JISC appoints new head
Martyn Harrow, director of information services at Cardiff University, has been appointed as head of JISC for a fixed term of nine-18 months from 1 February 2012
Martyn Harrow, director of information services at Cardiff University, has been appointed as head of JISC for a fixed term of nine-18 months from 1 February 2012
Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has become a founding sponsors of ORCID, the organisation set up to solve the problem of name ambiguity in scholarly research
The European Commission is asking member states to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private partners in digitising cultural material and making it available through Europeana
Six projects financed by SURFfoundation have been giving researchers insight into enhancing publications
Knowledge for All will host the first Open Index Week, which will be from 24 to 28 October, alongside the international open-access week
Publishing a lay summary alongside every research article could be the answer to assisting in the wider understanding of health-related information, according to the findings of a new citizen science project
A new European agreement is tackling the challenge of how to revive books and journals that predate the internet without damaging the rights of authors and publishers, write Carlo Scollo Lavizzari and André Myburgh, attorneys-at-law at Lenz Caemmerer
A new search engine should help academics, students and the general public navigate papers held in the UK's open-access repositories
Nawin Gupta has been appointed secretary general of the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries
Sian Harris reports back from the ALPSP conference on discussions about the future of the scholarly publishing industry