December 2009/January 2010

Integrating information in academic libraries is very important but some users don't know how to find this information in the first place. Credo Reference is taking on the challenge of enticing users to their libraries' resources, writes John Dove

Science communication should go beyond peer-reviewed journals and conferences if the public are to engage with scientific developments, argues Jonathon Rees

Caroline Sutton reports back from the First Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing held recently in Sweden

To keep pace with information changes and the needs of users, librarians need some programming skills, argues David Stuart

The possibilities that networked electronic resources offer to researchers are extensive but do they know what they are allowed to do with the content available to them? Siân Harris and John Murphy ask about the challenges of licensing and rights management

Simon Hodson of JISC examines how technology and funding policies have changed the ways that researchers share data

At the ALPSP annual conference in September Fred Dylla of American Institute of Physics revealed how a new group from across the industry is seeking to find common ground in the open access stand-off, writes Siân Harris