Physical Sciences Case studies: information use and discovery

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 their information resources.

This project will focus on the behaviours and needs of researchers working in a number of subject or disciplinary areas in the physical sciences. They follow the previous rounds of case studies in the life sciences and the humanities.

The overall aim of case studies is to:

    * develop an in-depth understanding of physical science researchers’ approaches to discovering, accessing, analysing, managing, creating, refining and disseminating information resources;

    * provide comparisons between the behaviours and needs of researchers in different subjects/disciplines, research teams or institutional contexts;

    * identify barriers to more effective performance in using, creating, managing and exchanging information resources, and suggest how they might be overcome.

Following the outcome of this call, the RIN will issue an invitation to tender to those who have expressed an interest. A full project specification and tendering requirements will be issued then.

The call for expression of interest has now closed. If you have any questions regarding this project please contact branwen.hide@rin.ac.uk