With the rise of the internet changing this industry beyond recognition, scientific publishing is becoming more complex. Siân Harris found out why this could make the agent's role more important than ever
Two years ago Elsevier became the first publisher to agree to deposit all its journals articles into the Dutch National Library. Elsevier's director of IT Solutions, Geoffrey Adams, explains why and how it is progressing so far
Thomson plans to buy Information Holdings, the parent company of MicroPatent. Peter Rees found out what this might mean to patent users
John Murphy profiles the president and CEO of the Research Libraries Group, an international organisation for libraries, museums and archives
In all the talk of journals pricing and reducing the turnaround of the peer review process, the issue of quality can get overlooked. Ulrich Pöschl describes an open-access journal that is seeking to redress the balance
David Mort kicks off our new analysis section with a critical look at the effects of mergers and acquisitions on end-users
Authors need to be reconnected to the library to make it the starting point for research, argues Robert Lisiecki
Earlier this year, the UK-based Institute for Scientific Information, Clarivate Analytics, published a report called Profiles, not Metrics
Joe Tragert explains how to leverage discovery platforms as information literacy training tools
The mechanisms of scholarly communication are showing their age, writes Daniel Hook
