Is the crowd opening up or dumbing down research?
19 July 2011
Alastair Dunning of JISC looks at some of the many ways that the public is contributing to digital research today
Industry trends
JISC calls for openly-accessible metadata
13 July 2011
A JISC-funded taskforce is arguing that unlocking the descriptive information about digital content, articles, books and research is the key to making it more useful
Copyright Clearance Center announces new CTO
11 July 2011
Copyright Clearance Center has named Haralambos "Babis" Marmanis as its chief technology officer and vice president, engineering
ALPSP announces new chief executive
7 July 2011
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers has appointed Sarah Durrant as its new chief executive
ACAP specifications handed over to standards body
16 June 2011
The latest version of the Automated Content Access Protocol has been released and responsibility for managing the specifications has been handed over to IPTC (International Press and Telecommunications Council)
German public supports World War I project
16 June 2011
Hundreds of participants of all ages have contributed a great variety of personal memorabilia from World War I to the online "First World War in everyday documents" project
Openness should 'go deep'
15 June 2011
Brian Kelly of the UK Web Focus challenges the higher-education community to go beyond open access to published research in the pursuit of openness
Report looks at impact of funding on digital resources
15 June 2011
A new Strategic Content Alliance/Ithaka S+R report examines funding practices to provide insight on post-grant sustainability for digital resources
Roundtable concludes open-access variety
2 June 2011
A roundtable discussion including publishers, researchers and librarians and hosted by JISC in the UK has concluded that the open-access landscape will be characterised by variety
Research Information e-book presentation available to watch online
26 May 2011
The presentation on e-books for scholarly research that editor Sian Harris gave at E-books and E-content 2011 can now be watched online
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