‘Open Access comes of age’ was the headline in a recent issue of Nature News, the article reporting a recent study published in Public Library of Science One, that found that the number of articles in freely accessible journals is growing at a rate of 20%...
The latest update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History, launched on 7 June 2011, contains 5,620 new records, bringing the overall total to 504,000. You can read more about the Bibliography here; subscribers and members of subscribing institutions can go...
Last Wednesday, we had a JISC programme meeting which all of the projects attended. There were some really high-profile projects there but I was suprised that so few ‘researchers’ attended – it was dominated by software professionals (I should...
The 2010 November issue of The Local Historian has an article by Jacquelené Fillmore entitled, Local history internet sites: an update for 2010. She has helpfully published a series of such articles since 2007 (see volumes and issues, 37:3; 38:3, 39:1 and 39:3). As...
The August 2010 issue of the Journal of Victorian Culture has a digital forum in which the quantitative research of digital resources is discussed. There are three contributions which document both the production of such resources and their uses. Richard Deswarte...
Web usability can loosely be defined as the ease with which someone can achieve a particular goal using a website. This might be buying a book, paying for a TV licence, registering for an event, or commenting on a historical source. Whatever the activity, the system...
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