Research Information – June/July 2015

As digital technologies re-shape traditional teaching methods in higher education, the MOOC is finding its feet, reports Rebecca Pool (…)

Accelerating the advance of scholarly communications

Amy Bourke rounds up proceedings at the STM Annual US Conference, held in Washington DC, USA, in April (…)

Academia on the rise at Olympia

London Book Fair had an extra focus on academic publishing this year. Here, we report on some of the highlights from Olympia (…)

Scholarly searching

In the world of academic publishing, what does discovery really mean? Six key industry figures offer their opinions (…)

Information should become ‘central to global development’

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) deputy general secretary Stuart Hamilton will be speaking at this year’s CILIP Conference. Here he talks about how information will shape global development goals and how information professionals the world over can shape their communities (…)

Rising metrics need to go deeper

Interest in new metrics to demonstrate the impact of research has grown rapidly over recent years, and shows no sign of slowing down,writes David Stuart »