UKPubMed Central gets funding for development
The UK PubMed Central website has received funding for further development over the next three years.
The UK PubMed Central website has received funding for further development over the next three years.
Students prefer to read e-textbooks online but interactivity is not a major issue for them, according to the first survey of the UK's e-book observatory
The first international Open Access Day will be held on 14 October 2008
Elsevier Foundation grants help researchers in developing countries and the academic workplace.
The Max Planck Society (MPS) has signed a deal with the Public Library of Science (PLoS) to centrally fund the publication fees of MPS scientists
Gladstone scientists create Wikipathways to foster research collaboration.
Study concludes that open-access academic articles get read more often but don't generate more citations.
New research shows that fewer papers are being cited than in the days before the internet, reports Rebecca Pool
SPARC Europe and DRIVER agree to work together to promote repositories.
Collexis Holdings and JISC Collections widen access to essential biomedical research in the UK with new online resource.
James Gray assesses the situation and how it can be addressed
Matt Balara explains how an established publisher, De Gruyter, completed an extraordinary transformation
From rapid disease information to a way to promote and share regional knowledge in multiple languages, preprints have come into their own in recent years. Siân Harris finds out more
Céline Richard explains what the Large Hadron Collider has taught us about the importance of open access research
Ivy Cavendish tells the inspirational tale behind the formation of a writing tool for researchers, TooWrite
There is a continuing need for the sorts of insights and judgements that only a person can bring, writes David Stuart
COUNTER reports have an integral role to play in our wider scholarly communication system, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Emerald Publishing CEO Tony Roche talks of his career in scholarly publishing and a love of eastern cuisine
Alicia Wise, CLOCKSS executive director, reflects on her career and explains the importance of robustly preserving academic resources
Heather Staines sums up proceedings at this year's Researcher to Reader conference