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This collaborative research project will be composed of two separate, but linked, analyses. It will identify and examine information-related support services throughout the lifecycle of the research process. The project's goal is to discover researchers' needs and desires in a small sample of UK and US universities and to identify the significant patterns, intersections, gaps and issues from researchers' points of view, whatever the source of such services. This study will document the nature and scope of research support services, providing examples of good practice, recommending areas where new practice might emerge, and identifying possible areas and scope for collaboration within and between institutions

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According to the 2012 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors Annual Review, if you were born between 1979 and 1989, you spent more money on books in 2011 than older Americans.

See the free executive summary. Digital technologies raise all kinds of issues regarding the validity of research data, standards, restrictions, and preservation. This book seeks to be an essential guide to the principles affecting research data in th

What are new pedagogic approaches for learning with mobile platforms? What are the limitations of the "digital literacies" paradigm and its first world/third world assumptions?

on the dangers or filters that web companies are applying when they think THEY know what you want to know