Humphrey Kombe Keah is an information management and digital services specialist at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. He discusses the opportunities and challenges of information access in Kenya for agricultural science and national development.
Organisers of the Internet Librarian International (ILI) event in London later this year have announced the keynote speaker: Kate Torney, CEO of Australia’s oldest and busiest library the State Library of Victoria
Matti Shem Tov, president of Ex Libris, is to succeed Kurt Sanford as CEO of ProQuest
John Wiley and Sons has announced a partnership with Overleaf, a cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool
Atypon says it has expanded its commitment to enterprise-level IT security and privacy, establishing a Department of Information Security and Privacy
Generation X is now – and publishers and technology providers must deliver new products faster, writes Anne Stone
Technology company Digital Science has opened a subsidiary company, Digital Science & Research LLC, based in Moscow, Russia
What happens when librarians are asked to share their thoughts with academic publishers? That was the question behind research carried out in advance of the UKSG conference in April this year, write Bernie Folan and Claire Grace
It remains a surprising fact to many that most open access publishers do not charge article processing charges, writes Liz Allen
Publons, the online network of peer reviewers, has launched the Publons Academy: a free, practical peer review training course aimed at speeding up scholarly communication and improving researcher development
Cartoon abstracts are a very effective way to bring research to life, writes Daniel Pullin
Judy Verses is executive vice president for research at John Wiley and Sons
From pilots to practice, more and more publishers are warming to open peer review, reports Rebecca Pool