Tag: RIN
JISC and Other UK Organizations Call For All UK Metadata to Be Openly Accessible
From a JISC Announcement: Unlocking the descriptive information or metadata about digital content, articles, books and research is the key to making it more useful, according to the JISC-funded resource discovery taskforce as it embarks on a new programme of work. If all UK metadata was made openly accessible, the taskforce says, then the resources […]
New Report: "Reinventing Research? Information Practices in the Humanities"
Direct to Full Text Report (84 Pages; PDF) A new report (case study) from the UK’s Research Information Network: This new report is the second in a series of case studies to provide a detailed analysis of how researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources. This project focuses on the behaviours and needs […]
New Report from RIN and RLUK: "The Value of Libraries for Research and Researchers"
From a Post by Catherine Gray: This jointly commissioned RIN and RLUK report presents the findings of a systematic study of the value of the services that libraries in the UK provide to researchers, and of the contributions that libraries from a wide range of institutions make to institutional research performance. The aim was to identify […]
