Lisa Jeskins and Bethan Ruddock describe a free tool that enables users to search the UK's national and academic libraries

Siân Harris finds out about a new social network to help physicists work together and share information

John Murphy discovers how HighWire provides technology and community to more than 140 publishers

Information professional Hervé Basset shares his observations about the role of Web 2.0 technology in science intelligence in industry

With the current enthusiasm for anything '2.0', David Stuart asks what it will take to change the way that academics work

Arnaud Pellé of Emerald Group Publishing takes a look at the history of e-books and what their future holds

Charlie Rapple (right) reports on proposals to improve the accuracy and completeness of the data supplied to knowledge bases