TechTarget, Google release report on online purchase patterns of IT professionals - October 24, 2008
Information technology media company TechTarget, Inc., US, has announced the completion of a joint research project with Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US. The study examined the online search behaviours of 2,200 enterprise IT professionals in North America, Europe and Asia when researching and purchasing… Read More
JISC report examines role and future of data scientists - October 23, 2008
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) recently published a report, according to which the future of data science should be organised and developed at international as well as institutional and discipline levels. The report, 'Skills, Role and Career Structure of Data Scientists and Curators -… Read More
Thomson Reuters survey analyses India’s rising scientific prominence - October 23, 2008
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the results of a survey assessing India's growing scientific prominence. In the September/October issue of Science Watch, Thomson Reuters analyses data from its National Science Indicators and Essential Science Indicators to show India's steady increase in research… Read More
Research and Markets unveils report on cataloging practices of academic libraries - October 22, 2008
Market research and data services provider Research and Markets, Ireland, has announced the addition of the 'Academic Library Cataloging Practices Benchmarks' report to its offerings. The report presents data from a survey of the cataloging practices of about 80 North American academic libraries. In more than… Read More
Online bookselling, greatest development of past 60 years, says survey - October 15, 2008
The organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair conducted a survey to find out how digitisation will influence the future of the publishing industry, and who will be the driving force behind it. More than 1,000 industry professionals from over 30 countries responded to the survey, issued… Read More
ALPSP releases third scholarly publishing practice survey on online journal publishing - October 15, 2008
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP), the international trade association for scholarly and professional publishers, has released the third in a series of ALPSP surveys undertaken to establish current scholarly publishing practices and designed to track changes in policy and practice since 2000.… Read More
ALPSP scholarly publishing practice survey on long-term digital preservation now available online - October 14, 2008
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the international trade association for scholarly and professional publishers, recently undertook a survey of its members to enhance awareness of long-term digital preservation issues and to establish the nature and extent of strategies that they have planned.… Read More
JISC survey on how librarians view the future - October 13, 2008
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) recently published a survey of 300 key library and Learning Resource Centre (LRC) staff from 83 higher (HE) and 201 further education (FE) institutions across the UK. The annual survey conducted on behalf of JISC by the JISC Monitoring Unit… Read More
ETE publishes articles introducing epidemiology content from non-English languages - October 10, 2008
The journal Emerging Themes in Epidemiology (ETE) has recently published a series of articles aimed at introducing content from epidemiological and public health journals to the global community of epidemiologists in a variety of languages. The series, titled "Beyond English: Accessing… Read More
Current publication practices may distort science, say researchers - October 8, 2008
Open access journal PLoS Medicine has published a paper in its latest issue, according to which the current system of publishing medical and scientific research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic. In their paper,… Read More
