Should we be prepared to face a future without digital curation?
1 May 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
May/ June 2004
Why librarians should switch on their radios
1 May 2004
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
Running a business is like running a marathon
1 May 2004
John Murphy profiles the founder and CEO of the library IT provider, Innovative Interfaces
New centre boosts biotech text mining
1 May 2004
Professor John Keane, co-director of the National Centre for Text Mining in Manchester, UK, describes the aims of the centre
New legal deposit laws include digital data
1 May 2004
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
Will learned societies signal the change?
1 May 2004
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
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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.
