This new report investigates the drivers, costs and benefits of potential ways to increase access to scholarly journals.…
Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate.…
This two-part report takes in-depth look at how researchers in the UK use electronic journals, the value they bring to universities and research institutions and the contribution they make to research productivity, quality and outcomes.…
In recent years, publishers, librarians and academics have seized the opportunities offered by the electronic publication of scholarly journals.…
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.…
This project looks at the extent of adoption of different web 2.0 tools in different subject fields and disciplines, and the different types of researchers who are using them.…
This guide has been produced to provide researchers, academic administrators and librarians with an understanding of quality assurance processes and some of the current issues surrounding the debate about quality assurance.…
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.…
The RIN and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) are looking to commission two research projects as part of a broad portfolio of activities aimed at developing the evidence base on transitions in the scholarly communica…
This report looks at how researchers publish and why, including the motivations that lead them to publish in different formats and the increase in collaboration and co-authorship.…
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