Online resources help learning
A generation ago students learned from text books – sometimes written by their lecturers. An elite few got to travel to the dusty archives…
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German libraries bring disciplines together
The online world has come a long way in terms of searching for information. It is sometimes easy to forget that, having found a…
Books make their mark in search-engine family
A few years ago everyone knew what you meant when you were using the verb ‘to Google’. It meant using a popular indexing search…
Publisher partnership ready to go for gold
Sage has become the first major journal publisher to break ranks and announce the creation of a range of new open-access (OA) electronic titles…
Usage insight guides subscription decisions
It goes without saying that, when a library spends a lot of money on information services, it wants to be sure the resources are…
Searching for science
More mature users of electronic information remember the delights of Gophers and Veronicas. These worked mainly because there was so little information published electronically.…
Keeping independence
We are getting used to the idea that all the background literature that a researcher needs to read can be found online. Whether they…
Integrating services for publishers
It was not that long ago that publishers who printed things could stand aloof from those who went online. The print business model provided…
Electronic access boosts power of reference book
For nearly 100 years the Houben-Weyl series, recently renamed Science of Synthesis, has provided a key source of methodology information to organic chemists. Traditionally,…
From printer to publisher
Ten years ago the imprint of Maney did not exist. The company did but its publishing activities were hidden behind the imprints of the…
Helping libraries to help users
Pat Sommers is the CEO of SirsiDynix. Modern libraries rely heavily on software. In the early days they wrote their own, but it has…
Championing the case of smaller publishers
In recent years the profile of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has been raised significantly by the energetic work of…