This new guide provides researchers with an understanding of how peer review works and highlights some of the issues surround the current debates about the peer review process.…
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 areas.…
Established and led by the RIN, this group brings together representatives from the communities involved in scholarly communications.…
Interactive publications are cool, really cool.…
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. …
A study tracking young doctoral student’s information-seeking behaviour ran a workshop yesterday to discuss the future of research in a digital age and how researchers are using new online tools.…
‘Impact’ has been the word of the year in higher education research policy - Impact Plans, Impact Assessment, Impact Pilots. As funding cuts loom, the Treasury is looking to justify the investment of tax-payers’ money in research.…
The Research Information Network, in cooperation with a host of other key organisations, is launching a series of new projects looking at transitions in scholarly communications.…
A new portfolio of research projects will be focusing on transitions to electronic-only publication, gaps in access, the dynammics of improving access to research papers and the future of scholarly communication.…
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 …
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