« Nearly two-thirds of UK researchers support the abolition of journal subscription fees and a move to open access, according to a major study.
A survey of 6,679 academics commissioned by Jisc and Research Libraries UK found that 64 per cent of respondents…
« (…)The first half of this report looks at article processing charges and subscription payments from UK higher education institutions. It looks at national trends in the number of payments, overall expenditure, and average price. It then takes a closer look at APCs by institution, publisher, type…
« The annual Competition looks for transformative project ideas which use the British Library’s digital collections and data in new and exciting ways.
After much deliberation and a strong number of entries this year, BL Labs is excited to…
« This paper reports analysis of data from higher education institutions in the UK on their experience of the open-access (OA) publishing market working within a policy environment favouring ‘Gold’ OA (OA publishing in journals). It models the ‘total cost of publication’ – comprising costs of journal subscriptions, OA…
« Suite au vote des britanniques pour le Brexit, la CPU exprime sa solidarité et sa sympathie envers les universités britanniques et leurs étudiants et enseignants –chercheurs avec lesquels elle souhaite poursuivre ses coopérations.
La conférence britannique des Présidents d’Université – Universities UK – s’est fortement mobilisée…
« Last year, ethnographic research into the experience and behaviour of students at Cambridge University led the Futurelib Programme to pilot a new web-based service to assist in the location of study spaces: Spacefinder.
The pilot service, which has now been running for…
« The Royal Society of Chemistry held, to our knowledge, the world’s first Twitter conference at 9am on February 5 th, 2015. The conference was a Twitter-only conference, allowing researchers to upload academic posters as tweets, replacing a physical meeting.
This paper reports the…
« We recently published our submission to the Libraries Taskforce consultation about its draft strategy – Libraries Deliver: An Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016-21. Today, we want to say a bit more about our having called upon the Taskforce to explore the opportunities for public…
« A referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union (EU) will take place on 23 June 2016. The Royal Society has gathered evidence about the influence of the UK’s relationship with the EU on research. We have looked at three areas; funding UK research, collaboration and…
