The full story of attempts to solve 'the longitude problem' are being made freely available to everyone via Cambridge University's Digital Library
This Tuesday Europeana will meet with the European Commission to make its case for continued funding. Sian Harris finds out why
An online archive of 8,000 rare photographs of Chinese life between 1850 and 1950 has been launched through the Visualising China project
The winners of the De Gruyter Saur IFLA Research Paper Award 2011 are Erin Thomas, Grace Costantino, Bianca Crowley and Rebecca Morin with their paper entitled 'Heeding the Call: User Feedback Management and the Digital Library'
Tessella will provide part of the technology for the Wellcome Trust's large-scale digitisation programme
Friedel Grant looks at some new initiatives that increase access to the treasures of art galleries, libraries and museums around the world
The European IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) project has welcomed 11 new partners from Southern and Eastern Europe
Tom Wilkie reports back from the London Book Fair, where rights management was a hot topic for discussion
A deal between the British Library and Amazon will make 65,000 largely out-of-print 19th century titles available on Amazon via print-on-demand or as free downloads on Kindle
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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From rapid disease information to a way to promote and share regional knowledge in multiple languages, preprints have come into their own in recent years. Siân Harris finds out more
Céline Richard
Céline Richard explains what the Large Hadron Collider has taught us about the importance of open access research
Ivy Cavendish
Ivy Cavendish tells the inspirational tale behind the formation of a writing tool for researchers, TooWrite
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There is a continuing need for the sorts of insights and judgements that only a person can bring, writes David Stuart
Tasha Mellins-Cohen
COUNTER reports have an integral role to play in our wider scholarly communication system, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Tony Roche
Emerald Publishing CEO Tony Roche talks of his career in scholarly publishing and a love of eastern cuisine
Alicia Wise
Alicia Wise, CLOCKSS executive director, reflects on her career and explains the importance of robustly preserving academic resources
Heather Staines
Heather Staines sums up proceedings at this year's Researcher to Reader conference
