Recent projects undertaken by the Consultancy division include:

• conference reports on
• the ICSTI International Seminar on Open Access (Paris, 2003)
• the International Patent Information Conference and Exposition (Lisbon, 2004);
• surveys of
• information habits of bench chemists,
• strategic directions in the scientific information industry
• the take-up of XML production technology by publishers;
• advising a scientific society during a potential change of journals publisher;
• preparing the launch of the Chemistry Central Journal, an open access chemistry journal;
• providing business development services to a leading chemical software company;
• providing business development services to a leading Indian database curator;
• a number of confidential business development projects for venture capitalists, publishers and information providers; and
• a report on STM book publishing

Bill Town was also co-organiser of a recent seminar on Open Access publishing at the Fall ACS meeting in Philadelphia and has recently been an invited speaker at both the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Process Engineering in Beijing and the Herman Skolnik Award Symposium at the Fall ACS meeting in Washington, DC.