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October/November 2010

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Understanding tomorrow's needs

23 September 2010

Charles Hutchings of JISC and Joanna Newman of the British Library explain what a new study is revealing about the way young researchers work and how they can be supported

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Researchers are ready to develop search applications

23 September 2010

Judson Dunham of Elsevier reveals the results of a recent survey into how researchers want to search for information and data

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Unique challenges shape society plans

23 September 2010

A BMJ-hosted symposium in June saw decision-makers from a range of biomedical society publishers discussing the future of society journals publishing, writes Charlie Rapple

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China presents challenges and opportunities

23 September 2010

In the August/September issue of Research Information we asked a range of people about the needs and challenges of Chinese researchers accessing information and communicating their research results. Now, Sian Harris asks what this means for Western publishers working in China, and for Chinese publishers wanting to move into international markets

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RDF triples make web connections

23 September 2010

Adding code to web pages that shows how resources link together can help people find and use information and data, writes David Stuart

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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

Interview

New life for old resources

23 September 2010

Digitising and tagging resources helps researchers find what they need, says Alastair Horne, innovations manager of Cambridge University Press

August/September 2010

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Digging into data in new ways

12 August 2010

New large-scale data analysis techniques of many different types of data sets can give researchers new insight, writes Alastair Dunning

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Preserving research for the future

12 August 2010

Cash and a lack of responsibility hinder the progress of digital preservation initiatives, reports Rebecca Pool

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Librarians and researchers network online

12 August 2010

It is still early days for librarians networking with users online, but there are plenty of potential benefits if librarians and their organisations get it right, writes David Stuart

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East meets West as research grows

12 August 2010

In the first of a two-part look at publishing in China, Siân Harris asks people involved in research and in supplying research content in China about the challenges for finding out and communicating research results

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Making the case for innovation

12 August 2010

Collaboration on organising and sharing information helps the research community to innovate, says Sarah Porter, of JISC

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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

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The Swiss Army knife for information professionals

12 August 2010

Ten years after its first beta version, Microsoft's SharePoint is now gathering momentum in organisations around the world. Herve Basset reviews what this means for information professionals

Interview

Working together to discover information

12 August 2010

Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform is now 10 years old. We ask Rafael Sidi, the company's VP of product development, how things have changed over that time and what the future holds

June/July 2010

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Big-deal packages squeeze recession-hit libraries

10 June 2010

More funding cuts and rising subscription prices mean librarians worldwide have yet to see the worst of the recession, reports Rebecca Pool from this year's UKSG conference in Edinburgh

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Untangling Europe's digital rights

10 June 2010

Tom Wilkie reports back from the London Book Fair, where rights management was a hot topic for discussion

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Research in an 'app'

10 June 2010

With new scholarly information products for smartphones being announced almost daily, Sian Harris looks at why this delivery approach is becoming so popular with information providers and users

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Networking sites help align publishers with customers

10 June 2010

Academic publishers are starting to take advantage of Web 2.0 tools to interact with their customers. David Stuart looks at how two publishers are using social networking

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Project guides OA development in humanities and social science

10 June 2010

Saskia C J de Vries reports on a new initiative to explore and promote open-access monographs across Europe

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Partnerships enhance scientific discovery

10 June 2010

Good interaction between published papers and raw data can speed scientific discovery, write IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg (left) and Judson Dunham, who are involved in creating such links at Elsevier

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Librarians embrace e-books

10 June 2010

E-books are growing in popularity amongst librarians and library users, writes Tom Wilkie from London Book Fair

Interview

Integrating e-books and searches

10 June 2010

Over recent months there have been several big announcements from EBSCO, including the purchase of e-book aggregator NetLibrary from OCLC and the launch of EBSCO Discovery Service. We asked Tim Collins, president and general manager of EBSCO Publishing, to tell us more about the company's plans

April/May 2010

Interview

Sharing and innovating

9 April 2010

We ask Victor Henning, one of the founders and directors of Mendeley, about the reference management start-up

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Communities debate industry

9 April 2010

Siân Harris discovers how Elsevier's online product-development communities are encouraging networking and discussions about scholarly publishing

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New grant supports open-access publishing in the Netherlands

9 April 2010

The Dutch higher education sector is convinced of the need for open access, writes Annemiek van der Kuil of SURFshare in a report from a recent seminar in the Netherlands

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Open to debate

9 April 2010

The humanities and social sciences have been reluctant to adopt open-access publishing, but change is afoot, reports Rebecca Pool

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Why e-books mean business

9 April 2010

After the two-year long e-book observatory project, JISC's Caren Milloy reports on a new project to investigate the best business models for e-books and their potential impact on print sales

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Device independence and mobility help e-book growth

9 April 2010

Siân Harris asks some of the people involved in publishing, licensing and distributing electronic books about the latest trends in devices, formats and business models

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Publishing partnerships can help society journals

9 April 2010

Bob Campbell of Wiley-Blackwell reveals how the role of society publishers has changed and why many are turning to larger commercial partners

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Assessing online usage

9 April 2010

Joachim Schöpfel and Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri report back from a recent symposium on assessing online usage of academic resources held in Lille, France

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Embracing the semantic web

9 April 2010

David Stuart reports back from a meeting in London to explore the opportunities of linking data on the web

February/March 2010

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Service enables applications to search journals

15 February 2010

In October 2009, Nature Publishing Group (NPG) launched a new service to allow remote searching of the nature.com platform via nature.com OpenSearch. We ask Tony Hammond, application architect at NPG, what the new service is all about

Interview

Finding meaning from chaos

15 February 2010

Web technologies offer researchers new ways to find and use information but publishers need to innovate to help them, believes John Haynes, vice president of publishing at the American Institute of Physics (AIP)

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Libraries of the future

15 February 2010

Siân Harris reports back from the Online Information conference that was held in London in December

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E-books face bright future

15 February 2010

Discussions about the potential of electronic books were enthusiastic despite near-term challenges at the recent Online Information show in London, as Tom Wilkie and Siân Harris discovered

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Virtual resources support 'research on demand'

15 February 2010

Data sharing on virtual servers can aid collaboration and help universities cut costs and carbon emissions, writes JISC's James Farnhill

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Web 3.0 promises change for libraries

15 February 2010

The latest developments in web technology will undoubtedly continue to
affect libraries. David Stuart looks at some of the technology on the horizon

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Fittest will survive in a semantic world

15 February 2010

The survival of traditional publishers in a rapidly-evolving environment will depend on their ability to identify what their customers most need, and keep delivering this, writes Melinda Kenneway of TBI Communications

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Data is at the heart of new science ecosystem

15 February 2010

Open data and open APIs offer huge opportunities for research and innovation, writes Elsevier's Rafael Sidi

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Financial history provides modern insight

15 February 2010

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has launched a digital archive of the Financial Times newspaper. Siân Harris found out what newspaper archives offer to researchers

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Sciyo introduces usage-based author royalties

15 February 2010

Jelena Katic of Sciyo reveals why the company will be paying authors when their open-access monographs are downloaded

December 2009/January 2010

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Industry tackles polarisation in access debate

26 November 2009

At the ALPSP annual conference in September Fred Dylla of American Institute of Physics revealed how a new group from across the industry is seeking to find common ground in the open access stand-off, writes Siân Harris

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Data-sharing culture has changed

26 November 2009

Simon Hodson of JISC examines how technology and funding policies have changed the ways that researchers share data

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Untangling digital rights

26 November 2009

The possibilities that networked electronic resources offer to researchers are extensive but do they know what they are allowed to do with the content available to them? Siân Harris and John Murphy ask about the challenges of licensing and rights management

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Programming skills could transform librarians' roles

26 November 2009

To keep pace with information changes and the needs of users, librarians need some programming skills, argues David Stuart

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Conference brings OA community together

26 November 2009

Caroline Sutton reports back from the First Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing held recently in Sweden

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We need to convince the taxpayer

26 November 2009

Science communication should go beyond peer-reviewed journals and conferences if the public are to engage with scientific developments, argues Jonathon Rees

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Information integration may not be enough

26 November 2009

Integrating information in academic libraries is very important but some users don't know how to find this information in the first place. Credo Reference is taking on the challenge of enticing users to their libraries' resources, writes John Dove

Interview

Marketing to readers

26 November 2009

Jacek Ciesielski, general manager of Poland-based publisher Versita believes that article-level marketing helps attract good papers and boost journal impact factors

October/November 2009

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Good data about content reduces user frustration

2 October 2009

Charlie Rapple (right) reports on proposals to improve the accuracy and completeness of the data supplied to knowledge bases

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The slow rise of e-books

2 October 2009

Arnaud Pellé of Emerald Group Publishing takes a look at the history of e-books and what their future holds

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Web 2.0 fails to excite today's researchers

2 October 2009

With the current enthusiasm for anything '2.0', David Stuart asks what it will take to change the way that academics work

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Librarians still have vital role in the Web 2.0 era

2 October 2009

Information professional Hervé Basset shares his observations about the role of Web 2.0 technology in science intelligence in industry

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Strength in numbers

2 October 2009

John Murphy discovers how HighWire provides technology and community to more than 140 publishers

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Physicists get new research network

2 October 2009

Siân Harris finds out about a new social network to help physicists work together and share information

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Personalisation allows researchers to create online bibliographies

2 October 2009

Lisa Jeskins and Bethan Ruddock describe a free tool that enables users to search the UK's national and academic libraries

Interview

Evolution not revolution

2 October 2009

Olaf Ernst, Springer's president of eProduct management and innovation, talks about some of the new developments in electronic publishing

August/September 2009

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CUP launches digital archive

27 July 2009

John Murphy finds out about the challenges that Cambridge University Press (CUP) faced in digitising its complete journal archive

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Published data needs standards

27 July 2009

Accessing original datasets is becoming increasingly important in research today but finding this data can be a challenge. Toby Green, head of publishing for OECD, argues the case for standards to help researchers find and cite published datasets and tables

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Springer collection returns to its roots

27 July 2009

Renate Bayaz of Springer explains some of the challenges involved in moving the company's large historical collection to the Central and Regional Library in Berlin

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Tight budgets affect scholarly information market

27 July 2009

David Mort gives his annual insight into the European STM information market and the effects of reduced funding

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Community curation helps chemical information

27 July 2009

Antony Williams explains why the Royal Society of Chemistry has acquired chemical information search tool ChemSpider

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Switzerland builds next-generation metacatalogue

27 July 2009

Four languages, five metadata standards, 13 OPACS, four federated search platforms and more than 800 libraries... Tobias Viegener reveals the challenges in building a nationwide search platform for Switzerland

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International body promotes digital libraries

27 July 2009

Ingeborg Verheul describes the work of IFLA and how the organisation is helping librarians work together in digitisation and digital libraries

Interview

Finland's information backbone

27 July 2009

Kai Ekholm has been director of the National Library of Finland since 2001. He is also chair of IFLA's Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)

June/July 2009

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Marketing can help publishers weather the recession

20 May 2009

Charlie Rapple reveals the challenges and opportunities of marketing in a recession and how a new web-based community could help

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Study reveals e-textbook successes

20 May 2009

Sian Harris reports back from London Book Fair on the latest in JISC's e-Book Observatory project

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Partners in open access

20 May 2009

John Murphy finds out why start-up company Co-Action Publishing has chosen the open-access model

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Listening to researchers is crucial to information planning

20 May 2009

For the information professional working in the medical world, demands are intense but cash is tight. Rebecca Pool talks to GE Healthcare's Tracey Evans about its Knowledge Centre

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Helping to do right with rights

20 May 2009

Mark Bide, project director of ACAP, explains how publishers can make their rights and those of their authors clear to search engines and why he believes such efforts are required

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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

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Publishers relax author rights agreements

20 May 2009

The internet is changing the ways that publishers negotiate rights with authors. Sian Harris reports from the London Book Fair

Interview

Licences are valuable tools

20 May 2009

Alicia Wise, chief executive of the UK's Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) and also on secondment to the Publishers Association, explains why licences are particularly valuable now that so much content is digital

April/May 2009

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Proof in preservation

16 April 2009

SAGE has recently released two journals to preservation initiatives. Clive Parry reveals what this experience has taught the scholarly publishing industry

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Digitisation helps future proof Dutch literature

16 April 2009

The Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren, DBNL) is partnering with an Asia-based conversion and digitisation services provider, SPi Technologies to build one of the largest online repositories of Dutch literature. We asked Rene van Stipriaan, editor-in-chief of DBNL, why the resulting website is becoming one of the most popular sites on Dutch literature and is attracting visitors from all walks of life

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Redefining e-books

16 April 2009

There's little doubt that e-books are a hot topic for publishers and librarians. Sian Harris asked some people involved with e-books in different ways what the situation is like at the moment and what they predict for the future

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Scientists lead the push for open data sharing

16 April 2009

Biologist Cameron Neylon describes a community that is changing the way scientists communicate by making their data publicly available on the web

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Reference tool helps organise scholarly resources

16 April 2009

Credo Reference allows users to search many authoritative reference works with a single tool, writes John Murphy

Interview

Simplicity and complexity

16 April 2009

CABI, which is owned by the governments of 42 countries, will celebrate its 100th birthday next year. We asked Carol McNamara, executive director for commercial activities, about what the organisation has seen in the past and its plans for the future

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