Research Information - Features

Good data about content reduces user frustration

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Charlie Rapple (right) reports on proposals to improve the accuracy and completeness of the data supplied to knowledge bases

The slow rise of e-books

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Arnaud Pellé of Emerald Group Publishing takes a look at the history of e-books and what their future holds

Web 2.0 fails to excite today's researchers

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

With the current enthusiasm for anything '2.0', David Stuart asks what it will take to change the way that academics work

Librarians still have vital role in the Web 2.0 era

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Information professional Hervé Basset shares his observations about the role of Web 2.0 technology in science intelligence in industry

Strength in numbers

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

John Murphy discovers how HighWire provides technology and community to more than 140 publishers

Physicists get new research network

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Siân Harris finds out about a new social network to help physicists work together and share information

Personalisation allows researchers to create online bibliographies

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Lisa Jeskins and Bethan Ruddock describe a free tool that enables users to search the UK's national and academic libraries

Evolution not revolution

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Olaf Ernst, Springer's president of eProduct management and innovation, talks about some of the new developments in electronic publishing

Published data needs standards

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Accessing original datasets is becoming increasingly important in research today but finding this data can be a challenge. Toby Green, head of publishing for OECD, argues the case for standards to help researchers find and cite published datasets and tables

CUP launches digital archive

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

John Murphy finds out about the challenges that Cambridge University Press (CUP) faced in digitising its complete journal archive

Springer collection returns to its roots

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Renate Bayaz of Springer explains some of the challenges involved in moving the company's large historical collection to the Central and Regional Library in Berlin

Tight budgets affect scholarly information market

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

David Mort gives his annual insight into the European STM information market and the effects of reduced funding

Community curation helps chemical information

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Antony Williams explains why the Royal Society of Chemistry has acquired chemical information search tool ChemSpider

Switzerland builds next-generation metacatalogue

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Four languages, five metadata standards, 13 OPACS, four federated search platforms and more than 800 libraries... Tobias Viegener reveals the challenges in building a nationwide search platform for Switzerland

International body promotes digital libraries

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Ingeborg Verheul describes the work of IFLA and how the organisation is helping librarians work together in digitisation and digital libraries