Royaume-Uni

« A rich celebration of our cultural heritage, Discovering Literature is a free online learning resource that provides unprecedented access to the Library’s unique literary and historical collections. This phase of the project explores Shakespeare’s plays in relation to the social, political and cultural context in which they were written, and…

« Public access to publicly funded research’ has been one of the rallying calls of the global open access movement. Governments and public institutions around the world have mandated that publications supported by public funding sources should be publicly accessible. Publishers are experimenting with new models to widen access.…

« In February, a thought piece was issued jointly by Jisc, RLUK, SCONUL and ARMA which aimed to start a conversation about academic journal markets and progress in the UK towards Open Access. This…

« The Wellcome Trust has warned big publishers than unless they improve their service and lower their costs it could refuse to provide researchers with funds to publish in certain types of their journals.

Elsevier and Wiley have been singled out as regularly failing to put papers…

« We are pleased to announce the availability of SHERPA REF.

SHERPA REF beta is a web service – funded and endorsed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) – that allows authors and institutions to quickly, accurately and…

« (…) The report published by Digital Science with Universities UK and the UK Higher Education International Unit explores the implications of international research collaboration for UK universities.  The report’s authors analysed address data for the authors of articles and reviews in journals indexed by Thomson Reuters Web of…

« This paper summarises Copyright for Knowledge’s main priorities for the propose reforms to EU copyright law, and illustrates these with evidence and case studies from a range of universities and research organisations. (…) »

« Depuis le début de l’année, la Society of Authors, organe représentatif des auteurs au Royaume-Uni, attire l’attention des responsables politiques et du grand public sur la délicate situation des écrivains. Des revenus en baisse, un statut peu protecteur : la Society of Authors a mis au point une série…

 » Comments from researchers and colleagues have indicated some disquiet about the Creative Commons (CC-BY) licence in some areas of the academic community. However, in conversation with some legal people and contemporaries at other institutions (some of these exchanges are replicated at the end of the blog) one…

« Ce que l’on ne sait pas, c’est si Hugh est voué un jour à remplacer les « vrais » bibliothécaires de la bibliothèque universitaire…

Hugh pourrait prendre officiellement son poste au sein de la bibliothèque universitaire d’Aberystwyth, au Pays de Galles, à la rentrée de septembre 2016. Conçu pour répondre…