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.…
Sobering news from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which points to less than rosy prospects for recruitment into the science sector of the economy in a report published this week.…
The current economic difficulties across the globe bring serious risks to scholarly books and journals. Our briefing calls on key stakeholders to find solutions to the challenges facing the UK’s research base.…
This new factsheet explains the basics of the dual support system and summarises recent moves to ensure the full costs of research are funded and to reform the research assessment system.…
This guidance is aimed at authors, research funders, publishers and readers to ensure that funders are acknowledged in a standardised way in journal articles.…
There?s an interesting and rather strong editorial in Nature this week which complements the consultation draft we issued a few weeks ago of principles relating to the stewardship of research data.…
Following a pretty massive collective effort on the part of a large range of agencies (including RIN), last week saw the long-awaited publication of a report on developing the UK’s e-infrastructure for science and innovation. Not the sexiest of …
As many of you will have read, there are fears that the British Library will face cuts in the coming Spending Review, and it has produced a briefing note setting out what the implications would be.…
Following the publication late last year of the roadmap produced by the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure (ESFRI), it is interesting to see the work programme for 2007 (not easy to find on the CORDIS website, but availab…
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