Pierre Buffet, executive vice president of Questel, shares his thoughts on what patent information professionals want and how their needs can be met
Social networking, RSS and new open-access options are just some of the developments that have gathered pace in engineering information over the past year, writes librarian Roddy MacLeod
Knovel finds out how its engineering reference resources are being used at The Colorado School of Mines in the USA
The internet opens the door to new information sources but finding the right information can be a challenge, writes Jay Katzen of Elsevier
The number of Chinese patent applications are increasing by around 30 per cent each year. Siân Harris reports back from the Online Information meeting about how patent information providers are helping people around the world to access and use this information
Neil Grindley of JISC describes the importance of preserving digital information and some of the major projects that are helping with this
Siân Harris finds out about some of the latest moves to bring more of the benefits of research meetings online
Last autumn, Springer bought open-access publisher BioMed Central. John Murphy finds out what this means for the companies
What does 2009 hold for scholarly information? Siân Harris reports back from the Online Information show
As the pressure to understand student success rises, Rebecca Pool asks: are libraries coming around to learning analytics?
The publishing industry has yet to fully acknowledge the need to create accessible stories to increase the uptake of OA articles, writes Sabine Louët
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Szabi Steiner describes efforts to encourage data sharing at City, University of London
Jacqueline Thompson, Marcus Munafò and Ian Penton-Voak introduce a tool to help assess research quality
Sophie Goldsworthy and Ben Denne sift through 5,000 responses from HSS researchers
Jo McShea rounds up the 50th annual STM conference, held last week in Frankfurt
