(26 February 2018) Nearly 90 percent of Australia’s library users think online library services are important, but only 61 percent are satisfied with the online experience they are receiving from libraries. That compares with 85 percent of the users who are happy with the physical experience of a library. The finding comes in a new…
(5 December 2017) The proportion of UK research which is available via open access is increasing at a considerable rate, with 37% of research outputs freely available to the world immediately at publication. This report, the second in a series commissioned by the Universities UK Open Access Coordination Group, aims to build on previous findings, and to…
(27 April 2017) Readers in the United Kingdom are suffering from screen fatigue and are abandoning eBooks and embracing print says Michael Kozlowski. Sales of consumer eBooks plunged 17% to £204m last year, the lowest level since 2011. This has resulted in a number of companies to go out of business such as Blinkbox Books and…
(3 February 2017) As part of delivering on the vision of a UK national digital library, Jisc and OCLC announce a partnership to build a new shared service that will aggregate academic bibliographic data at scale, improving library collection management and resource discovery for students and researchers. Today Jisc announced that OCLC, the global library…
Regulations coming into force on 6 April will enable six major libraries to collect, preserve and provide long term access to the increasing proportion of the UK’s cultural and intellectual output that appears in digital form – including blogs, e-books and the entire UK web domain. (4 April 2013) From this point forward, the British…
A programme to create the world’s biggest online portal of English folk music, song and dance manuscripts has been given the go ahead. The English Folk Dance and Song Society(EFDSS) has secured a grant of GBP585,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to archive, conserve and digitise materials from six archives containing some of the…
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