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
Martijn Roelandse
It might be fair to say we have entered the era of irreproducible science, write Martijn Roelandse and Anita Bandrowski
Heather Staines
The new non-profit Knowledge Futures Group offers institutions a valuable scholarly communications resource, writes Heather Staines
From deposits to discovery, Rebecca Pool looks at the long and winding journey of the institutional repository
A UK-based university librarian, who has chosen to remain anonymous, has spoken out about ‘gobsmacking’ prices for some ebooks
Daniel Keirs considers open science from the perspective of a physics publisher, including some of the steps needed to accelerate progress
Matt McKay
Papers related to the pandemic have been downloaded more than 150 million times, writes Matt McKay
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi, editor-in-chief of the Web of Science at Clarivate, explains what editorial integrity means for citation data and journal evaluation
Alex Freeman
Documentary-maker Alex Freeman never imagined she would create a tool that could overhaul the structure of academic publishing, writes Faye Holst
