The importance of developing highly-skilled researchers and promoting the value of research careers to build our research capacity and ensure the UK’s economic and cultural prosperity has been well-recognised, and implicit in the researcher development agen…
The study is tracking the information-seeking behaviour of doctoral students born 1982-94, analysing habits in online and physical research environments and assessing usage of library and information sources, on and off line. …
11 October: The future of scholarly publishing – where do we go from here? 18 November: Research data – policies and behaviours 13 December: Quality assurance – responding to a changing information world The Research Information Netwo…
The RIN, The Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) will be undertaking a third series of case studies to provide a detailed analysis of how researchers in the physical sciences discover, use, create and manage…
I enjoyed reading the RIN’s recent guide ‘Challenges for academic libraries in difficult economic times’.…
The RIN in collaboration with the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL) is assessing the impact of the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL) initiative which aims to provide a common set of journals to all Scottish&…
I attended a Association for Information Management (ASLIB) Engineering and Technology Group and British Library (BL) event on 2 March, highlighting some of the future developments and electronic access to the BL’s resources in these subject area…
I spoke at a conference on the subject of research publication and assessment in Denmark at the end of January, giving an overview of the UK’s perspective. …
The RIN will be undertaking a second series of case studies to provide a detailed analysis of how humanities’ researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources.…
This RIN report finds that many researchers are encountering difficulties in getting access to the content they need and that this is having a significant impact on their research.…
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