How do we make the case for research data centres?…
As one academic year closes, another one begins, and with it a deep breath, a sense of hope and re-energised vision of what we all hope to achieve in the coming year.…
RIN’s recent report Reinventing research? Information practices in the humanities couldn’t have come at a better time for us at The European Library.…
A few weeks back I had the pleasure of running some of the sessions at the Vitae & British Library’s Digital Researcher 2011 event and I swear the buzz has not yet worn off. …
With the Lord Browne review resulting in one of the most important reforms to higher education, alongside cuts to the teaching and research budgets, this coming year will be one of radical change for the higher education sector.…
Genuine altruism isn’t exactly rife within the biological sciences or anywhere else (even charitable giving can be cast as guilt avoidance).…
Peter Kemp, Librarian Emeritus, University of Stirling and participant at the 9 November 2010 workshop on evaluating the impact of the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL) hosted by the RIN & SCURL shares his thoughts on t…
This guest blog is taken from Edinburgh University Director of Library Services Sheila Cannell’s talk at the 9 November 2010 workshop on evaluating the impact of the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL) hosted by the RIN &…
The tension in the modern research environment between the long-standing academic principle of free and open access to research and the commercial need for confidentiality to protect competitive advantage, is well known to the academic community.…
11 October: The future of scholarly publishing – where do we go from here? This event has now taken place; a report from the meeting can be found below. An informative blog from Christina Costa (University of Salford) can also be found here.…
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