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Mobile technologies and the law

14 Mar 2012 (14:00 - 16:00)

This webcast will highlight good legal practice for institutions across a range of concern areas allowing colleges and universities to go forward with an awareness of the legal risks and being confident in compliance. It will provide an opportunity to hear first hand how colleges and universities...

An introduction to free and open source software

14 Mar 2012 (13:30 - 14:30)
Online

This webinar will introduce the ideas behind free and open source software, both for users and for developers. We will tour the basic licence types and discuss the development and membership of communities around free and open source software. We will also look at how to assess open source...

Choosing the right open source licence

7 Mar 2012
Online

There are many free and open source software licences, and while they all broadly attempt to facilitate the same things, they also have some differences. Some of the major differences can be grouped together into categories, and this talk acts as an introduction to these categories. Having attended...

Curation in the cloud workshop

7 Mar 2012 for 2 days
Hallam Conference Centre

The aim of this 2-day workshop is to assess the potential and practicalities of using cloud-based solutions for the curation and long-term preservation of digital materials, focusing particularly on data that originates from research or that supports research processes. In recent years the hype...

How to measure use and impact of your journal subscriptions

29 Feb 2012 (13:30 - 14:30)
Online

This webinar will offer a practical demonstration of JUSP, and will outline how the team is working with publishers to deliver usage statistics. It will also introduce the main benefits of the service for libraries. During times of economic constraint, accurate and comparable usage reports are...