Confidentiality of PhD Theses in the UK</h1> <article> <h1>Confidentiality of PhD Theses in the UK</h1> <p>drtinabarnes — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:19:05 +0000</p> <p>The tension in the modern research environment between the long-standing academic principle of free and open access to research and the commercial need for conﬁdentiality to protect competitive advantage, is well known to the academic community.</p> </article> <article> <h1>My first library conference as a personal assistant</h1> <p>Kissley Leonor — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:31:31 +0000</p> <P>As a personal assistant part of the job is organising travel, accommodation and papers for managers attending conferences abroad. The other part is hoping everything runs smoothly since you won’t be there with them.</p> <P>It’s rare to see a <span class="caps">PA</span> at a library conference. Apart from the host assistants, I was the only <span class="caps">PA</span> delegate at the <A href="http://www.libereurope.eu/" target="_blank"><span class="caps">LIBER</span></a> Annual Conference at Aarhus University, Denmark.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Building on strong citations</h1> <p>ashtonphil — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:27:48 +0000</p> <p>Anyone reading this blog is likely to agree that we are at the beginning of potentially the most exciting, creative and fruitful period in the history of science.</p> <p>In biology we can now sequence whole genomes in less time than it took to sequence a single gene a few years ago, big physics is booming at <span class="caps">CERN</span> and the Diamond Light Source and information and communication technologies are more advanced and ubiquitous than was imaginable just a decade or two ago.<br /><br /></p> </article> <article> <h1>It is hard to say goodbye</h1> <p>Branwen Hide — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:42:37 +0000</p> <p>During the course of your research project how many times have you banged your head against a wall or wanted to pack it all in? I hope this makes you smile and realise we have all been there. I wrote this during a particularly tough spell during my PhD. I recently handed my corrections in and can tell you it does get better, and there comes a time when you only remember the good bits. Enjoy.</p> <p>Dear Project</p> </article> <article> <h1>Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences: are we being misled?</h1> <p>alangomersall1 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:17:08 +0000</p> <p class="MsoNormal">At the Centre for Evidence <span class="amp">&</span> Policy we examine a large number of systematic reviews in order to provide extended abstracts for the <span class="caps">UK</span> database Social Care Online. We are increasingly concerned that many of those we initially select as speciﬁcally relevant to the <span class="caps">UK</span> are not actually systematic at all even though this is claimed in the title.</p> </article> <article> <h1>To tweet or not to tweet?</h1> <p>Ellen Collins — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:41:02 +0000</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Presenting at a conference last week, I felt a familiar thrill of trepidation when an audience member raised their hand. Are they about to question my study’s methods? Its ﬁndings? Its worth? So I was somewhat unprepared for the enquiry that emerged: ‘Do you happen to know the hashtag for this event?’</p> </article> <article> <h1>Raising your internal profile as an academic liaison librarian</h1> <p>emmawoods — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:03:58 +0000</p> <p>As part of a task and ﬁnish group on internal marketing of academic liaison librarians at the University of Westminster, I posted a message to a couple of <a href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/">JISCmail</a> lists to see what other librarians do in this respect. As ever, I was delighted by the number of responses I received and the amount of interest there is on this topic.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Do supervisors have to act as editors?</h1> <p>lizorna — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:50:28 +0000</p> <p>The question sometimes comes up when I talk with academic staff who are on their institution’s training course for supervisors, about the support research students need from their supervisors in managing information and in using it to produce a dissertation that does justice to the quality of their research.</p> </article> <article> <h1>On peer review</h1> <p>richardpgrant — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:13:57 +0000</p> <p>I’m a fan of peer review. There, I’ve said it. And I’m not saying it in the way that Sir Winston Churchill famously spoke of democracy; “the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.”</p> </article> <article> <h1>e-books – A (fairly) comprehensive aggregation of e-book metadata is at hand at last!</h1> <p>Sally Curry — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:32:01 +0000</p> <p>Having <a title="e-books a centralised source of discovery" href="http://www.rin.ac.uk/blogs/team/sally-curry/e-books-centralised-source-discovery-hand-last" target="_blank">blogged</a> about the SWETSWise’s promised new online service to allow librarians (and others) to discover which books are available in e-format, and to compare purchasing models, licence conditions and prices, last autumn, I can now state that it has come to pass.</p> </article> </main></body></html>