The Impact Factor
“We are historians, we’ve never studied people who answer back”. This is how a team member from the Old Bailey Online, a successful resource which provides access to nearly 200,000 trials of London’s central court 1674-1913, summed up the challenge they faced when trying to measure the impact of their digital resource on research, teaching and learning. This statement is... >>
Digital resources made possible by Jisc
The UK is a knowledge economy and as the coalition government looks to also to make it a digital one - how is Jisc helping to share the UK’s knowledge and our resources online? In my role at Jisc I look after our content programme which brings scholarly collections into the digital age - taking journals, newspapers, manuscripts, photographs and... >>
Digital content and internet business models
In the week following what President Obama described innovation as a “Sputnik moment” and Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport launched the Year of Philanthropy – an attempt to get more FTSE100 businesses to provide financial support for the arts - it seems timely to consider how innovation in a time of fiscal tightening can be... >>
Isn't Google digitising everything anyway?
Since Google embarked on its scanning of major world book libraries, there has been the assumption that there is little more to do in the field of digitisation. Yet this is far from the truth. Opinions vary, but it is probably fair to say that more than 95% of the world books, magazines, newspapers, videos, films, documents still lay hidden... >>