Will learned societies signal the change?
Rarely has a proposal triggered such a flurry of initiatives, statements, petitions, reports, reactions and inquiries as the concept of open access publishing. Although…
May/ June 2004
New legal deposit laws include digital data
A new bill from the UK government promises to pave the way for digital data to be preserved in legal deposits in the six…
New centre boosts biotech text mining
Text mining is a way of discovering new information by applying techniques from natural language processing, data mining, and information retrieval. Its uses include…
Running a business is like running a marathon
The secret of running a marathon, according to Jerry Kline, is to pace yourself so that you can still be going many miles down…
Why librarians should switch on their radios
For more than five years, libraries all over the world have been taking advantage of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. Current market research shows that…
Should we be prepared to face a future without digital curation?
It's 2020. A postgraduate student has chosen 'Icons and Irony in late 20th Century Science' as the topic for her thesis. She expects to…