I enjoyed reading the RIN’s recent guide ‘Challenges for academic libraries in difficult economic times’.…
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. …
There?s been a flurry of articles this week about the effects of the internet on young people?s minds, sparked by BBC2?s Virtual Revolution series, exploring how the web is reshaping our lives.…
Established and led by the RIN, this group brings together representatives from the communities involved in scholarly communications.…
The RIN and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) are looking to commission two research projects as part of a portfolio of work looking at transitions in scholarly communications.…
The growth in demand for and use of e-books in academic libraries has been a slow one but is now taking off rapidly both for students and for researchers. …
This report looks at how researchers publish and why, including the motivations that lead them to publish in different formats and the increase in collaboration and co-authorship.…
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 …
I have been doing some background reading on open access and was alerted to a new initiative by PLoS, entitled PLos Currents an”experimental” site for posting preprints of papers on hot topics. The first ?Current?…
A new report from RIN reveals that there is a clear correlation between levels of usage of electronic journals (or e-journals) and research outcomes.…
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