Elusive Quality
We talk a lot about data curation, but rarely about data quality. How do researchers determine if a dataset is appropriate for their intended purposes? They may need to know …
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Libraries Rebound – A Personal Partial Recap
In the three earlier posts Merrilee did a great job of summarizing the content of the three different themes – directly supporting researchers, special collections and institutional mission and space …
Read MoreComing to terms with disciplinary repositories
Academic librarians are coming to terms with the likelihood that institutional repositories and disciplinary repositories will coexist into the future. In order to provide good support to researchers, librarians should …
Read MoreOCLC Research 2011: “Seeking Synchronicity,” insights into virtual reference
At the end of 2011, we are doing a mini series of blog postings to reflect on some of the year’s highpoints. This posting is the second in the series. …
Read MoreSupporting research, and how we aren’t
OCLC Research and the UK’s Research Information Network conducted complementary studies of research support services in universities in the US and UK. Hot off the press today is a report, …
Read MoreThe Empires Fight Back – Globalization and Area Studies
Last week at our FutureCast meeting, Deborah Jakubs, University Librarian at Duke, gave us a thoughtful analysis of internationalizing education and research collections. She was commenting on Ben Wildavsky’s talk …
Read MoreEconomics of Scholarly Production: Supplemental Materials
At the Spring CNI Taskforce meeting last April, Karen Wetzel (Standards Program Manager at NISO) announced a new piece of work related to “supplemental materials” in journal articles. In the …
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Research dissemination and ‘the archive’
Ithaka S+R recently published its Faculty Survey 2009: Key Strategic Insights for Libraries, Publishers, and Societies. It considers the way faculty views of the library are changing, and analyses library …
Read MoreScholarly content and the cliff edge: the place of subject ‘repositories’
The famous (and famously reclusive) author J.D. Salinger died on 27 January this year, two days after the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns – a day which is …
Read MoreORCID and ISNI: Author, Swineherd, Taxman, Alcohol Researcher
At recent meetings I attended in Washington D.C. there was significant hallway discussion about the Open Researcher Contributor Identification (ORCID) initiative. Given the science orientation of the meetings this initiative …
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