Utah State University picks new Innovative platform
22 September 2011
Utah State University selects the Sierra Services Platform
Library news
Web of Knowledge available in Algeria
12 September 2011
Thomson Reuters has announced a new three-year partnership that will bring Web of Knowledge to scientists and researchers at more than 60 institutions across Algeria
Publishers and British Library agree framework licence
9 September 2011
Publishers and the British Library agree framework licence agreement for document delivery outside the UK to non-commercial researchers
University of Maryland University College chooses EBSCO for discovery
12 August 2011
University of Maryland University College (UMUC) has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing as its discovery service
Librarians need to persuade politicians across Europe
19 July 2011
The copyright law for e-books needs changing, according to discussions at last week's Umbrella meeting. Tom Wilkie reports
Changing landscape poses challenges for supporting effective research
18 July 2011
Bernie Folan reveals some findings from a meeting of academic librarians and early-career researchers late last year
Archive charts birth of modern China
18 July 2011
An online archive of 8,000 rare photographs of Chinese life between 1850 and 1950 has been launched through the Visualising China project
Nanyang Technological University picks EBSCO Discovery Service
15 July 2011
Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has selected EBSCO Discovery Service
University of Hong Kong renews open-access agreement with Springer
11 July 2011
Agreement means that researchers with affiliation to the University of Hong Kong can publish their research results in Springer journals using Springer Open Choice
OCLC and Research Libraries UK survey special collections in UK and Ireland
11 July 2011
OCLC Research and Research Libraries UK are working together to gather data on special collections in research libraries in the UK and Ireland
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Antonia Seymour, chief executive at IOP Publishing, and Andrew Barker, director of library services and learning development at Lancaster University, talk about hybrid working and re-thinking how we work
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
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Siân Harris looks at what role cloud-based services play in libraries today, their benefits and limitations and what challenges remain
Charlie Rapple
Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple explains her passion for accelerating the dissemination – and impact – of science
Sowmya Swaminathan
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
Helen Lippell
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Mark Hahnel
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Miriam Maus
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing
