25/11/2016
« A new website for the NIHR Journals Library launched today. By incorporating project information into the existing wealth of open access data, the new site provides access…
16/11/2016
« After much discussion, debate, and research, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016 is post-truth – an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which…
16/11/2016
« The University has announced a new development in its Digital Education Strategy: a partnership with edX which means that, as from today, people can start…
07/11/2016
« The UK’s research institutions and the world-leading provider of science, technology and medical information products and services signed today a landmark agreement granting academics access to globally-published, high-quality…
28/10/2016
« (…) 2015/16 was the first full year in which we were guided by the strategic vision articulated in Living Knowledge: The British Library 2015–2023. Published in January last year, Living…
27/10/2016
« In a recent blog post, Jisc Collections reported how the Springer Compact agreement was progressing in the UK. This blog post assesses the progress made in…
26/10/2016
« We are pleased to announce that the third Open Access Direct is now available on Jisc’s Open Access Website; it outlines much of the work we’ve…
25/10/2016
« This report is a comparative study of the different offset agreements that Jisc Collections has negotiated to date on behalf of UK academic libraries. It relies on financial data provided…
17/10/2016
« Repositories are an established part of the research communication process and there are many policies which now have requirements for open access to published research using a repository.…
05/10/2016
« Snapshot. A cultural probe study exploring the research and information behaviour of postdocs and PhD students at the University of Cambridge. THE FUTURELIB PROGRAMME Futurelib is an innovation programme exploring…