Research Information in Transition - A series of evening events in 2010
Date: Monday, 13 December 2010 17:30Location: Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent's Park, London NW1 4LE 11 October: The future of scholarly publishing – where do we go from here?...
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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...
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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...
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Genuine altruism isn’t exactly rife within the biological sciences or anywhere else (even charitable giving can be cast as guilt avoidance).read more
View ArticleImplications for the British Library and the higher education sector...
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...
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View ArticleCreating a new humanities resource for researchers
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.read more
View ArticleUKCGE Initiatives
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. It’s like a New Year resolution,...
View ArticleHow do we make the case for research data centres?
How do we make the case for research data centres? The RIN-JISC event at the Wellcome Collection on 17 November sought to answer this question by exploring some of the issues raised by the recent,...
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