(11 Dec 2023) There are hundreds of websites designed to support chemists at every level across all aspects of their work, whether that’s a student interpreting a complicated NMR spectrum, a technician searching for safety information, or a principal investigator editing a paper. Chemistry World has gathered a selection of informational resources, online tools and…
(1 June 2017) There is no one, standard definition of Open Educational Resources. However, the following broad definition of OERs from OER Commons seems to be generally accepted by the community: Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student…
UK wide survey examines the attitudes of practitioners within higher education and cites the growing importance of online libraries to academics (15 June 2016) The 2015 survey of academics, jointly commissioned by Jisc and RLUK and conducted by research organisation Ithaka S+R, was launched today and has revealed a substantial increase in the way academics…
(25 August 2014) The National Library of Medicine, NLM, through the Disaster Information Management Research Center, has published a list of resources related to the 2014 ebola outbreak. They include maps, social media, journal literature and organizations with an interest in the topic. The list is here.
(May 2013) The volume of freely available online resources continues to grow exponentially. Taylor & Francis have conducted a research programme to help explore the issues relating to free content discoverability from the perspective of librarians. It’s aim was to understand what role librarians see free content having within their institutions; its relative importance compared…