Research Information - Features

Marketing can help publishers weather the recession

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Charlie Rapple reveals the challenges and opportunities of marketing in a recession and how a new web-based community could help

Study reveals e-textbook successes

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Sian Harris reports back from London Book Fair on the latest in JISC's e-Book Observatory project

Partners in open access

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

John Murphy finds out why start-up company Co-Action Publishing has chosen the open-access model

Listening to researchers is crucial to information planning

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

For the information professional working in the medical world, demands are intense but cash is tight. Rebecca Pool talks to GE Healthcare's Tracey Evans about its Knowledge Centre

Helping to do right with rights

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Mark Bide, project director of ACAP, explains how publishers can make their rights and those of their authors clear to search engines and why he believes such efforts are required

Open-source search tool helps clippings database

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The UK's Newspaper Licensing Agency is using Flax enterprise search software in its new clippings service

Licences are valuable tools

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Alicia Wise, chief executive of the UK's Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) and also on secondment to the Publishers Association, explains why licences are particularly valuable now that so much content is digital

Publishers relax author rights agreements

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The internet is changing the ways that publishers negotiate rights with authors. Sian Harris reports from the London Book Fair

Proof in preservation

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

SAGE has recently released two journals to preservation initiatives. Clive Parry reveals what this experience has taught the scholarly publishing industry

Digitisation helps future proof Dutch literature

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren, DBNL) is partnering with an Asia-based conversion and digitisation services provider, SPi Technologies to build one of the largest online repositories of Dutch literature. We asked Rene van Stipriaan, editor-in-chief of DBNL, why the resulting website is becoming one of the most popular sites on Dutch literature and is attracting visitors from all walks of life

Redefining e-books

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

There's little doubt that e-books are a hot topic for publishers and librarians. Sian Harris asked some people involved with e-books in different ways what the situation is like at the moment and what they predict for the future

Scientists lead the push for open data sharing

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Biologist Cameron Neylon describes a community that is changing the way scientists communicate by making their data publicly available on the web

Reference tool helps organise scholarly resources

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Credo Reference allows users to search many authoritative reference works with a single tool, writes John Murphy

Simplicity and complexity

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

CABI, which is owned by the governments of 42 countries, will celebrate its 100th birthday next year. We asked Carol McNamara, executive director for commercial activities, about what the organisation has seen in the past and its plans for the future

Technology innovation helps information outlook

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

What does 2009 hold for scholarly information? Siân Harris reports back from the Online Information show