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June/July 2007

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Solving archive challenges

11 June 2007

How to preserve data as hardware and data formats evolve is a key concern for many organisations. In the first of two articles, Robert Sharp of Tessella looks at ways of ingesting, managing and storing digital information.

Feature

Training increases HINARI and AGORA benefits

11 June 2007

More than 100 publishers have opened up their online subscription journals to researchers in the world's poorest countries. But using information isn't easy if the users have no experience of such resources. Siân Harris finds out how training is helping

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Taking on the Chinese publishing challenge

11 June 2007

With its large population and growing economy, China is an attractive market but language and cultural differences present considerable challenges. Sarah Philip and Adrian Stanley of The Charlesworth Group offer advice about how publishers can make their mark in the country

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Is physics the new biomedicine?

11 June 2007

A new set of physics and maths journals are planned for BioMed Central. Siân Harris finds out why this open-access publisher is branching out from biomedical sciences.

April/May 2007

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'OA creates new opportunities'

13 April 2007

The open-access publishing model enables new types of journals that could not be published under the traditional subscription model, believes Matthew Cockerill, publisher of BioMed Central.

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The repository jigsaw

13 April 2007

The French open archive HAL plays a key role in research across France and in the emerging European network of repositories, write some of the people involved in the project.

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Bentham announces OA growth strategy

13 April 2007

Traditional subscription publishers are increasingly interested in different approaches to publishing. Siân Harris finds out why the author-pays, open-access model has become a big part of Bentham Science's plans.

Interview

Encouraging innovation

13 April 2007

Egypt-based Hindawi Publishing has just converted its last two subscription journals to the open-access model. The company's president and co-founder Ahmed Hindawi tells us why

February/March 2007

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Shaking up the library

23 January 2007

Keeping libraries relevant to users was a key theme for speakers at the recent Online Information event, as Siân Harris discovered

Interview

Beyond typesetting

23 January 2007

There is plenty of talk about outsourcing publishing services but what does it involve and who does it? We talk to Gurvinder Barta, chief technologist of USA/India-based Aptara, which serves many well-known publishers

December 2006/January 2007

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Making sense of usage statistics

12 January 2007

The new SUSHI protocol is a standard way of reporting and analysing statistics on online journal usage. William Hoffman of Swets describes how this can simplify things for librarians

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Collecting research output

12 January 2007

Catherine Jones gives a case study of how one research council has dealt with the challenge of collecting together all the research output from the facilities it funds

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Open access helps when disciplines overlap

12 January 2007

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has recently launched its first open-access journal, Biomicrofluidics. We asked Mark Cassar, AIP’s manager for journal development, about open access, new technologies and why a physics publisher is interested in biology

October/November 2006

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Outsourcing helps to meet user needs

12 October 2006

There is a trend towards sub-contracting to save money. But Elsevier's chief information officer, Tony Coorey, believes that outsourcing can help publishers offer more to their customers

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Focusing on the users

12 October 2006

Studies of user behaviour are helping to shape current and future e-content platforms, writes Gary Coker of MetaPress

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Users should be at the centre of Web 2.0 plans

12 October 2006

For some, Web 2.0 is the next Big Thing, while others are sceptical about any buzzword worship. But how will this new internet philosophy affect scholarly publishing? Charlie Rapple of Ingenta reports

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Building an information structure in the UK

12 October 2006

Collecting electronic theses, sharing image collections between universities and automatically transferring content from institutional repositories to national libraries are just some of the projects going on in the UK, as Julie Allinson and Roddy MacLeod report

August/September 2006

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Online passes print to STM publishing

12 August 2006

The European online STM information market has seen another year of double-digit growth. Online sales now account for 57 per cent of the total, reports David Mort

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E-books come of age with their readers

12 August 2006

Electronic books are emerging as valuable new resources from STM publishers. Dan Tonkery, director of business development for EBSCO Information Services, gives an overview of some of the materials that are available

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Libraries go beyond wires

12 August 2006

Wireless technology is helping researchers to get more out of their libraries and is even influencing the choice of furniture in the British Library’s café, writes Siân Harris

Interview

Business titles challenge views from STM publishing

12 August 2006

There is plenty of talk about how STM publishers are embracing the online revolution – but they aren’t the only ones following this trend. We asked John Peters, chief executive of Emerald Group Publishing, for a social science perspective. Interview by Siân Harris

June/July 2006

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E-books stir up discussion

12 June 2006

Whether books will follow journals on the same route from print to electronic is up for debate, as Tom Wilkie and Nick Morris found out at the recent London Book Fair

Interview

Academics have access anyway

12 June 2006

Michael Mabe has been Elsevier's director of academic relations for the past seven years, although he has just left to become CEO of the International STM Association. The views expressed here are from his own industry experience.

Interview

Self-archiving should be mandatory

12 June 2006

Stevan Harnad of the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada and the University of Southampton, UK is considered by many to have been one of the founders of the open-access movement. He believes that self-archiving in institutional repositories is the answer to providing access.

April/May 2006

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Visualisation boosts power of STM databases

12 April 2006

Leading STM database providers are starting to offer visualisation tools to help interpret search results. David Mort reveals how this could help existing users to get more from their information and encourage new users

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Partnership tackles archiving challenge

12 April 2006

There is a growing awareness of the need to preserve digital information. Tim Tamminga of Endeavor Information Systems describes how a new partnership with Sun plans to address this issue.

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Demand for integration triggers consolidation

12 April 2006

The changing nature of research resources and the demands of its users are having a knock-on effect on the companies that help libraries to manage this information. Siân Harris discovers OCLC PICA's perspective on the library-management sector

February/March 2006

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Playing a part in technology development

1 February 2006

The wealth of free information on the web is attractive to engineers but Siân Harris discovers that peer-reviewed literature and databases can still have a vital role in the research process

Feature

Library science meets business

1 February 2006

Michael Koenig, professor in the College of Information and Computer Science and Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, USA...

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Users set the agenda

1 February 2006

Providing the information that users want, when and how they want it, were the themes that dominated discussions at the recent Online Information conference. Tom Wilkie and Nick Morris report

December 2005/January 2006

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Industry considers RSS

1 December 2005

Web developers are excited by the way that RSS technology can alert users to new journal articles and other content without them needing to visit dozens of web sites each day but are the users so excited? Industry analyst David Mort investigates

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RFID industry confronts privacy fears

1 December 2005

RFID is becoming a popular way to monitor materials in libraries and elsewhere but the use of this wireless technology has prompted questions about users' privacy. Dr Christian Kern, the head of systems development at Switzerland's Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems does not believe there is any cause for concern

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Consultation helps database development

1 December 2005

With over 500 customers signing up in its first six months Scopus has plenty of reason to be pleased with its abstracting and indexing database. Now, a year after launch, we ask the company's marketing manager Ginny Hendricks why she thinks the project has been successful

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