• CERES Search 

  Searle, Shannon (Cranfield University, 2023-04-26)
• CERES Takedown Policy 

  Library Service (2020-10-06)

  Takedown policy for the CERES repository
• IRUS-UK: making scholarly statistics count in UK repositories 

  Needham, Paul A. S.; Stone, Graham (UKSG, 2012-11)

  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 ...
• Developing a model for e-prints and open access journal content in UK further and higher education 

  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 ...
• The COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works – a primer 

  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 Embed Project: Final Report 

  Harrington, John; Betts-Gray, Mary (Cranfield University, 2009-03-31)

  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 ...
• PIRUS Final Report 

  Shepherd, Peter T.; Needham, Paul A. S. (2009-01)

  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, ...
• Acquiring E-Books for Academic Libraries 

  Woodward, Hazel (Igitur, Utrecht Publishing & Archiving Services, 2007)

  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 ...
• Authors' attitudes to, and awareness and use of, a university institutional repository. 

  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), ...
• The UK's National Electronic Site Licencing Initiative. 

  Woodward, Hazel (Haworth Press, 2001)

  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 ...
• Application for grant to the National Science Foundation, Washington [for] an investigation into the methodology of evaluation techniques based on a test of the MEDLARS system of the National Library of Medicine 

  Cleverdon, Cyril W. (1965-06)

  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 ...
• ASLIB Cranfield project - report on the first stage of a test on the Library catalogue of The English Electric Co. Ltd., Whetstone 

  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 ...
• Application for grant to the National Science Foundation, Washington [for] an investigation into the performance characteristics of descriptor languages 

  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 ...
• Proposals for an investigation into the efficiency of various retrieval systems 

  Cleverdon, Cyril W. (1956)
• The critical appraisal of information retrieval systems 

  Cleverdon, Cyril W. (1968-09)

  The paper reviews one set of methods which can be used in the critical appraisal of various stages of an information retrieval system.
• A comparative evaluation of searching by controlled language and natural language in experimental N.A.S.A. data base 

  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 ...
• Interim report on an investigation on mechanised information retrieval service in a specialised subject area 

  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 ...
• Electronic thesis development at Cranfield University 

  Bevan, Simon J. (Emerald, 2005-06)

  Abstract: Purpose – To describe the issues involved in the introduction of mandatory submission of electronic theses at Cranfield University. Design/methodology/approach – Background information on how the availability ...
• Licencing e-journals: UK style 

  Woodward, Hazel (Haworth, 2002)

  This presentation will describe the way in which academic libraries in the United Kingdom (UK) are licencing and accessing electronic journals (e-journals). This process is being facilitated by the higher and further (HE ...
• Management of printed and electronic serials. 

  Woodward, Hazel (Ashgate Publishing, 1999)

  Serial literature constitutes a major part of all academic libraries' collections, and typically accounts for more than half of their expenditure on library materials - often a great deal more than half. For many academic ...

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