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August/September 2015

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Repository revolution

30 July 2015

As institutional repositories evolve, library publishers and university presses worldwide are using the systems to publish research papers and more. What will be the impact on traditional publishing models? Rebecca Pool investigates

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From documents to data

30 July 2015

The rapid growth of digital information has led to rising interest in new approaches to information retrieval and discovery, writes David Stuart

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Global challenges, local knowledge

30 July 2015

From the environment to gender studies, there is plenty of research taking place across Africa into issues that impact local people. Sian Harris looks at some of the challenges and opportunities for the continent's researchers

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Female researchers

30 July 2015

Researchers face many challenges but in some places these challenges can be more pronounced for female researchers because of additional cultural and other pressures. Four researchers who joined INASP staff at the recent Gender Summit Africa meeting in South Africa share their stories

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African pride

30 July 2015

South African journal publisher NISC is proud of its strapline "Publishing Africa's Research", says managing director Mike Schramm

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Online resource enhances Botswana research

30 July 2015

Naniki Maphakwane, library manager at Botswana College of Distance and Open Learning, describes how ProQuest has been working with the Botswana Libraries Consortium to provide valuable research tools

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Transition time for HSS

30 July 2015

Sharon Davies discovers some of the recent developments, challenges and emerging trends around Humanities and Social Sciences research

June/July 2015

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Long live the MOOC

1 June 2015

As digital technologies re-shape traditional teaching methods in higher education, the MOOC is finding its feet, reports Rebecca Pool

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Rising metrics need to go deeper

1 June 2015

Interest in new metrics to demonstrate the impact of research has grown rapidly over recent years, and shows no sign of slowing down,writes David Stuart

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Scholarly searching

1 June 2015

In the world of academic publishing, what does discovery really mean?
Seven key industry figures offer their opinions

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Information should become 'central to global development'

1 June 2015

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) deputy general secretary Stuart Hamilton will be speaking at this year's CILIP Conference. Here he talks about how information will shape global development goals and how information professionals the world over can shape their communities

April/May 2015

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EuropeanaTech 2015: Review

27 March 2015

In February, professionals from the cultural heritage and tech communities gathered in Paris at the National Library of France for this year's EuropeanaTech conference. Imogen Greenhalgh and Gregory Markus report

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Open Data Spotlight for researchers

27 March 2015

Digital Science recently hosted the first in a series of Open Data Spotlight events. Here, we find out what open data means for researchers. By Nicko Goncharoff, director of publisher relations and head of knowledge discovery

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Enhanced connections

27 March 2015

The last few months has seen a range of events in the world of scholarly publishing. Here, we catch up with some of the key discussions

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Digital desires

27 March 2015

With libraries worldwide adopting more and more e-books, publishers are getting to grips with giving readers what they want. Rebecca Pool reports

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Platform for a revolution

27 March 2015

Technology plays a key role in how we search and use information. Sharon Davies finds out about some of the recent developments, challenges and emerging trends surrounding publishing platforms

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Olympia calling for London Book Fair

27 March 2015

The London Book Fair will take place at London's Olympia from 14 to 16 April, with a packed programme of events in the academic STM and professional publishing theatre

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Is there a library-sized hole in the internet?

27 March 2015

David Weinberger is senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and has been instrumental in the development of ideas about the impact of the web. Shortly before his recent keynote presentation at OCLC's EMEA Regional Council Meeting in Florence, he spoke with Sarah Bartlett

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Bridging the research knowledge divide

27 March 2015

Sue Corbett is executive director of INASP, an international development charity that supports developing world researchers through information access and availability, training in research writing; support of indigenous publishing activities and training policy makers in the use of research in policy

February/March 2015

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Still a long way to go for OA?

2 February 2015

Lorraine Estelle, executive director for digital resources and divisional CEO of Jisc Collections, considers the costs associated with the spread of open access

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Peer review under pressure?

2 February 2015

Recent years have seen significant challenges for the world of peer review, with increasing pressures on editors tasked with finding trusted and reliable reviewers - and growing concerns about the incidence of peer review fraud and retractions resulting from this. Here, five companies developing editorial and peer review systems tell us how they are facing the future

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Preparing for impact

2 February 2015

Global use of institutional repositories is on the rise - but the trend is not without its challenges, writes Nadya Anscombe

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What`s in a name?

2 February 2015

Delegates at IPI Confex will hear about the latest efforts to standardise at least one part of the patent application process. Tim Gillett reports

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Balancing money and mission

2 February 2015

After a career at Oxford University Press, Mandy Hill has "switched sides", and is now managing director for academic publishing at Cambridge University Press. We caught up with her at Frankfurt Book Fair

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Working together at the tipping point

2 February 2015

We are moving towards an educational era of choice over tradition, convenience over perfection, self-service over predefined options, writes Fiona Leslie, EMEA marketing manager at OCLC

December 2014/January 2015

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Starting a dialogue with publishers

12 December 2014

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

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Video enhances publications

12 December 2014

Nicola Davies looks at the benefits and challenges of including video in scholarly resources and explores the future of this approach

October/November 2014

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Debunking the MOOC myth

26 September 2014

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

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Bright future with library clouds

26 September 2014

Sian Harris explores how the growth and improved accessibility of the cloud is presenting a wealth of exciting opportunities for research libraries

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Eyeing up the future

26 September 2014

The Frankfurt Book Fair is a time when publishers and publisher services companies tend to showcase their latest developments and news and these are often in the area of publishing platforms. From shifts towards mobile devices and decisions about changing technology to trends in e-books and the launch of new database platforms, companies tell us about some of their latest trends

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A place for citation data

26 September 2014

The topic of metrics for scholarly impact can seem highly polarised but there might be fewer tensions between traditional and alternative than there first appear, writes Sian Harris

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Acquisition opens up altmetrics options

26 September 2014

It is nearly a year since EBSCO bought Plum Analytics. Sian Harris asks what has happened since the acquisition and what it means for the role of altmetrics in analysing research

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Boosting transparency

26 September 2014

In September Louis Culot became chief executive officer of BioData, a Digital Science company. We ask him about convergence between experimental processes and research information

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Journal hijackers target science and open access

26 September 2014

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

AugustSeptember2014

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OA interviews: Juliane Ritt, Springer

6 August 2014

With the raft of policies and mandates that impact researchers and their institutions Sian Harris asks a range of publishers and publishing services companies about their approaches to open access

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OA interviews: Kamila Markram, Frontiers

6 August 2014

With the raft of policies and mandates that impact researchers and their institutions Sian Harris asks a range of publishers and publishing services companies about their approaches to open access

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OA interviews: Dave Ross, SAGE

6 August 2014

With the raft of policies and mandates that impact researchers and their institutions Sian Harris asks a range of publishers and publishing services companies about their approaches to open access

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OA interviews: Nicola Gulley, IOP Publishing

6 August 2014

With the raft of policies and mandates that impact researchers and their institutions Sian Harris asks a range of publishers and publishing services companies about their approaches to open access

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OA interviews: Georgina Gurnhill, PeerJ

6 August 2014

With the raft of policies and mandates that impact researchers and their institutions Sian Harris asks a range of publishers and publishing services companies about their approaches to open access

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OA interviews: Alicia Wise, Elsevier

6 August 2014

With the raft of policies and mandates that impact researchers and their institutions Sian Harris asks a range of publishers and publishing services companies about their approaches to open access

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OA interviews: Mark Patterson, eLife

6 August 2014

With the raft of policies and mandates that impact researchers and their institutions Sian Harris asks a range of publishers and publishing services companies about their approaches to open access

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The power of semantics

6 August 2014

In recent years scholarly publishers have increasingly looked to add value to the content they put online. Sian Harris asks providers of semantic enrichment tools and services how publishers can enhance their content

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Predatory practices pose problems for new publishing models

6 August 2014

New developments in technology and business are frequently followed by attempts to abuse the system. Librarian Jeffrey Beall from University of Colorado Denver, USA, uses his blog to track and report on journals and publishers that abuse open access

June/July 2014

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Making the most of metadata

13 June 2014

Ed Pentz has been executive director of CrossRef since it began in 2000. We ask him about what the organisation has done so far and its future plans

April/May 2014

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Experimenting with e-books

2 April 2014

E-books have been around for a while now but publishers are still experimenting with different formats, interactive content, open access and business models, writes Nadya Anscombe

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Opportunities for innovation

2 April 2014

Matthew Cockerill co-founded BioMed Central and was its managing director until the end of 2013. He is currently working on an unannounced internet startup

February/March 2014

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Carving new roles in the library

27 January 2014

Many discussions at the Online Information 2013 conference focused on the changes and opportunities for information professionals, writes Sian Harris

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The path to integration

27 January 2014

Last May, ProQuest bought e-book aggregator EBL. Sian Harris finds out about the company's plans to bring this and other businesses more closely together

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Algorithms help assign reviewers more quickly

27 January 2014

Automating allocation of reviewers can speed up the review process - but the information about the reviewers' interests need to be good. Sian Harris speaks to the co-founder and CEO of open-access publisher Frontiers

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Patent power

27 January 2014

We ask Ann Chapman, co-founder of Minesoft, about patent information and 10 years of the PatBase patent database

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Preserving global scholarship

27 January 2014

As preservation professionals meet the rising demands of traditional publishers, can they also attend to the needs of riskier ventures, asks Rebecca Pool

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