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
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
From bypassing aggregators to the influx of new university presses, the world of library-based publishing is changing fast, reports Rebecca Pool
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
Chris Smith
Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
Rossana Morriello
Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
