« Seven months after the United Kingdom voters expressed their will to leave the European Single Market and almost one year after the referendum was announced, we have analysed the post-Brexit effects on UK participation to the European funding scheme Horizon 2020. (…) »
« As part of delivering on the vision of a UK national digital library, Jisc and OCLC announce a partnership to build a new shared service that will aggregate academic bibliographic data at scale, improving library collection management and resource discovery for students and researchers.
Jisc, the digital…
« Loughborough University is proud of its achievements in research to date and has ambitious plans for the future in line with the ‘Building Excellence’ strategy. The quality of our research clearly affects the academic, social, economic and environmental impact it has. Maximising the visibility of our research is equally important…
« One Cardiff University student’s PhD project is offering artists access to thousands of digital versions of historical Shakespeare illustrations – allowing anyone to incorporate the images into their own creative process or finished work. And the best part – it’s free.
Recent English Literature PhD graduate Dr Michael Goodman is behind the…
« Les présidents des académies des sciences de France, d’Allemagne et de Grande-Bretagne ont remis officiellement à monsieur Carlos Moedas, Commissaire européen à la recherche, le 12 décembre 2016 à Bruxelles, une déclaration commune intitulée : « Déclaration sur les publications scientifiques par trois académies nationales – Académie des sciences,…
« L’ADBU publie, avec le soutien du Ministère de l’Education Nationale de l’Enseignement
supérieur et de la Recherche (MENESR), une étude comparative inédite d’impact de la
fouille de textes (TDM*) sur la compétitivité de la recherche en France et en Grande-
Bretagne, deux pays dans lesquels…
« Two ways in which we have supported institutions in meeting the challenges of implementing open access over the last couple of years are through the open access good practice initiative and the repository technical support project.
While a great deal of progress…
« (…) Il y a tout juste 25 ans, le 23 août 1991, l’ingénieur britannique Sir Tim Berners-Lee ouvrait l’accès du «world wide web» aux internautes du monde entier. Cet «Internaut Day», fêté comme il se doit ici, fait partie des hauts-faits en matière informatique du Royaume-Uni, qui se…
« Libraries Deliver: Ambition sets out the government’s and Taskforce’s vision for, and commitment to, public libraries in England and provides a focus for joint action. (…)
It sets out a bold and dynamic direction of travel for the next 5 years, describing how library services in…
« On behalf of UK institutions, Jisc Collections has signed an agreement with Elsevier, covering access to research publications. The five-year, opt-in agreement offers subscription access to around 2,116 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect online platform.
The agreement comes as a result of…
