Industry trends

The US Department of Energy and the British Library have teamed up to make international science information resources accessible via a single internet portal.

Thomson Scientific is supplying journal literature information to The Patent Board for a study of scientific research trends on behalf of the US National Science Foundation.

A group of European organisations are calling on the European Commission to support public access to the output of EC-funded research shortly after publication.

The UK version of the US National Institutes of Health’s open-access biomedical research archive has now been launched.

As Google and its rivals move into traditional research information territory, they could face challenges of their own. A new type of search engine is the latest project from Wikia.

Nature’s authors and readers are reluctant to participate in an open peer-review process, according to a recent experiment carried out by the journal.

Growth in online usage of Oxford Journal’s Nucleic Acids Research, a journal that went fully open-access in January 2005, is more linked to search engines than to the change in publishing model.