...John Dalling; Pauline Rafferty Purpose – This paper aims to report a small-scale study that investigated attitudes to open source library management systems (LMS)s in UK higher education libraries. The study sought to establish why the sector has been slow to adopt this technology, and how...

... investment (£14m) in Higher Education (HE) repository and digital content infrastructure with the vision of establishing a network of digital resources and services to improve significantly content use and curation. In 2006 JISC had commissioned a study to map out the future for repositories...

... Group Publishing Limited 2010 Portals Electronic media Doctors Psychiatry Higher education Nigeria The advent of internet technology has enabled health professionals to obtain and share vast amounts of health care information. Physicians all over the world use online databases...

....   Devine and F.   Egger‐Sider . Going beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching . London : Facet Publishing   2009 . 155 pp , ISBN: 978‐185604‐658‐9   £44.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Information literacy Higher education Search...

...@beds.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Information literacy Worldwide web Higher education The prophets of doom are predicting the end of librarianship as it has been known. Printed journals are being dumped, the “punters” are just “Googling”, and the e‐book is threatening...

... space retrieval model to develop the personalised information support for teaching and research in a higher education institution. Findings There are practical constraints in the implementation stage. There is considerable difficulty in getting real and correct user interests and mapping them...

...Andrew Cox © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Higher education United Kingdom Universities Work identity Worldwide web Article Type: Award for excellence From: Program: electronic library and information systems, Volume 42, Issue 4 Andrew Cox...

... 2.0 technologies in higher education is still a new phenomenon and its integration into teaching and learning is in the initial phase. The report Open Educational Practices and Resources. OLCOS Roadmap 2012 (Guntram, 2007) which is based on research work, expert workshops and other...

... integration work and the use of the PRINCE2 methodology for engaging institutional support. Originality/value This paper introduces a heavily integrated repository system within UK higher education. A lack of literature on this topic suggests that this paper could be beneficial for others considering...

... often make up the majority of resources available in higher educational establishments. For example, at the University of Glamorgan around 6,000 e‐journals are held compared to about 1,000 print journals. The availability of e‐books is also growing rapidly. Glamorgan currently offers full‐text access...

... and attitudinal data, but also for the discursive interpretative repertoires in use. Findings The paper examines the diverse backgrounds, occupational trajectories, organisational positions, job roles and status of practitioners working in “web management” in UK higher education. The discursive divide between...

...Mel Collier Purpose This paper sets out to review how the business of libraries in higher education has changed with the impact of the digital library during the latest decade of Program, in which the content of the journal swung decisively from being primarily about library management...

... of material: Computer software Higher education Digital libraries India Academic institutions of higher education have an obvious interest in the collection and preservation of their research output and making this accessible in the national as well as the international arena. This act...

... councils have proposed to make it mandatory for papers which result from Council‐funded research to be deposited in openly available repositories at the earliest opportunity. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) supports further and higher education in the UK by providing strategic guidance...

... to determine whether a project‐based approach recognises and meets the needs of historians, or in manufacturing a digital semblance, does it in fact mislead historians. Design/methodology/approach The context in UK higher education and the archives domain of an emphasis on the digitisation of resources...

... that the proposals and recommendations they promoted to the wider higher education (HE) community in the UK were co‐ordinated. The first seminar, which was held at the ULL in January 2004, was fully booked within days of being advertised (www.rgu.ac.uk/library/uk‐theses.htm). The event was intended to allow...

...Christine Urquhart; Rhian Thomas; Ray Lonsdale; Siân Spink; Alison Yeoman; Roger Fenton; Chris Armstrong The aim of the JUSTEIS project over the first three cycles (1999‐2002) was to examine the uptake and use of electronic information services in higher education in the UK, so that planning...

... (PELICAN, 2002); and the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC) has various working groups on delivering content in higher education (HE) and further education (FE), including one for e‐books. Online Publishing News reported in January 2002 that according to a new report from IDC (Maclachlan...

...Chris J. Armstrong Edited by Peter   Roberts and Mark   Chambers . Digital Developments in Higher Education: Theory and Practice . London : Taylor Graham   2001 . 190 pp. , ISBN: 0‐947568‐78‐6   £30 © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Digitisation Higher education...

...Chris Armstrong; Roger Fenton; Ray Lonsdale; David Stoker; Rhian Thomas; Christine Urquhart This paper reports findings from the first annual cycle of a three‐year research project on the provision and use of electronic information systems (EIS) within higher education in the UK. The project, JISC...