Analysis & opinion

12 January 2011

Neil Jacobs of JISC welcomes the news of Nature Publishing Group's new open-access platform and considers what this means for research

21 December 2010

Torsten Reimer of JISC looks at the potential of cloud computing in research

03 December 2010

Research Information editor Sian Harris spoke about 'Trends in e-books for research' in a seminar at the recent Online Information event in London. Take a look at the slides from the talk

29 October 2010

Efficiency must not come at the cost of effectiveness was the message coming out of the recent JISC research conference, writes Matthew Dovey and Nicola Yeeles

03 September 2010

John Latham of Coventry University describes a new network to help academic and commercial researchers exchange information about measurement

20 August 2010

Shortly after Jeff Stewart reviewed the benefits of Google Wave in the AugSep10 issue of Research Information the search engine giant announced it was dropping the tool. We ask what the implications are for developers

20 August 2010

A culture of sharing gives students more access to both inspiring research and high-quality teaching, writes David Kernohan of JISC

14 July 2010

Collaborating on ways to organise and share information can help the research community to innovate, writes Sarah Porter, head of innovation at JISC

10 June 2010

Alastair Dunning discusses how new large-scale data analysis techniques of many different types of data sets can give researchers new insight

18 May 2010

How to put the right technology at the heart of education and research was the theme of this year's JISC annual conference

28 April 2010

Researchers are increasingly turning to social tools to help in their research. Lawrie Phipps examines what this could mean for researchers and students

27 April 2010

Tom Wilkie reports back from the London Book Fair, where rights management was a hot topic for discussion

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