Balancing money and mission
2 February 2015
After a career at Oxford University Press, Mandy Hill has "switched sides", and is now managing director for academic publishing at Cambridge University Press. We caught up with her at Frankfurt Book Fair
February/March 2015
What`s in a name?
2 February 2015
Delegates at IPI Confex will hear about the latest efforts to standardise at least one part of the patent application process. Tim Gillett reports
Preparing for impact
2 February 2015
Global use of institutional repositories is on the rise - but the trend is not without its challenges, writes Nadya Anscombe
Preserving progress for future generations
2 February 2015
As organisations race to meet today`s digital preservation challenges, are uncertainties over cost and necessity still stifling progress? Rebecca Pool finds out
Subscribing to a changing world
2 February 2015
The last year has been an eventful one for subscription agents. Sharon Davies reports on the latest trends and developments
Peer review under pressure?
2 February 2015
Recent years have seen significant challenges for the world of peer review, with increasing pressures on editors tasked with finding trusted and reliable reviewers - and growing concerns about the incidence of peer review fraud and retractions resulting from this. Here, five companies developing editorial and peer review systems tell us how they are facing the future
Still a long way to go for OA?
2 February 2015
Lorraine Estelle, executive director for digital resources and divisional CEO of Jisc Collections, considers the costs associated with the spread of open access
Librarians prevalent in use of social media
2 February 2015
Jodie Bell of Taylor & Francis asks: how important is social media as a communication tool?
Working together at the tipping point
2 February 2015
We are moving towards an educational era of choice over tradition, convenience over perfection, self-service over predefined options, writes Fiona Leslie, EMEA marketing manager at OCLC
Latest issue
Faye Holst
Two librarians from the National Library of Scotland share their experiences with Faye Holst
A crisis requires rapid decision-making, and keeping record of these decisions becomes more important, says William Kilbride
Paul Stokes
Deciding to do nothing about preservation could be a disaster, says Paul Stokes
Julia Peregudova
The Russian Federation has declared 2021 as a year of Science and Technology – which predicts an increase in the sphere of scientific publications, writes Julia Peregudova
There is no easy answer, but some routes through the maze are becoming visible, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
More than 120 delegates from an array of institutions and countries around the world joined the organisers of CISPC for the first virtual version of the event.
