A semantic approach
8 December 2011
TEMIS has recently launched the latest version of its Luxid product for semantic enrichment. Eric Brégand, chief executive officer of the company, tells us how this can help publishers
December 2011/January 2012
Scientific research helps oil and gas exploration
8 December 2011
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
Evolution, revolution or something else?
8 December 2011
Sian Harris reports back from the ALPSP annual conference in September on discussions about the future of the scholarly publishing industry
Breaking down monograph borders
8 December 2011
Sian Harris looks at the dawn of a new era in the story of university presses - the cross-press platform
Integrate, not separate, social media
8 December 2011
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
Access, review and changing brains
8 December 2011
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
EPUB 3 launches but devices may not be ready
8 December 2011
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
Metadata project attracts funding
8 December 2011
A project to help digital repositories control and make money from their digital assets has attracted funding from the UK government
Google Plus: Do you need to join another social networking site?
8 December 2011
As the role of social networking grows in research and publishing David Stuart takes a look at Google Plus and what it promises
Latest issue
Antonia Seymour, chief executive at IOP Publishing, and Andrew Barker, director of library services and learning development at Lancaster University, talk about hybrid working and re-thinking how we work
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
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Siân Harris looks at what role cloud-based services play in libraries today, their benefits and limitations and what challenges remain
Charlie Rapple
Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple explains her passion for accelerating the dissemination – and impact – of science
Sowmya Swaminathan
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
Helen Lippell
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Mark Hahnel
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Miriam Maus
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing
