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December 2008 / January 2009

October/November 2008

Feature

Online access changes citation patterns

13 October 2008

A US study reveals that fewer papers are being cited than in the days before the internet, while another concludes that making articles open access does not change their citation count. Rebecca Pool and Siân Harris report.

Feature

Doing right with rights

13 October 2008

If copyright isn't too complicated, then users are happy to comply, discovered John Murphy, when he spoke to the USA-based Copyright Clearance Center

Feature

From search to discovery

13 October 2008

Mark Johns, president of USA-based Littlearth, investigates different ways of searching for information and argues that a 'discovery engine' approach is sometimes best

Interview

Preserving for future access

13 October 2008

Launched in 2005, Portico has now attracted an impressive number of publisher and library partners. Executive director Eileen Fenton tells us why preserving information is important

August / September 2008

Interview

Chasing the long tail

11 August 2008

Arie Jongejan, chief executive officer, and Thomas Snyder, chief commercial officer, of Swets talk about how scholarly information needs are changing

Feature

Repository increases visibility

11 August 2008

The Spanish National Research Council has just launched an institutional repository. Agnes Ponsati and Pablo de Castro explain why and how they went about it

Feature

Robotics speed up book digitisation

11 August 2008

By the end of this year, 20 million pages of the British Library's 19th century books will be available electronically. Siân Harris visited the library to see how it is being done

June / July 2008

Feature

Taking the first steps towards institutional open access

3 June 2008

At the start of this year, Italy's Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS) of Rome announced an open-access archiving policy. Elisabetta Poltronieri and Paola De Castro of ISS's Publishing Activities Unit explain what this will means to the institute's researchers and the wider research community

Feature

Patent information providers take on Asian challenge

3 June 2008

Researchers in western companies want to know what their competitors are doing but it can be a challenge when many of those competitors are in countries like China or Korea. Siân Harris finds out how patent information providers are tackling the language barrier

Feature

Addressing changing demands on academic publishers

3 June 2008

As more different types of research resources become available electronically, Atypon's Nash Pal argues that multiproduct platforms are the best way to ensure efficient access to all the information that researchers need

April / May 2008

Feature

E-books are here to stay

15 April 2008

Electronic books are gaining popularity, especially amongst researchers, but there are still challenges ahead, write Tom Wilkie and Sian Harris

Feature

Task force takes on data preservation challenge

15 April 2008

Industry representatives are working together to help ensure that future generations can access today's digital information,writes Bob Murphy of OCLC, which is one of the members of the new preservation task force

Interview

Chemistry is core to science

15 April 2008

Brian Crawford started his career as a biochemist so it made sense that, having gone into scholarly publishing, he eventually found his way to the American Chemical Society. We asked him about his role as
president of ACS Publications

February/March 2008

Feature

Web evolution changes information access

14 February 2008

The changes that the internet has brought to libraries have been dramatic. Now, the web itself is changing. Sian Harris reports back from Online Information about the implications of this for libraries and for the information they provide

Feature

New resources help engineers

14 February 2008

Roddy MacLeod gives an overview of the latest engineering research information in 2007 and looks at what 2008 promises to offer in this discipline

Interview

Making sense of data

14 February 2008

The OECD has just launched a service that allows users to navigate across all its databases. Enrico Giovannini, chief statistician (pictured left), and Toby Green, head of publishing (pictured right), explain why

December/January 2007

Feature

Helping RSS help researchers

17 December 2007

Roddy MacLeod reveals how universities, publishers and funding bodies have come together to improve how researchers are informed of the latest journal content.

Feature

Biomedical research resources get personal

17 December 2007

From the traditional search and discovery tools to the latest in social networks, there's a host of online resources available to bioscience researchers. But do they actually want them, asks Rebecca Pool

Feature

Document sharing speeds up research

17 December 2007

Tino Hannay & Hilary Spencer of Nature Publishing Group explain why this publishing company has launched a free preprint service for biologists, chemists and earth scientists

Feature

Backfile reveals biomedical history

17 December 2007

The EMBASE bibliographic database from Elsevier is one of the latest products to have its whole archive digitised. Magdaleine Margaritis, marketing manager of the company's Pharma Development Group, tells Sian Harris why

Interview

Different libraries, same issues

17 December 2007

At the end of 2007 Ian Snowley, director of academic services at the University of London Research Library Services, will end his time as president of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). We ask him about his experiences since he took this role earlier this year

October/November 2007

Feature

Open-access debate gets personal

19 October 2007

Tensions between advocates and opponents of open access increase with the launch of a new partnership that is aimed at protecting the integrity of scientific research, reports Nadya Anscombe

Feature

Taking the web seriously

19 October 2007

Isidro Aguillo explains how university websites can be compared and why this gives meaningful insight into the institutions research output

August/September 2007

Feature

Keeping independence

17 August 2007

Siân Harris investigates a project to bring down the barriers to electronic publishing for small, not-for-profit publishers.

Feature

Preservation requires planning and maintenance

17 August 2007

In the last issue of Research Information we looked at the processes of ingesting, managing and storing digital information to help organisations preserve data. The next challenges to consider are access, preservation planning and administration, according to Tessella's Robert Sharpe.

Interview

Libraries on the agenda

17 August 2007

This August the half a million information professionals served by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions will have a new president. Claudia Lux, of Zentral und Landesbibliothek Berlin, Germany, tells us her plans for the role

June/July 2007

Feature

Solving archive challenges

11 June 2007

How to preserve data as hardware and data formats evolve is a key concern for many organisations. In the first of two articles, Robert Sharp of Tessella looks at ways of ingesting, managing and storing digital information.

Feature

Training increases HINARI and AGORA benefits

11 June 2007

More than 100 publishers have opened up their online subscription journals to researchers in the world's poorest countries. But using information isn't easy if the users have no experience of such resources. Siân Harris finds out how training is helping

Feature

Taking on the Chinese publishing challenge

11 June 2007

With its large population and growing economy, China is an attractive market but language and cultural differences present considerable challenges. Sarah Philip and Adrian Stanley of The Charlesworth Group offer advice about how publishers can make their mark in the country

Feature

Is physics the new biomedicine?

11 June 2007

A new set of physics and maths journals are planned for BioMed Central. Siân Harris finds out why this open-access publisher is branching out from biomedical sciences.

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