Archives: August 2011

Lend me your ears dear university web managers!

JISC is considering future opportunities for innovation funding in collaboration with university web departments who manage the .ac.uk pages of their website, and we’d like to make sure that what we are proposing would be of value to the sector … Read more

App-ortunity Knocks: Mobile and the future of the library

How do universities and their libraries respond to an increasingly mobile world?  At what point does mobile find itself at the heart of what a university does?  Are we at a tipping point with those that fail to address students’ … Read more

UK repositories: working together

We now have approximately 198 repositories in the UK and JISC programmes have played a major part in the set up and development of this infrastructure. Drivers for this growth vary from open access to research, to better information management … Read more

Reviewing peer review

Last month I was asked to submit evidence to the UK parliament’s science and technology committee for their report about peer review. Though most researchers agree with the principles of peer review, many feel there is room to improve how … Read more

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