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.…
John and Laura Cox have now added to their series of reports (commissioned and published by ALPSP) on the state of journal publishing the first in which will surely be a new series of reports on scholarly book publishing practice. …
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…
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