Analysis and opinion

Olivier Dumon looks at big data and its potential to change the European educational landscape

At the recent Internet Librarian International conference in London, Karin Bystrom of Uppsala University in Sweden emphasised the need for discussion in closing the gap between librarians and publishers

In an article based on his presentation at the recent STM Frankfurt conference, Jonathan Foster asks how early-career researchers and publishers can help each other

Ellen Collins considers a recent survey of researcher attitudes to monographs and asks what the future is for the academic book

With hype waning for MOOCs and the backlash in full swing, what does the post-MOOC environment look like for higher education? Simon Linacre explores an increasingly complicated future of teaching, learning and research

As the world of scientific publishing changes, authors need to be prepared for post-publication peer comments on their work, argues Anna Sharman

Hijacking of journal websites is a worrying side product of scholarly communication moving online and a topic that Iran-based journalist and researcher Mehrdad Jalalian is particularly concerned about. We asked him about the problem and how researchers and others can address the issue