Many recent policies favour openness, and studies show that researchers as readers value this too. However, as authors, researcher priorities are different. Rachel Bruce and David Prosser consider this gap and what can be done to address it
Dynamic documents, semantic technologies and better signposting in scholarly resources are some of the ways libraries and publishers can help researchers, according to a study by Lettie Conrad and Mary Somerville
Jisc and Wikimedia UK are collaborating on a project to bring the academic world and Wikipedia closer together
ORCID is using Ringgold as Registration Agency for ISNI Institutional Identifiers
Temis, which provides semantic content enrichment solutions, has acquired the US-based i3 Analytics, a provider of data analytics and visualisation technologies
CompareNetworks, which provides media and platform products in web and mobile formats for the scientific and healthcare industries, has acquired scrazzl, a technology platform that links scientific products with research articles
SCOAP3, the consortium the aims to make high-energy physics research open access, says that it is on track to meet its target start date of 1 January 2014
The USA is still the superpower of science, according to the first Nature Publishing Index (NPI) Global supplement
Every year Thomson Reuters uses its citation analysis tools to study the research landscape and the researchers within it. Christopher King shares what the latest study says about the field of genomics
A G8 'Open for Growth' event on 15 June will discuss open data in the run up to next week's G8 Leaders Summit
