It seems a little – circular – to be discussing a report on web 2.0 using a blog. However, the recent RIN report, If you build it, will they come?…
As a personal assistant part of the job is organising travel, accommodation and papers for managers attending conferences abroad. The other part is hoping everything runs smoothly since you won’t be there with them.…
During the course of your research project how many times have you banged your head against a wall or wanted to pack it all in? I hope this makes you smile and realise we have all been there. I wrote this during a particularly tough spell during my PhD.…
Presenting at a conference last week, I felt a familiar thrill of trepidation when an audience member raised their hand. Are they about to question my study’s methods? Its findings? Its worth?…
Having blogged about the SWETSWise’s promised new online service to allow librarians (and others) to discover which books are available in e-format, and to compare purchasing models, licence conditions and prices, last autumn, I can now state that it has co…
Just in case anyone is wondering, my previous blog entry on the Research Excellence Framework wasn’t entirely truthful, and may have been influenced by the date it was published on.…
Last week, the Higher Education Funding Councils announced the outcome of the consultations on the Research Excellence Framework (REF), and set out some preliminary decisions on aspects of the design of the REF.…
It has recently been announced that the UK government has set up a new ?Institute for Web Science? to be headed up by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt of the University of Southampton.…
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