December 2011/January 2012

The Geological Society of London has contributed its geological maps to Geofacets, Elsevier's tool that brings scholarly research resources to the oil and gas industry. Sian Harris finds out why

Sian Harris reports back from the ALPSP annual conference in September on discussions about the future of the scholarly publishing industry

Sian Harris looks at the dawn of a new era in the story of university presses - the cross-press platform

In 2006 when Charlie Rapple last wrote for us about Web 2.0, the term was new and rather mysterious. Five years on, it's become part of the strategy of many scholarly publishers. She shares some tips about how to make best use of what this technology offers

Developments in the internet are enabling new approaches to access, peer review and even changing the ways our brains work. Sian Harris reports back from the STM Frankfurt meeting

The release of EPUB 3 was one of the big news announcements of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Sian Harris reports back from the fair on what this might mean

A project to help digital repositories control and make money from their digital assets has attracted funding from the UK government

As the role of social networking grows in research and publishing David Stuart takes a look at Google Plus and what it promises