The tension in the modern research environment between the long-standing academic principle of free and open access to research and the commercial need for confidentiality to protect competitive advantage, is well known to the academic community.…
Anyone reading this blog is likely to agree that we are at the beginning of potentially the most exciting, creative and fruitful period in the history of science.…
At the Centre for Evidence & Policy we examine a large number of systematic reviews in order to provide extended abstracts for the UK database Social Care Online.…
As part of a task and finish group on internal marketing of academic liaison librarians at the University of Westminster, I posted a message to a couple of JISCmail lists to see what other librarians do in this respect.…
The question sometimes comes up when I talk with academic staff who are on their institution’s training course for supervisors, about the support research students need from their supervisors in managing information and in using it to produce a dissertation…
I’m a fan of peer review. There, I’ve said it. And I’m not saying it in the way that Sir Winston Churchill famously spoke of democracy; “the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.”…
I enjoyed reading the RIN’s recent guide ‘Challenges for academic libraries in difficult economic times’.…
‘Impact’ has been the word of the year in higher education research policy - Impact Plans, Impact Assessment, Impact Pilots. As funding cuts loom, the Treasury is looking to justify the investment of tax-payers? money in research.…
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