The overwhelming majority of professional staff in research institutions and libraries across the globe view open access as the future of academic and scientific publishing
Jisc, the UK’s organisation for education technology, is working with Reveal Digital, a US-based open access publisher, to make independent and alternative press collections available
Academic libraries are increasingly launching their own publishing programmes, explains Sarah Lippincott
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and the Society for Scholarly Publishing have announced a student editor position for their journal, Learned Publishing
Federated access management specialist OpenAthens is to host a conference focused on ‘championing the user’
Elsevier has announced it is working with Beijing University of Chinese Medicine to create a new taxonomy for traditional Chinese medicine in Embase, the biomedical literature database
The Institute of Engineering and Technology (The IET) has chosen Molecular Connections as its preferred partner to offer strategic insights
Elsevier and Hypothesis have announced a collaboration to align annotation capabilities
Librarians are in the top five professional groups the public believe are most likely to provide trustworthy information
IOP Publishing has expanded its double-blind peer review programme, following a successful pilot on two of its journals
Danny Kingsley, deputy director at Cambridge University Library, looks back at her early days at Australian National University – and forward to the many challenges facing librarians
While researchers, publishers and funders warm to data sharing, issues over misuse, citation and credit remain, reports Rebecca Pool