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June/July 2012

Feature

Opening up e-book access

7 June 2012

From scholar-led initiatives to commercial publishing programmes, the topic of open-access e-books is emerging from the shadows. Siân Harris investigates

Interview

The need for semantics

7 June 2012

Michael Clarke is executive vice president for product and market development at Silverchair Information Systems

April/May 2012

Feature

Unpacking books

11 April 2012

E-books have matured but questions remain about digital rights, access models and what a scholarly e-book really means today. Interviews by Sian Harris

Feature

Physical sciences need 'collective conversation'

11 April 2012

From astrophysics to nanoscience, a series of case studies casts an investigative lens over changing information practices in the physical sciences. Ellen Collins and Joe McEntee examine the key findings of the studies for publishers, librarians, funding agencies and scientists

Feature

Tool delves into journal experimental details

11 April 2012

A Dublin-based startup has developed a way of extracting insight into laboratory instruments and materials from the experimental sections of journal articles. As Scrazzl launches its first products Sian Harris finds out more

Interview

Digital preservation matters

11 April 2012

Vicky Reich, director of the LOCKSS programme at Stanford University Libraries, and Randy Kiefer, executive director of the CLOCKSS archive, explain why preserving digital content is a challenge that needs to be tackled, especially as this content becomes more dynamic

February/March 2012

Interview

Integrating business models

9 February 2012

Sven Fund is managing director of De Gruyter. We asked him about the company's recent purchase of Versita, open-access plans and internationalisation of content

Feature

Research resources move into the classroom

9 February 2012

The boundaries between the primary sources used for research and the materials for teaching are being broken down. Seth Cayley of Cengage reveals the unexpected level of interest in the Times Digital Archive for teaching

December 2011/January 2012

Interview

A semantic approach

8 December 2011

TEMIS has recently launched the latest version of its Luxid product for semantic enrichment. Eric Brégand, chief executive officer of the company, tells us how this can help publishers

Feature

Access, review and changing brains

8 December 2011

Developments in the internet are enabling new approaches to access, peer review and even changing the ways our brains work. Sian Harris reports back from the STM Frankfurt meeting

Feature

Integrate, not separate, social media

8 December 2011

In 2006 when Charlie Rapple last wrote for us about Web 2.0, the term was new and rather mysterious. Five years on, it's become part of the strategy of many scholarly publishers. She shares some tips about how to make best use of what this technology offers

October/November 2011

Feature

Collaboration drives research innovation

30 September 2011

Science has traditionally relied on the sharing of knowledge and ideas, but now collaboration across borders and disciplines is building a new foundation for accelerating scientific discovery, writes Elsevier's Rafael Sidi

Interview

A decade of innovation

30 September 2011

As we celebrate 10 years of Research Information, here's a look back at a few of the many things experts have told us over our early years (all details of products, companies and people are described as they were at the time of original publication in Research Information)

Feature

Store for safekeeping

30 September 2011

The path to digital preservation has been peppered with problems, but progress has been rapid, reports Rebecca Pool

Feature

A place for everything?

30 September 2011

While the last decade has seen researchers warm to open-access digital repositories, whole-hearted adoption is some way off yet, reports Rebecca Pool

Feature

Making knowledge accessible

30 September 2011

Libraries have been around for a long time but technology has changed how we access them. Friedel Grant of The European Library looks at some of the things on offer from digital libraries and what the future will hold

Feature

Licensing in an online world

30 September 2011

Copyright is a complex topic and has become more complex in a digital world. Christopher Kenneally of Copyright Clearance Center considers ways that authors and publishers can communicate and protect their rights

Feature

The problem with measuring Twitter

30 September 2011

With social media finding its way into every aspect of our lives, it is becoming increasingly interesting to find what it says about the value of research. It's not a simple process, however, as David Stuart reveals

August/September 2011

Feature

Passing on the knowledge

17 August 2011

Lenny Rhine teaches researchers in developing countries how to use the wealth of free resources made available through the Research4Life programmes. Sian Harris found out about some of his latest activities

Interview

Unlocking unstructured data

17 August 2011

With unstructured information volumes growing fast, John Pomeroy, vice president - Europe of MarkLogic believes it is important for organisations to use it to gain new insight

Feature

An exciting mix

17 August 2011

Alicia Wise has been a researcher, worked with JISC in negotiating access deals and now works for Elsevier. She shares her experiences of access to research resources in these different roles

Feature

Anticipating OA growth

17 August 2011

Jason Wilde of Nature Publishing Group reveals some of the challenges of the open-access publishing model for journals with high rejection rates

Feature

Mobile access gathers momentum

17 August 2011

Apps and mobile versions of websites are springing up everywhere in the scholarly publishing industry. Publishers and library management system suppliers reveal some of the latest trends. Interviews by Rebecca Pool and Sian Harris

Feature

A family firm

17 August 2011

Knut Dorn has announced his retirement later this year as senior managing partner and director of sales for the bookseller and subscription agent Harrassowitz. He told Sian Harris about the company's remarkable history

June/July 2011

Feature

Rethinking publishing

14 June 2011

Siân Harris reports back from the UKSG meeting held in Harrogate in April on some of the expectations of researchers of the role of publishers

Feature

Discussions reveal e-book trends

14 June 2011

Siân Harris spoke about e-book trends at the E-books and E-content 2011 meeting at UCL in London in May. She reveals some of the things she and other speakers discussed there and at the recent UKSG meeting

Feature

Thinking globally

14 June 2011

Addressing the information needs of libraries and researchers around the world is no small task. Siân Harris asked three publishers about the benefits and challenges of being international

Feature

Changing language can help reach global audience

14 June 2011

Disseminating research findings for an international audience raises the issue of publishing language. Siân Harris spoke to some journal editors about why they switched from their native languages to English

Interview

Serving authors and readers

14 June 2011

In January YS Chi, chairman of Elsevier's management committee, became president of the International Publishers Association. He is optimistic about the role of publishers

April/May 2011

Feature

Bringing e-book resources together

7 April 2011

Last year the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) published a study into scholarly books carried out by consultant Laura Cox. Among the many findings, the study revealed that aggregators and e-book vendors were the favoured channels to market for publishers, although publishers' own platforms and those of their hosting company were also well used. Sian Harris asked some e-book providers about the role of aggregators, their relationships with publishers and the business models being used

Feature

Putting research data into the cloud

7 April 2011

David Utting of JISC shares how £12.5 million from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is being invested to give opportunities to UK researchers to store, manage and use their data using cloud computing

Feature

Opening library data

7 April 2011

Libraries generate and hold large amounts of data. David Stuart looks at the potential benefits of sharing and allowing people to innovate with it

Feature

Discovery services sift through expert resources

7 April 2011

Researchers and librarians around the world are embracing discovery services. Sian Harris talked to three providers of these tools to find out why they are becoming so popular with libraries and their users

February/March 2011

Interview

Working with changing patterns

4 February 2011

Researchers have the same core content needs as they had in the past but the way they use content is changing, says Mary Sauer-Games, senior vice president, market development at ProQuest

Feature

'Libraries should open up data'

4 February 2011

Data was one of the buzz words at the Online Information exhibition and conference held in London in December, Siân Harris reports on discussions about linking library data

Feature

Rethinking the journal article

4 February 2011

Elsevier is extending its 'article of the future' concept. Siân Harris found out about the plans and challenges from IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg of the company at Online Information

Feature

Patent resources take on Asian challenge

4 February 2011

As the number of patents filed by Asian countries grows rapidly, researchers elsewhere in the world are struggling to find, understand and work with this information. Siân Harris finds out how some companies are helping to meet this need

Feature

From librarian to information consultant

4 February 2011

Modern information professionals are required to be information controllers, organisers, advisers and consultants, as Hervé Basset reports from the Pharma-Bio-Med conference

December 2010/January 2011

Feature

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

Feature

Reinventing reference

25 November 2010

Putting reference titles online can take publishers a long way from the traditional concept of a book, as Tom Wilkie discovered when he spoke to Elsevier's Suzanne BeDell

Interview

Experts give new slant on peer review

25 November 2010

Sarah Greene has just been appointed editor-in-chief of Faculty of 1000 (F1000) as well as editor of The Scientist magazine. We ask her how post-publication peer review helps researchers guide scientists to the most important work

Feature

The information battle

25 November 2010

Publishers, libraries and researchers need to work together to address government access requirements, according to discussions at the annual ALPSP conference, writes Sian Harris

Feature

The future of research in tough times

25 November 2010

'Efficiency must not come at the cost of effectiveness' was the message coming out of the recent JISC research conference, write Matthew Dovey and Nicola Yeeles of JISC

Feature

Pressure over prices

25 November 2010

The proposed boycott of Nature Publishing Group by the University of California illustrates the plight of cash-strapped libraries worldwide. Rebecca Pool looks for an answer

Feature

The start of an adventure

25 November 2010

October saw the fourth global Open Access Week. Heather Joseph and Jennifer McLennan of SPARC report on some of the things going on around the world during the week

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