Many readers will know that the RIN is currently embarking, in concert with JISC and a range of other bodies in the library, publishing and research funding communities, on a portfolio of projects under the heading of transitions in scholarly communica…
It’s interesting to find in the current issue of Against the Grain a series of articles on pay-per-view as a mechanism for academic libraries to provide access to journal articles.…
There was a flurry of comments in the blogosphere when the Chronicle of Higher Education published in July a short article about a report Mary Waltham has prepared for the National Humanities Alliance, with funds provided by the Mellon Foundation, on …
The results of the National Student Survey have just been made available on the HEFCE website.…
One of the most interesting presentations at the Wiley-Blackwell executive seminar last Friday was one from Tracey Brown, the Director of Sense About Science, an independent charitable trust promoting good science and evidence in public debates.…
Along with well over a hundred others I attended on Friday an interesting “Executive Seminar” run by Wiley-Blackwell.…
A report – Peer Review: its Present and Future States - has recently been published of the proceedings of a conference organised by the European Science Foundation, the European Heads of Research Councils, and the Czech Science Foundation, and held in Octob…
There’s an interesting and rather strong editorial in Nature this week which complements the consultation draft we issued a few weeks ago of principles relating to the stewardship of research data.…
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