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
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
From bypassing aggregators to the influx of new university presses, the world of library-based publishing is changing fast, reports Rebecca Pool
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
Chris Smith
Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
Rossana Morriello
Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
