Matt McKay
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi, editor-in-chief of the Web of Science at Clarivate, explains what editorial integrity means for citation data and journal evaluation
Alex Freeman
Documentary-maker Alex Freeman never imagined she would create a tool that could overhaul the structure of academic publishing, writes Faye Holst
