When I started in Higher Education [HE] as a Lecturer in Biomedicine in 2002, I thought a good teacher was someone who could present their subject in an interesting manner in a PowerPoint presentation for an hour. My ...
IRUS-UK is a new national standards-based statistics aggregation service for institutional repositories in the UK. The service processes raw usage data from repositories, consolidating those data into COUNTER compliant ...
Swan, Alma; Needham, Paul A. S.; Probets, Steve; Muir, Adrienne; Oppenheim, Charles; O'Brien, Ann; Hardy, Rachel; Rowland, Fytton; Brown, Sheridan(Alpsp Publications Centre, 2005-01-12)
A study carried out for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee examined
models for the provision of access to material in institutional and subject-
based archives and in open access journals. Their relative merits ...
Following from the success of the 2003 LibQUAL+ UK Pilot, SCONUL's Advisory
Committee on Performance Improvement (ACPI) are coordinating a consortium of
SCONUL libraries in LibQUAL+ 2004. LibQUAL+ is a World Wide Web ...
Presents an overview of the SCONUL LibQUAL+ participation, reports some of the
overall results of the 2003-2005 SCONUL cohorts, and describes some feedback
from participants and the lessons learnt from the process. The ...
Shepherd, Peter T.; Woodward, Hazel(United Kingdom Serials Group, 2009-11)
Release 1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works was published in 2006 and provides an international standard for vendor recording and reporting of the usage of e-books and reference works. By July ...
The project set out to explore cultural barriers which constrain the engagement of research
communities at two different institutions with their respective Institutional Repositories (IRs). Broadly
the goals of the project ...
The aim of PIRUS (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) was to develop COUNTER-compliant standards and usage reports at the individual article level that can be implemented by any entity (publisher, ...
This paper outlines the recent work of the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the area of
e-books. The JISC Collections Team is responsible for negotiating deals with publishers and aggregators of
e-content ...
Watson, Sarah(United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG), 2007-11)
This article reports the findings of an author study at Cranfield University. The study investigated authors' publishing behaviours, attitudes, concerns, and their awareness and use of their institutional repository (IR), ...
In 1998 the UK created the National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative (NESLI) to increase and improve access to electronic journals and to negotiate license agreements on behalf of academic libraries. The use of a model ...
A grant of $55,832 is requested by Aslib from the National Science Foundation
over a period of two and a half years, for the purpose of the design and direction of
an investigation into the methodology of evaluation of ...
Warburton, B.; Cleverdon, Cyril W.; Aitchison, Jean(Cranfield Institute of Technology, 1961-06)
At the request of the Director of the Aslib Cranfield Project, the Library of Engiish Electric Company at Whetstone agreed to allow the Project Staff to carry out a test on their catalogue. This was required
in connection ...
Cleverdon, Cyril W.(Cranfield Institute of Technology, 1961-11)
In 1956 the National Science Foundation made a grant to Aslib for the
first stage of an investigation into the camparative efficiency of
four indexing systems, This stage of the work continued until March,
1959, and a ...
Cleverdon, Cyril W.(European Space Agency, 1977-07)
An evaluation test was made of an experimental data-base prepared
by the Space Documentation Service of the European Space Agency,
consisting of some 44,000 items from NASA STAR for 1973 and
1974. With this data-base ...
Cleverdon, Cyril W.; Harding, P.(Cranfield Institute of Technology, 1970)
The report covers the work undertaken in establishing and operating for a
period of six months an S.D.I. service in the field of precision engineering.
The performance and costs of the system are given and the problems ...