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A colleague sent me the latest issue of Research Trends – a bi-monthly newsletter from Elsevier with short features on bibliometrics. Cynics might say it was a thinly veiled marketing ploy to help embed their Scopus database as a worthy … Continue reading →

I’m rather proud of my Science Blogging 2008 T-shirt. Brown isn’t my favourite colour, but the logo looks good and I wear it in the knowledge that it’s a pretty exclusive brand. So I spent a day last month parading … Continue reading →

I spent Christmas and New Year in the Philippines. It was lovely to be somewhere warm and lovely to enjoy being somewhere quite different, but also strangely familiar. Relics from their colonial history (first Spain and then USA) makes the … Continue reading →

As a service manager, my first impulse is always to give people what they want. My primary objective is to keep the customer happy (yes, I’m afraid even in Libraries these days we have started to call our users ­customers). … Continue reading →

I went to the JISC Collections Annual General Meeting today. They are the people who procure and negotiate licences for electronic content (electronic journals, search tools like Web of Science and Scopus, and e-books) for UK Higher Education, Research Councils … Continue reading →

I’m not sure whether presentations are more like curries or sponge cakes. A curry is usually better if you prepare it in advance and leave it to mature for a day or two. A sponge is nicest when it is … Continue reading →

Following Martin Fenner’s lead , and telling you a little more about this blog, this is my martinmeme. 1. What is your blog about? Usually it is about things that I encounter in the course of my work as a … Continue reading →

I recently attended a workshop on open scientific resources organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF). The OKF blog has some Notes from the meeting, but I present a few of my own reflections on the day here. The definition … Continue reading →

The British Library have published their strategy for the next three years. The document is admirably well-designed, clear and, at 16 pages, concise. It sets out the Library’s purpose and aims then summarises various “catalysts for change” and elaborating seven … Continue reading →