The UK's Research Information Network (RIN) has completed a second series of case studies to provide a detailed analysis of how humanities researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources. The project focuses on the behaviours and needs of researchers working in a number of subject or disciplinary areas in the humanities. It follows the first round of case studies in the life sciences, released in November 2009.
The overall aim of the RIN case studies was to develop an in-depth understanding of humanities researchers' approaches to discovering, accessing, analysing, managing, creating, refining and disseminating information resources; provide comparisons between the behaviours and needs of researchers in different subjects/disciplines, research teams or institutional contexts; and identify barriers to more effective performance in using, creating, managing and exchanging information resources, and suggest how they might be overcome.
A consortium comprising Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford e-Research Centre was appointed as contractor for the study. Other members of the consortium included the Centre for Digital Humanities (Univeristy College London), the Department of Information Studies (University College London) and the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Maastricht University).
The report is available to download on the main project page.
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