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…
I’m a fan of peer review. There, I’ve said it. And I’m not saying it in the way that Sir Winston Churchill famously spoke of democracy; “the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.”…
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…
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&…
A new guide from the Research Information Network focuses on how academic librarians are experiencing and responding to financial cuts in the current economic climate.…
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 area…
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. …
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