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Evaluating the impact of SHEDL

The RIN in collaboration with the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL) has assessed the impact of the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL) initiative which...

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Research support services: What services do researchers need and use?

The RIN and OCLC Research have undertaken a comparative study to investigate information-related support services for researchers in the UK and the US.This collaborative research project was composed...

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What research support services do researchers need?

The RIN and OCLC Research have completed a comparative study to investigate information-related support services for researchers in the UK and the US.read more

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Transitions in scholarly communications - a portfolio of research projects

A new portfolio of research projects will be focusing on transitions to electronic-only publication, gaps in access, the dynammics of improving access to research papers and the future of scholarly...

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E-only scholarly journals: overcoming the barriers

As part of our transitions in scholarly communications portfolio of projects, this first report investigates the barriers to moving to e-only publishing of scholarly journals, and ways in which those...

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Reinventing research? Information practices in the humanities

The RIN has completed a second series of case studies to provide a detailed analysis of how humanities’ researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources.This project focuses on...

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Expanding access to published research findings

A new independent working group has been set up to examine how UK-funded research findings can be made more accessible.   The group will propose a programme of action and make recommendations to...

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Information handling in collaborative research: an exploration of five case...

This study, commissioned by RIN and the British Library, comprising of a set of case studies looking at how researchers access, use and disseminate information in collaborations between higher...

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Physical Sciences Case studies: information use and discovery

The RIN, the Institute of Physics (IOP), Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) have recently published a set of case studies which provide a detailed analysis...

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Access to scholarly content: gaps and barriers

This report investigates and quantifies the extent to which members of different communities in the UK can gain ready access to formally-published scholarly literature, in particular journal articles...

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