Evolution, revolution or something else?
8 December 2011
Sian Harris reports back from the ALPSP annual conference in September on discussions about the future of the scholarly publishing industry
Industry trends
Access, review and changing brains
8 December 2011
Developments in the internet are enabling new approaches to access, peer review and even changing the ways our brains work. Sian Harris reports back from the STM Frankfurt meeting
Semantico to build global scholarly author registry
8 December 2011
Industry consortium ORCID has chosen Semantico to help build the first phase of its worldwide registry for scholarly authors
'Living books' aim to break down barriers
24 November 2011
A series of 21 'living books' has been launched online as part of an initiative designed to provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences
Researchers can disrupt publishing
21 November 2011
Scholarly publishers have many discussions about potential disruption to the industry but what role are researchers playing in industry changes? More than we might at first think, argues Neil Jacobs of JISC
Global experiment examines social media for educational content
9 November 2011
A global experiment based on the social media technology behind Twitter and Facebook aims to find out how the social activity around online educational content can be captured and fed back to users, creators and publishers
JISC appoints new head
8 November 2011
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
CABI contributes to name ambiguity project
8 November 2011
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
European Commission adopts preservation recommendation
1 November 2011
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
Projects delve into enhanced publication
24 October 2011
Six projects financed by SURFfoundation have been giving researchers insight into enhancing publications
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