http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org Navigating the information environment... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:28:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde is currently investigating the links between university library catalogues and digital repositories as part of a JISC funded study. Can library users find resources in their university's digital repository through the library catalogue? Do library catalogues and repositories share ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/07/02/do-library-catalogues-and-repositories-talk-to-each-other/ Research funded by the JISC, RIN and others over recent years has helped to increase understanding of how students and researchers use electronic information resources. Analysis of Web logs - such as the work done for the e-Books Observatory Study by CIBER at UCL - has proved a fruitful ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/07/02/how-do-people-use-electronic-information-resources/ An international workshop in Amsterdam in March, funded by JISC, SURF and DRIVER, discussed work needed to improve interoperability between repositories. Four areas of work were focused upon: - citation services - interoperable identification systems - repository handshaking (interoperable deposit systems), and - repository organisation (supporting repositories around the world) There's more information and an ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/06/26/sharing-citations/ We're working in partnership with SCONUL, RIN, RLUK and the British Library on an initiative: • to gather and analyse evidence about current and future trends that are likely to have an impact on the future of academic and research libraries in the UK; and • to formulate strategic responses to help libraries ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/06/26/the-future-of-the-academic-library-expressions-of-interest-by-8-july-09/ ***This is a guest post from Fiona Hewer on behalf of the JISC OJIMS project*** Scientific information about weather and climate change is being scrutinised more than ever to meet the need for advice to policy-makers on greenhouse gas emissions and their consequences.  The Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), a world-leading publisher, ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/06/19/a-new-climate-for-meteorological-publishing/ Apologies, firstly, to Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell over at UKOLN that I haven't done this post a bit earlier.  They are both currently working on a landscape study to understand how people use Web 2.0 tools and services as part of the shared infrastructure services (SIS) programme to both ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/06/18/participate-in-jisc-landscape-study/ We have been notifying and sending out grant letters to bidders to the JISC Rapid Innovation call, also known as  jiscri, this week and are now able to release some information about the call. We got 94 bids for the call and have ended up funding 33 projects at a cost of ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/06/05/jiscri-the-results/ I attended a workshop on June 2 on the use of Web Services to enable interoperability between repositories, repository services and other systems. The workshop was organised by the Ethos project (Electronic Theses Online). Most attendees were from a repository manager or developer background. [Update: the presentations (including audio ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/06/03/web-services-and-repositories/ This is rather a long post - but it is on a big subject! Last year saw the publication by the JISC and SCONUL of a major report on library management systems used in UK higher education. A lot has happened since. So, I thought it might be useful ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/05/08/the-library-management-system-a-round-up-of-some-fairly-recent-initiatives/ We have had an interesting technical challenge posed by Chris Rusbridge, Director of the DCC relating to marking JISC bids and wondered if any of you clever people out there could come up with a solution. For the jiscri call we received 94 bids each of these has to be marked ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2009/05/08/a-technical-challenge-for-a-friday-afternoon/