2011-12-15 16:38
Reading in the digital enviroment was the theme of Dave Nicholas' presentation at the IV Jornada profesional de la red de Bibliotecas del IC, organised by the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid on 15 December 2011. [download pdf ppt]
2011-11-24 18:55
The pre-conference to Academic Publishing in Europe (Berlin, 23–25 January 2012), will open with a presentation by Dave Nicholas and Anthony Watkinson considering the place of the ‘Article of the Future’ in a world of mobile data, e-books, apps and social media.
2011-11-18 15:45
Coming of Age? Strategic Directions for Digital Repositories is the third in a series for the Charleston Observatory.
Digital repositories have been with us for a decade now and have become an established component of an increasingly complex scholarly communications landscape. This study, sponsored by Emerald, Elsevier, the Institute of Physics and the Research Information Network, takes the pulse of digital repositories: how far have they come, what have they achieved, and where are they going next? How far are they meeting users needs and expectations? We want to identify best practice, as well as seeing how they are dealing with emerging issues like data and social media.
2011-11-08 21:15
Dave Nicholas will be presenting some results from CIBER's research for the Europeana Connect project to the Institute of Information and Book Studies conference, University of Warsaw on 8th November. The conference, funded by Fundacja Rozwoju Społeczeństwa Informacyjnego, has the theme Updating the Curricula for Rural Librarians’ Academic Education and professor Nicholas' subject is Public libraries, smart phones and Europeana.
2011-10-05 11:10
Europeana, the European digital library, museum & archive is a European Commission initiative to give direct access to digital objects: video, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers. EuropeanaConnect is one of a number of projects part-funded by the EC's eContentplus programme contributing technology solutions and content to Europeana.eu.
EuropeanaTech (Vienna, 4-5 October 2011) is EuropeanaConnect's final conference focusing on the technical challenge of making attractive and easy public digital access to cultural and scientific information. An important goal is to build the community of technical and scientific experts in the field. It will showcase services and activities that are best examples of an open Digital Culture and will bring together the software development community with cultural domain professionals, to strengthen networks and establish future collaboration.
As part of the Explore & Discover track, on 5. October CIBER will be presenting ‘Culture on-the-Go’ the results of a deep-log analysis focussed on smart-phones and tablets. With its support of mobile and location aware devices for “playful exploration, discovery and contextualisation” Europeana should have natural affinity with one important set of international roamers— the cultural tourist. But how far has Europeana met a demand for culture on-the-go?
2011-09-30 22:46
“How have digital technologies changed research? What are the new challenges they pose? What role should a research library play in the 21st century? Growing Knowledge at the British Library explores these questions with our researchers in order to inform the debate on the future of research”
The evaluation of the exhibition by CIBER Research was funded by the British Library and JISC.
2011-08-05 23:13
Three recent publications by the CIBER research team extend the analysis of social media —Are social media impacting on research?— first presented at the Charleston Conference in November 2011.
Social Media, Academic Research and the Role of University LibrariesCIBER are also working with the Research Information Network to combine the CIBER social media survey with one conducted by RIN —If you build it, will they come?— to create a large social media evidence-base.
2011-08-05 23:25
Institutional responses have been with us over a decade now and have big and diverse ambitions —some controversial— now there are signs that they begin to bear fruit. But how far have they come? At the annual Charleston Conference in November 2011 CIBER will be presenting the third report from the Charleston Observatory: Coming of Age: Strategic directions for digital repositories, sponsored by Emerald, Elsevier, Institute of Physics and the Research Information Network.
2011-07-27 07:03
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The idea of measuring research impact by means of citation rates was first mooted in 1955 in an article in Science. Not long after, ISI developed the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and no one looked back. But JIF only models one specific behaviour by a relatively small group, offering a limited measure of ‘impact’ as generally understood. It says nothing about how journals reach out to the wider audiences who make up the bulk of their readership.
CIBER was commissioned by UKSG and COUNTER to look at the feasibility of an alternative measure, the Journal Usage Factor, based on download statistics rather than citations. Our report explores the following questions:
Download CIBER's 45 page The journal usage factor: exploratory data analysis and COUNTER's 22 page results, recommendations and next steps.
2011-06-07 22:18
Free access was the theme of the Swedish Library Association's three day conference (Biblioteksdagarna 2011) in Visby, 11–13 May 2011.
David Nicholas: Implications of the digital transition for libraries. Biblioteksdagarna 2011 from Svensk Biblioteksförening on Vimeo.
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