Research Information - News Europe's premier magazine for online content and information management. http://www.researchinformation.info/ Copyright Europa Science Making the case for innovation Collaborating on ways to organise and share information can help the research community to innovate, writes Sarah Porter, head of innovation at JISC http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=635 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=635 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Open-access physics consortium gets award CERN/SCOAP3 is awarded the SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=636 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=636 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Auraria Library chooses Bibliotheca hybrid RFID system Three academic institutions in Denver will have hybrid RFID solutions http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=637 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=637 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Google and KB team up on book digitisation The National Library of the Netherlands has begun a partnership with Google Book Search to digitise more than 160,000 public domain books http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=638 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=638 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Southampton department releases public data in open linked data format The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton has become the UK's first university department to release all its public data in open linked data format for public reuse http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=639 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=639 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Elsevier tests new peer-review approach Elsevier is piloting a new peer-review programme for Chemical Physics Letters where reviewers can choose which articles they would like to review http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=633 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=633 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100 NISO launches new standards projects The National Information Standards Organization has launched six new standard or recommended practice development projects in the past six months http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=634 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=634 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100 CRL works with British Library on thesis access Center for Research Libraries is working with the British Library to provide web access to dissertations and theses through the EThOS database http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=631 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=631 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Bodleian Libraries get £1.5 million for digitisation A gift of £1.5 million has been given to the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford to support library digitisation initiatives and digital imaging facilities http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=632 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=632 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Queen honours IOP Publishing's MD Jerry Cowhig, managing director of IOP Publishing, has been made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) 'for services to science' in the Queen's Birthday Honours list http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=629 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=629 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Google will scan Austrian books Austria's national library has struck a 30-million-euro deal with Google to digitise 400,000 copyright-free books, spanning 400 years of European history http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=630 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=630 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Digging into data in new ways Alastair Dunning discusses how new large-scale data analysis techniques of many different types of data sets can give researchers new insight http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=626 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=626 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100 Elsevier buys Collexis Elsevier has bought Collexis Holdings, which develops semantic technology and knowledge discovery software http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=627 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=627 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100 OA uptake still small, says OUP study Uptake of the open-access option on Oxford Journals' papers is still small five years after the publishers' Oxford Open initiative first launched http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=628 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=628 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100 First organisations endorse KBART recommendations The American Institute of Physics, Ex Libris, Serials Solutions and OCLC are the first organisations have endorsed the Phase I recommendations of the KBART Working Group http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=625 http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=625 Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 +0100