Tilting the balance back towards libraries
7 May 2021
Jason Priem tells of his hopes for a ‘long-overdue’ change in academic publishing
Jonathan Bresman explains why the Starship Enterprise and Jurassic Park needed semantic search
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Is a software revolution on the cards?
11 March 2020
The open-access movement is calling into question business models in scholarly publishing, writes Sami Benchekroun
4open
30 June 2017
Learned society owned publisher EDP Sciences has announced the launch of a new multi- and inter-disciplinary open access journal: 4open
Rocky road to open access
2 October 2015
As open access policies come into force, UK higher education institutions are racing to meet the mandates. Rebecca Pool reports
Making the connections between funder and research
12 December 2014
Howard Ratner is executive director of CHOR Inc, the organisation behind the new CHORUS service in the USA. We ask him what CHORUS is about, what plans he has and his thoughts on open access in general
UK's OA policy influences research assessment
11 August 2014
The UK's system for assessing research and allocating money has added new open-access requirements. Neil Jacobs looks at what this means for researchers in the UK and elsewhere
Considering open access: talk from recent webinar
7 March 2014
At the end of last year Research Information editor Sian Harris was guest on a Copyright Clearance Center webinar on open access. She reports on some of the things she discussed
Thomson Reuters collaborates with SciELO
24 October 2013
The SciELO Citation Index of cited references from open-access journals from South America and other Ibero-America areas are being integretedinto the Web of Knowledge
Sloan Foundation awards grant to develop SHARE OA management initiative
24 October 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded $50,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation towards development of the SHared Access Research Ecosystem initiative
APCs add complexity to the role of librarians
8 October 2013
Earlier this year SAGE and Jisc organised a librarian roundtable to examine the implications of managing article-processing charges. Siân Harris, who also wrote the report of the event, describes some of the key findings
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Jennifer Schivas re-examines semantic enrichment’s strategic importance
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Many believe open access funding agreements will tip the balance of publishing output. But not everyone, says Rebecca Pool
Amer Abukhalaf
Research institutions and funders need to be more aware of the phenomenon, writes Amer Abukhalaf
Manisha Bolina
The need for fast, accurate and enriched data has never been more pressing, writes Manisha Bolina
Nathan Cunningham
A national infrastructure for research data is necessary to effectively apply AI and machine learning, writes Nathan Cunningham
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Publishers’ power in the research ecosystem must be tackled on a sector-wide basis, writes Silke Machold
Phil Gooch
Phil Gooch looks back at the history of semantic enrichment, and how it will be used going forward
Simone Taylor
AIP Publishing's Simone Taylor talks digital books, inclusion, long-distance walking and gluten-free baking
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Keywords help people find visual content on search engines, photo libraries and in-house image databases, writes Clemency Wright
Prabhakar Bisen
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Advancements in digital technologies have played a vital role in modernising the entire scholarly publication process, writes Prabhakar Bisen
