Helping libraries to help users
12 January 2007
Library-management software company, SirsiDynix
Fiona Hutton, of Cambridge University Press and Assessment, looks back over her career and tells of her love of the wilderness
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
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While open science has gained from the pandemic many challenges remain, writes David Stuart
David Armstrong
Options for disseminating research content have proliferated over the past decade, writes David Armstrong
Rachel Burley
The peer review-based publishing is under more pressure than ever to become faster and more open, writes Rachel Burley
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Shane Rydquist and Minhaj Rais ask: has investment in new content types led to a new era in discovery?
James Gray
Kortext CEO James Gray reflects on founding the company, his wider career, and some life-changing moments
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'Elitist world' discriminating against humanities must be avoided at all costs, write Martin Eve and Anthony Cond
Sami Benchekroun
Sami Benchekroun outlines post-pandemic trends in scholarly communications
Alvin Hutchinson
Institutional repositories have not evolved in the way they were first intended, writes Alvin Hutchinson
Frances Downey
Frances Downey, head of research and innovation culture at UKRI, explains the formation of the organisation’s Good Research Resource Hub
