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
Interviews for this article have been adapted from recent PhaidraCon roundtable events and from upcoming 2023 editions of EpistemiCast
Patrick Hargitt explains why 2022 became the year that accessibility got serious
Joseph Koivisto and Jordan Sly from the University of Maryland discuss the implications of the publications-as-data model
Despite the collective and decisive step changes in enabling the transition to open access this year, we should not be complacent, writes Susie Winter
Thomas Shaw and Andrew Barker from Lancaster University Library discuss the realities, challenges and future impact of open access in the research community
It’s not a question of if, but how. The future of scholarly publishing is open, yet the debate on how to accelerate the growth of open access continues
