One-third of Americans use public library for Net access, says study - March 29, 2010
Nearly one-third of Americans aged 14 and above – roughly 77 million people – used a public library computer or wireless network to access the Internet in the past year, according to a recently released national report. The report, Opportunity for All: How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access… Read More
OCLC’ new report suggests strategies to mitigate risks facing research libraries - March 26, 2010
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has released a new report titled ‘Research Libraries, Risk and Systemic Change’. The report provides an overview of the most significant risks facing research libraries and suggests strategies to mitigate them. OCLC Research engaged an organisation experienced in conducting risk… Read More
Thomson Reuters study examines how physicians prescribe psychiatric drugs - March 23, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that it has conducted a study that outlines the medical conditions that US physicians reported treating with psychiatric drugs. The research, sponsored by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), was published in the journal… Read More
Thomson Reuters launches Academic Reputation Survey - March 12, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has launched the Academic Reputation Survey, which will help inform the Times Higher Education’s influential World University Rankings. The survey reflects a new approach to data gathering and analytics to provide a one-of-a-kind resource to the global scholarly community. A… Read More
ALPSP releases findings from Scholarly Book Publishing Practice survey - March 10, 2010
The Association of Learning and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP) has published the Scholarly Book Publishing Practice Report - the findings of a survey of academic book publishers’ policies and practices - authored by Laura Cox and John Cox. Scholarly Book Publishing Practice is the first ALPSP… Read More
Thomson Reuters study examines research scenario in Australia and New Zealand - March 10, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has released a study examining research trends in Australia and New Zealand. The study shows broadening international collaboration in the research of Australia and, to a lesser degree, New Zealand, over the past 10 years. The US continues to be… Read More
US task force releases report on sustainable preservation of digital knowledge base - March 9, 2010
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access has published a new report titled ‘Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information’. The report says that a key societal challenge of the Information Age is to ensure that valued… Read More
HighWire releases results of librarians’ survey on e-books - March 5, 2010
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University libraries, has released the full results of a Fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to e-books. The survey, available online at http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/HighWireEBookSurvey2010.pdf, was conducted as part of HighWire's ongoing… Read More
JISC report puts forth cost computation models for universities adopting OA - February 26, 2010
The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has launched a new report that shows how universities can compute their cost-savings and increase their contribution to Corporate UK when they share their research papers through open access (OA). The ‘Modelling scholarly communication options: costs and benefits for… Read More
Study to assess role of libraries in supporting humanities PhD students - February 24, 2010
2CUL, a partnership between the libraries at Cornell University and Columbia University, has announced a study to discover if the library can help ameliorate high attrition and low completion rates for doctoral students in the humanities. The goal of the project is to listen to graduate… Read More
