One less job for publishers
1 October 2005
Marketing is the latest task to be outsourced to specialist agencies, according to Pinar Erzin
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
October/November 2005
Information counting gathers pace
1 October 2005
Peter Shepherd, project director of COUNTER, describes this international effort to create standards for measuring how online information is used
Archive programmes gain momentum
1 October 2005
Electronic archives of published and unpublished results are becoming popular with academic institutions but they are not without controversy. Nadya Anscombe investigates
Automation reduces the cost of archiving
1 October 2005
Automating the way that data is indexed, sorted and structured can save publishers and societies considerable time and expense, writes Philip Paterson of UK-based SomCom
Language skills help text mining
1 October 2005
French text-mining company Temis believes that working in multiple languages is essential for getting the most out of electronic information
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From bypassing aggregators to the influx of new university presses, the world of library-based publishing is changing fast, reports Rebecca Pool
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
Chris Smith
Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
Rossana Morriello
Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
