Industry trends

A group representing UK biologists has come out in favour of open-access publishing, provided that it is adequately funded and that policies are flexible.

Based on total citations to their works, US-based Thomson Scientific has pinpointed researchers most likely to win a 2007 Nobel Prize

North American universities are leading the world on electronic publishing and open access while European counterparts play catch up, indicates the latest Webometrics survey

A new policy from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research aims to promote public access to its funded research

Open access proponents launch scathing attack on the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine, describing it as an 'anti-open access lobbying organisation'

The American Chemical Society claims chemistry research is thriving as its Abstracts Service logs a record number of references

In a bid to boost publication exposure, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is to pay the processing charges for articles published by its researchers…

French search software provider, Exalead, joins the Automated Content Access Protocol Pilot project with a view to validating the initiative

US sees a decay in the number of scientific papers published while the rest of the world increases its article count

Three programmes that provide free, or almost free, access to online peer-reviewed journals for researchers in more than 100 of the world's poorest countries…

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute will require its original research articles to be made freely accessible in a public repository within six months of…