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June/July 2017

Feature

The measure of metrics

28 June 2017

Change is constant in scholarly publishing; nowhere more than in the world of metrics. Here, four industry leaders offer Tim Gillett some predictions for the future

April / May 2017

Feature

Exposing peer review

28 March 2017

From pilots to practice, more and more publishers are warming to open peer review, reports Rebecca Pool

Feature

Picture perfect

24 March 2017

Cartoon abstracts are a very effective way to bring research to life, writes Daniel Pullin

February/March2017

Feature

Until the bitter end?

6 March 2017

Subscription agents: Rebecca Pool asks who will survive the seismic shifts in scholarly publishing circles

December 2016/January 2017

Interview

C is for collaboration

1 December 2016

Steve Arlington is president of the Pistoia Alliance – a global, not-for-profit alliance of life science companies, vendors, publishers, and academic groups

Feature

Life through a lens

1 December 2016

At Frankfurt Book Fair, Research Information heard claims that the use of video in scholarly publishing is ‘hockey-sticking’. Tim Gillett zooms in on the action

Feature

Dare to share?

1 December 2016

From clarity to confusion, Rebecca Pool looks at the highs and lows of data sharing in scholarly publishing

Analysis and opinion

'A software geek at heart'

12 October 2016

There are a growing number of new tools and services available to support academics throughout the research cycle. Here, Emily Marchant from Cambridge University Press speaks to Matias Piipari, the founder of an online writing tool called Manuscripts, which is designed specifically for the authoring of academic texts

October/November 2016

Interview

Gaining altitude

11 October 2016

After learning to fly a plane, and then teaching German business executives to speak English, London Info International’s Philip Ditchfield also worked in pharma and publishing sales

Feature

Revealing the silver lining

11 October 2016

For academic libraries, the future is cloud-based. Here, Scott Livingston, OCLC’s executive director for market strategy, shares his outlook – while we look at a new community project to develop a cloud-based library services platform

Feature

Alternative assessment

11 October 2016

As the scholarly publishing world adopts altmetrics, the ways in which the data is used are developing fast, reports Rebecca Pool

Feature

Dealing with diversity

11 October 2016

Publishing platforms are the true drivers of digital content within the scholarly industry. Tim Gillett gets up close

August/September 2016

Feature

London calling

1 August 2016

The scholarly publishing community will descend on the ExCeL Centre for a two-day event in December, writes Clive Snell

Feature

Open access: at what cost?

1 August 2016

As scholarly publishing edges closer to open access, industry players are devising radical ways to cut costs. Rebecca Pool reports

June/July 2016

Feature

A brave new world

27 May 2016

Is discoverability ready to take on the challenges of interdisciplinary research, data diversity and more? Rebecca Pool finds out

April/May 2016

Feature

Taming Twitter

24 March 2016

As the number of social media users sky-rockets, can researchers catch the data fallout? Rebecca Pool finds out

Feature

Share and share alike?

24 March 2016

At the 11th International APE Conference, a prestigious industry panel discussed whether the academic sharing economy adds value to the scholarly ecosystem. Tim Gillett reports

Interview

World-class ambitions

24 March 2016

After 20 years in financial services and the IT sector Paul Feldman is now chief executive of Jisc, the UK higher, further education and skills sectors' not-for-profit organisation for digital services and solutions

February/March 2016

Feature

What's next for peer review?

28 January 2016

Six industry figures give their take on recent developments in the world of peer review, and some predictions for the years ahead

December 2015/January 2016

Feature

Getting the measure

27 November 2015

Interest in bibliometric data in the library community is probably growing more rapidly now than at any other time in its history, writes David Stuart

Feature

Smoothing the workflow

27 November 2015

Content databases are continually evolving to support research libraries and researchers, writes Sharon Davies

Feature

A different design

27 November 2015

The relentless rise of mobile device use in scholarly publishing is triggering platform developers to review website design, says Rebecca Pool

Interview

A belief in collaboration

27 November 2015

WIth a background in mathematics and an early career developing software applications, Ella Balagula now leads the Engineering and Technology Solutions business within Elsevier's R&D Solutions group

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