Current Research Information Systems

I made an enquiry to the UKCoRR mailing list asking whether anyway was using a CRIS in the UK. The replies were interesting, with a lot of interest in Symplectic. Only one reply from the list used InfoEd. The other options I asked about included PURE from Denmark, and the ProQuest Research [...]

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Publish or perish

This is a desktop tool Brian Kelly has pointed me to – I’ve yet to have a good look at it, so I’m leaving it here to trip over later.
http://www.harzing.com/resources.htm#/pop.htm

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DSpace installed against Oracle 10?

Apparently this isn’t as straightforward as the DSpace documentation might suggest, and further problems may arise when installing patches/plugins etc as most are designed with a PostgreSQL database in mind. This is a problem as it negates one of the main reasons for choosing DSpace, that of being able to use and feed back [...]

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Blogging

Over at the social networking site Ning there’s a Library 2.0 community. Brian Kelly from UKOLN has established a little group within this to gather thoughts and ideas for a Blogging Masterclass that we’re presenting at the Internet Librarian International conference in London, 7 October 2007. Brian has a phancy new phone with [...]

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Using a wiki to record progress

What did we do before we had wikis? I really don’t know – had multiple versions of the same document floating around in people’s email I suppose, or saved it on shared drives that required emails back and forward to IT services for access to save in. Or internal intranets with designated staff [...]

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Social bookmarking tools and repositories

Are there any institutional repositories out there that incorporate social bookmarking tools?
A strong advocacy claim for depositing material in a repository is that this increases access to the material and subsequently increases citation rates. If we’re to look at web citations, wouldn’t adding options to post to del.icio.us, Connotea, CiteULike, etc. on [...]

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Choosing repository software

WHAT DO WE WANT? *Immediate decisive action*
WHEN DO WE WANT IT? *Sometime quite soon I should think…*
It’s always the things you think are going to be straightforward that end up being riddled with detail and complexity. Choosing a software platform for the repository was a case in point.
It’s kind [...]

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