Finding meaning from chaos
Web technologies offer researchers new ways to find and use information but publishers need to innovate to help them, believes John Haynes, vice president of publishing at the American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Web technologies offer researchers new ways to find and use information but publishers need to innovate to help them, believes John Haynes, vice president of publishing at the American Institute of Physics (AIP)
In October 2009, Nature Publishing Group (NPG) launched a new service to allow remote searching of the nature.com platform via nature.com OpenSearch. We ask Tony Hammond, application architect at NPG, what the new service is all about
Jelena Katic of Sciyo reveals why the company will be paying authors when their open-access monographs are downloaded
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has launched a digital archive of the Financial Times newspaper. Siân Harris found out what newspaper archives offer to researchers
Open data and open APIs offer huge opportunities for research and innovation, writes Elsevier's Rafael Sidi
The survival of traditional publishers in a rapidly-evolving environment will depend on their ability to identify what their customers most need, and keep delivering this, writes Melinda Kenneway of TBI Communications
The latest developments in web technology will undoubtedly continue to
affect libraries. David Stuart looks at some of the technology on the horizon
Data sharing on virtual servers can aid collaboration and help universities cut costs and carbon emissions, writes JISC's James Farnhill
Discussions about the potential of electronic books were enthusiastic despite near-term challenges at the recent Online Information show in London, as Tom Wilkie and Siân Harris discovered
Siân Harris reports back from the Online Information conference that was held in London in December
James Gray assesses the situation and how it can be addressed
Matt Balara explains how an established publisher, De Gruyter, completed an extraordinary transformation
From rapid disease information to a way to promote and share regional knowledge in multiple languages, preprints have come into their own in recent years. Siân Harris finds out more
Céline Richard explains what the Large Hadron Collider has taught us about the importance of open access research
Ivy Cavendish tells the inspirational tale behind the formation of a writing tool for researchers, TooWrite
There is a continuing need for the sorts of insights and judgements that only a person can bring, writes David Stuart
COUNTER reports have an integral role to play in our wider scholarly communication system, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Emerald Publishing CEO Tony Roche talks of his career in scholarly publishing and a love of eastern cuisine
Alicia Wise, CLOCKSS executive director, reflects on her career and explains the importance of robustly preserving academic resources
Heather Staines sums up proceedings at this year's Researcher to Reader conference