This is an edited version of an article I wrote for the April issue of eLucidate, the UKEIG Newsletter. The bibliographic reference is the foundation of scholarship. A reference is a surrogate for knowledge, a surrogate for research results that have been condensed into a journal article and then stored in the minds of scholars. Reference management...

As summer draws to a close and the new autumn season looms, it's that time when librarians start to think about subscriptions for the next calendar year. (Actually we now think about them all year round - I just had a licence from one publisher to sign for our 2009 subscriptions and we started thinking about another publisher's 2010 subscriptions back...