On Demand Webinar: From Open Stacks to Open Descriptions
24 November 2021
Join three experts who will discuss the implications of linked data and entity descriptions across a range of important issues
OCLC
OCLC grant award 'to help improve library practices'
1 April 2021
Project will convene diverse group of experts, practitioners, and community members
Libraries, the cloud and Covid-19
6 October 2020
Thursday 12 March – Driving library value and impact with EZproxy Analytics
28 January 2020
Being able to demonstrate measurable impact and value is becoming critically important for academic libraries
Learning curves
25 November 2019
As the pressure to understand student success rises, Rebecca Pool asks: are libraries coming around to learning analytics?
Jisc launches three library services
29 July 2019
Jisc, the not-for-profit technology solutions provider for education and research, is launching three library services.
Library hub discover, Library hub compare, and Library hub cataloguing are aimed at making it easier for UK higher education libraries and researchers to access, discover and manage academic collections.
NBK a 'game-changer' for UK librarians
22 March 2019
A new National Bibliographic Knowledgebase has been hailed as a key piece of national data infrastructure for the UK
National Bibliographic Knowledgebase 'key UK infrastructure'
22 March 2019
NBK has made a great start providing one place for UK academic library data, writes Sarah Bartlett
From tradition to change
29 September 2017
Complex workflows and new services are driving developments in cloud-based library management systems, reports Rebecca Pool
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WMS saves libraries time and money to improve user services
1 October 2016
At the Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid, 'Our students define the future,' said Head Librarian, Amada Marcos Blázquez. The library provides 24/7 support, she explained, 'around the world, in courses, classrooms and MOOCs. All this can be achieved thanks to WorldShare® Management Services from OCLC.'
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Antonia Seymour, chief executive at IOP Publishing, and Andrew Barker, director of library services and learning development at Lancaster University, talk about hybrid working and re-thinking how we work
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
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Siân Harris looks at what role cloud-based services play in libraries today, their benefits and limitations and what challenges remain
Charlie Rapple
Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple explains her passion for accelerating the dissemination – and impact – of science
Sowmya Swaminathan
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
Helen Lippell
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Mark Hahnel
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Miriam Maus
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing
