This jointly commissioned RIN and RLUK report presents the findings of a systematic study of the value of the services that libraries in the UK provide to researchers, and of the contributions that libraries from a wide range of institutions make to i…
A few weeks back I had the pleasure of running some of the sessions at the Vitae & British Library’s Digital Researcher 2011 event and I swear the buzz has not yet worn off. …
With the Lord Browne review resulting in one of the most important reforms to higher education, alongside cuts to the teaching and research budgets, this coming year will be one of radical change for the higher education sector.…
This guest blog is taken from Edinburgh University Director of Library Services Sheila Cannell’s talk at the 9 November 2010 workshop on evaluating the impact of the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL) hosted by the RIN &…
The last decade has been a period of unprecedented change for university libraries.…
This joint RIN and SCONUL briefing paper looks at how the financial position of libraries in the higher education sector has changed over the period between 1999 and 2009.…
This provides resources that staff working with digital content can use to help them deal with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and licensing issues that might arise.…
This considers the legal implications for libraries of new sorts of activities brought on by the digitally networked world and may assist to clarify and advance understanding of what librarians are entitled to do with the bibliographic records that they hol…
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.…
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.…
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