May/ June 2004

A new digital curation centre in the UK will help research institutions to safeguard research data for years to come. Peter Burnhill, the centre's interim director, reports

Radio-frequency identification is emerging as a good way to improve automation and security in many business sectors. Birgit Lindl, from Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems, reports on why RFID is important for libraries

John Murphy profiles the founder and CEO of the library IT provider, Innovative Interfaces

Professor John Keane, co-director of the National Centre for Text Mining in Manchester, UK, describes the aims of the centre

In future, publishers will be required to deposit digital information that is published in the UK into the country's national libraries. Siân Harris investigates what this means

Reforming science publishing will affect more than just the dissemination of science: it could catalyse more fundamental changes. The learned societies might be best placed to shape the outcome, suggests Vanessa Spedding