Weak pound hurting journal subscriptions in UK, say associations - January 5, 2009
The fall in the value of the pound is reportedly having a "crippling effect" on the budgets of UK university libraries. Costs of subscriptions to overseas research journals from Europe and the US have risen due to changes in the exchange rate. Since July 2008, the value of the pound… Read More
Outsell report predicts steady growth for information industry in 2009 - December 22, 2008
Media industry-focused research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., US, has published its 'Information Industry Outlook 2009: No Guts No Glory,' offering predictions, analyses and key themes for the information and publishing industry. The report cites Apple, Elsevier and LinkedIn among the 30 innovators to watch. Despite… Read More
China fast emerging patenting leader, says Thomson Reuters report - December 12, 2008
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has published a report titled World IP Today: Patented in China - The Present and Future State of Innovation in China. The report looks at current patent trends and speculates how the world of patent information will look in five… Read More
BioInformatics report on impact of Web 2.0 and social media tools on publishing - December 3, 2008
Market research and consulting firm BioInformatics, LLC, US, has announced the publication of its latest report, 'The Brave New World of Scientific Publishing.' Going beyond the original social media study published jointly in 2007 by BioInformatics and PJA, a B2B advertising and marketing agency, the latest… Read More
SAGE announces results of survey to understand the needs of scholarly societies in the 21st century - December 2, 2008
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the results of the survey undertaken to gain insight and understanding of the professional challenges facing scholarly societies across the world in the 21st century. Launched in September, the survey, Meeting the challenges: societies and scholarly communication, was supported by the… Read More
More guidance needed to check outcome reporting bias, says report - November 28, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal Trials has published a review of reporting guidelines for randomised controlled trials (RCTs), conducted by Dwan et al. The report, Reporting of clinical trials: a review of research funders' guidelines, highlights… Read More
UK libraries to step up e-book purchases, says NetLibrary survey - November 25, 2008
NetLibrary, the e-content division of OCLC, recently surveyed academic and public libraries on key issues in perceptions and usage of e-books currently and going forward within the UK. It was found that three-quarters of academic libraries and half of public libraries that responded intend to… Read More
ARL publishes survey of libraries’ effort to post manuscript information online - November 19, 2008
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Manuscript Collections on the Web, SPEC Kit 307, a survey of ARL libraries' current efforts to provide information about their manuscript collections online. There is growing demand from users, administrators and donors for web availability of manuscript… Read More
Report on journal purchasing practices of academic and research libraries released - November 13, 2008
Market research and data services provider Research and Markets, Ireland, has announced the release of the report, 'The Survey of Academic & Research Library Journal Purchasing Practices'. The report looks closely at the acquisition practices for scientific, technical and academic journals of academic and research libraries.… Read More
ARL releases Ithaka study report on current models of digital scholarly communication - November 12, 2008
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released the final report of "Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication", a study that ARL commissioned Ithaka to conduct. The study, conducted by Nancy L. Maron and K. Kirby Smith, comes with the database of exemplars that it produced.… Read More
