Database versus search engine
25 November 2010
Specialist databases yield results that are less easily found through Google, reveals research by energy-information database ETDEWEB
Tim Gillett picks five hot riffs on UX
CASE STUDY
Web Publisher gets to the heart of obesity
23 September 2010
When The National Heart Forum began developing its international databases for obesity studies, it needed a reliable, simple-to-use bibliographic reference management software package, writes Michelle Boness
Riding the wave helps platform development
12 August 2010
MetaPress has recently launched a beta version of a new content management and hosting system, Mozaic. To help share ideas about this major project, the company's R&D team turned to Google Wave but since this article was first published Google announced it will stop this tool. Jeff Stewart describes the benefits of using Google Wave in development and invites readers to discuss the impacts of Google's new decision
Open-source search tool helps clippings database
20 May 2009
The UK's Newspaper Licensing Agency is using Flax enterprise search software in its new clippings service
Latest issue
As the pressure to understand student success rises, Rebecca Pool asks: are libraries coming around to learning analytics?
The publishing industry has yet to fully acknowledge the need to create accessible stories to increase the uptake of OA articles, writes Sabine Louët
Tell us a little about your background and qualifications...
I certainly cannot say that being editor-in-chief of Nature was something I aimed to be as I was growing up.
Szabi Steiner
Szabi Steiner describes efforts to encourage data sharing at City, University of London
Jacqueline Thompson, Marcus Munafò and Ian Penton-Voak introduce a tool to help assess research quality
Sophie Goldsworthy and Ben Denne sift through 5,000 responses from HSS researchers
Jo McShea rounds up the 50th annual STM conference, held last week in Frankfurt
