Project empowers open data in public administration
1 October 2012
Antoni Felguera and Marc Torrent report on a European project to help open up public data
Industry trends
OA needs planning, says report
20 September 2012
The sustainability of the services that are used around the world to underpin open access is critical and this requires business planning
Scholarly publishing: a journalist's perspective
17 September 2012
Sian Harris spoke at last week's ALPSP conference about the challenges for science and technology journalists of accessing scholarly content. See her slides and read the transcript of her talk, including recommendations for publishers and researchers
Europeana opens cultural dataset for re-use
12 September 2012
Europeana has opened up its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use by apps developers, designers and other digital innovators
Springer announces API Challenge winners
10 September 2012
Springer has announced the winners of its challenge to create new and original non-commercial applications that use Springer's metadata and content APIs
Mendeley handles 100 million calls monthly from external apps
22 August 2012
The number of queries to the Mendeley database ("API calls") from external applications now exceeds 100 million per month
Librarians and publishers still have problems with e-books
20 August 2012
E-books still have a long way to go before librarians and their customers will be satisfied, reports Tom Wilkie from last month's Special Libraries Association meeting
Mendeley promises to accelerate analytics
7 August 2012
Academic institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia have signed up to Mendeley's new data dashboard, which analyses their research activity and impact on the global research community in real time
Reaping all the rewards of research-led teaching
29 July 2012
When it comes to policy-making, teaching and research are still seen as two distinct worlds, but higher-education institutions are finding increasingly sophisticated ways of linking the two in the digital age, writes Amber Thomas
12 journals to participate in SCOAP3
19 July 2012
SCOAP3 has announced the 12 journals from seven publishers that will participate
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