October/November 2013

Earlier this year Elsevier bought the web-based engineering information company Knovel. Siân Harris caught up with what the company has been doing since it was bought, and how things have changed

Open standards and better metadata are paving the way for more robust publishing systems, writes Siân Harris

There are many sources of information available to researchers. Database providers argue that this makes the role of high-quality databases as important as ever. Interviews by Siân Harris

Earlier this year SAGE and Jisc organised a librarian roundtable to examine the implications of managing article-processing charges. Siân Harris, who also wrote the report of the event, describes some of the key findings