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.…
What is the role of doctoral training in advanced knowledge-based economies?…
The new European Commission was sworn in a couple of weeks ago, several months late owing to the time it took for the appointees to be approved by the European Parliament.…
Interactive publications are cool, really cool.…
One of the most recurring (and sometimes tiresome) debates in our area is the one about the relative merits of institutional and subject-based repositories. Which if the two is better for the long-term curation of content?…
Quick postscript to my posting from last month on the enduring web: a useful note from the 21 July workshop on web archiving has been published in the latest issue of Ariadne.…
I’ve just caught up with the recent report from the Commons Select Committee on Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills, published a couple of weeks ago, on Putting Science and Engineering at the Heart of Government Policy. …
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