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October/November 2010

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

August/September 2010

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

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

Feature

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

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

Feature

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

April/May 2010

Feature

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

Feature

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

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

Feature

Communities debate industry

9 April 2010

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

Feature

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

February/March 2010

Feature

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)

Feature

Libraries of the future

15 February 2010

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

December 2009/January 2010

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

Strength in numbers

2 October 2009

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

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

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)

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

June/July 2009

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

Feature

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

April/May 2009

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

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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