The role of the librarian in India is transforming. Shafina Segon and Nicola Bacon describe two initiatives to change technology and research methodology in academia
Kudos has partnered with Jisc Collections to provide a standard agreement for all UK universities
Altmetric has begun to track data from the Open Syllabus Project (OSP), which details where individual books are included in the syllabi of over 4,000 academic institutions around the world
China now accounts for around one-fifth of published output in English-language journals, second only to the USA
A 'global search' has been launched by the University of Cambridge to find its next university librarian and director of library services
BioOne has formed partnerships with Canadian Science Publishing, CSIRO Publishing of Australia, and the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
The 8th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, hosted by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, is still open for registrations
When technologies arrive on the market, not only are most libraries interested; they also test a few and integrate them in selected applications and projects, writes Rafael Ball.
OpenAthens has announced the venue and agenda for its first Customer Conference, which will bring together information professionals and technical experts
Roy Kaufman and Michael Iarrobino explain why text miners should heed the data quality imperative
As scholarly publishing edges closer to open access, industry players are devising radical ways to cut costs. Rebecca Pool reports
The need to organise information efficiently and reliably is more important than ever, argues Allan Gajadhar
The scholarly publishing community will descend on the ExCeL Centre for a two-day event in December, writes Clive Snell
Suzanne Kavanagh, director of marketing and membership services at ALPSP, outlines what delegates can expect at their annual conference this September