February/March 2009

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