Licences are valuable tools
Alicia Wise, chief executive of the UK's Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) and also on secondment to the Publishers Association, explains why licences are particularly valuable now that so much content is digital
Alicia Wise, chief executive of the UK's Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) and also on secondment to the Publishers Association, explains why licences are particularly valuable now that so much content is digital
The internet is changing the ways that publishers negotiate rights with authors. Sian Harris reports from the London Book Fair
The UK's Newspaper Licensing Agency is using Flax enterprise search software in its new clippings service
Mark Bide, project director of ACAP, explains how publishers can make their rights and those of their authors clear to search engines and why he believes such efforts are required
For the information professional working in the medical world, demands are intense but cash is tight. Rebecca Pool talks to GE Healthcare's Tracey Evans about its Knowledge Centre
John Murphy finds out why start-up company Co-Action Publishing has chosen the open-access model
Sian Harris reports back from London Book Fair on the latest in JISC's e-Book Observatory project
Charlie Rapple reveals the challenges and opportunities of marketing in a recession and how a new web-based community could help
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