Registry of Research Data Repositories lauched

“The goal of re3data.org is to create a global registry of research data repositories. The registry will cover research data repositories from different academic disciplines. re3data.org will present repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets...

9 Useful Educational Tools

Ned Potter is an Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of York and has created this great Prezi to suggest 9 educational tools to be used in research or teaching by academic (including Prezi itself).Read the full article from the LSE blog

Google updates its Transparency Report

The latest update reveals more government removal requests than ever before.From the official blog post:”…for the seventh time, we’re releasing new numbers showing requests from governments to remove content from our services. From July to...

The National Digital Public Library is now live

Launched on April 18, 2013 the Digital Public Library of America aims to “make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of...

Faculty Survey on Research & Teaching Practices

The Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey focused on research and teaching practices broadly, as well as the dissemination, collecting, discovery, and access, of research and teaching materials.Download PDF ReportMajor topics covered by the survey include:Research...