Transitions in Scholarly Communications</h1> <article> <h1>Transitions in Scholarly Communications</h1> <p>Michael Jubb — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:13:33 +0000</p> <p>Many readers will know that the <span class="caps">RIN</span> is currently embarking, in concert with <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/"><span class="caps">JISC</span></a> and a range of other bodies in the library, publishing and research funding communities, on a portfolio of projects under the heading of transitions in scholarly communications.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Peer review: good for all purposes?</h1> <p>Catherine Gray — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</p> <p>Peer review is both a principle and a set of mechanisms at the heart of the arrangements for evaluating and assuring the quality of research. A new guide from the Research Information Network provides for researchers and others an outline of how the peer review system works, and highlights some of the challenges as well as the opportunities it faces in the internet age.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Training talented researchers for society: what about their information skills?</h1> <p>Stephane Goldstein — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:34:22 +0000</p> <P>What is the role of doctoral training in advanced knowledge-based economies? This is the fundamental question posed by a report published last week by the <A href="http://www.leru.org/">League of European Research Universities</a>, on <A href="http://www.leru.org/file.php?type=download&id=1888"><EM>Doctoral degrees beyond 2010: Training talented researchers for society</em></a><EM>.</em></p> </article> <article> <h1>Media mentions - February 2010</h1> <p>Sarah — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:21:52 +0000</p> <p><span class="caps">RIN</span> mentions in the media and blogs during February 2010.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Connecting users with content and the problem of ‘diluted’ library identities</h1> <p>Sarah — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:45:24 +0000</p> <p>I attended a <a href="http://www.aslib.co.uk/members/engineering/news.htm">Association for Information Management (<span class="caps">ASLIB</span>) Engineering and Technology Group</a> and British Library (<span class="caps">BL</span>) event on 2 March, highlighting some of the future developments and electronic access to the <span class="caps">BL</span>’s resources in these subject areas.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Research information, what information?</h1> <p>Sarah — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:54:07 +0000</p> <p>The <span class="caps">RIN</span>’s Head of Programmes, Stéphane Goldstein ran a session on researchers’ information-handling skills and training at the Annual Good Practice Conference, organised by the <a href="http://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/1754/South-West-and-Wales-Hub.html" target="_blank">Vitae South West and Wales Hub</a> in Cardiff on 24 February 2010.</p> <p>The event was attended by 80 people, mainly <span class="caps">HEI</span> research ofﬁce managers, training coordinators and human resources staff.</p><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-attachments"> <div class="field-label">Attachments: </div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="filefield-file clear-block"><div class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf"></div><a href="http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/Research-information-vitae-south-west-hub-feb19.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=477584" title="Research-information-vitae-south-west-hub-feb19.pdf">Research information? What information? presentation</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>All change at the European Commission</h1> <p>Stephane Goldstein — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:44:31 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> </div> </div> </div> <P>The new <A href="http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm">European Commission</a> was sworn in a couple of weeks ago, several months late owing to the time it took for the appointees to be approved by the European Parliament.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Brain attacks! Is the Internet changing the way we think?</h1> <p>Sarah — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:48:19 +0000</p> <p>There’s been a ﬂurry of articles this week about the effects of the internet on young people’s minds, sparked by <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/"><span class="caps">BBC2</span>’s Virtual Revolution</a> series, exploring how the web is reshaping our lives.</p> <p>The next episode airing this weekend (20 Feb) will include University College London’s David Nicholas (part of the <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/"><span class="caps">CIBER</span> team</a>) unveiling conclusions about the way children’s brains in the ‘internet age’ are changing.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Interactivity in Paris</h1> <p>Stephane Goldstein — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:30:16 +0000</p> <p>Interactive publications are cool, really cool. Journal articles can be brought to life with a wealth of features that enable readers to access and manipulate underpinning information, visualise data in all sorts of dynamic (and often attractive) ways, change the way that they are presented and modelled, in short, really get under the virtual skin of the written text.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Coffee, research assessment and Danish</h1> <p>Sally Curry — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:23:56 +0000</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I spoke at a conference on the subject of research publication and assessment in Denmark at the end of January, giving an overview of the <span class="caps">UK</span>’s perspective. </p><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-attachments"> <div class="field-label">Attachments: </div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="filefield-file clear-block"><div class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf"></div><a href="http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/Research-assessment-presentation-aarhus.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=83536" title="Research-assessment-presentation-aarhus.pdf">Research assessment and publication behaviour - presentation at Aarhus</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </main></body></html>