3.5 billion people are using social media; half the world population watches online video; emoji usage continues to grow.
Posted 18 July 2019
The long school holidays are around the corner.
Posted 4 July 2019
Expected changes to the demographics of the student body has implications for HE libraries.
Posted 8 June 2019
Goldsmiths College hosted a full day of discussions on what makes OA in the humanities ‘different'.
Posted 26 May 2019
The European University Association has released its 2019 Big Deals Survey Report.
Posted 21 May 2019
White paper suggests ways to improve usage data that will benefit all stakeholders including authors, publishers, funders, vendors, libraries, and readers.
Posted 9 May 2019
Libraries matter for Europe and Europe matters for libraries. IFLA and its partners have developed a library manifesto for Europe. Here are the highlights.
Posted 26 April 2019
In this Association of Research Libraries white paper expert Wikidata users recommend ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of their collections, faculty, and institutions.
Posted 23 April 2019
New Springer nature white paper draws on several reports to recommend practical ways to accelerate data sharing.
Posted 2 April 2019
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has released a statement describing the ways in which librarians help advance global scholarship.
Posted 20 March 2019
OCLC identifies the 100 novels most widely held in public libraries around the world.
Posted 7 March 2019
Information Governance needs to be owned at the top and cascaded down effectively.
Posted 19 February 2019
International real estate agent Savills has published its latest Tech Cities index report.
Posted 6 February 2019
Ten innovations that have the potential to provoke real change in pedagogy are explored in new report.
Posted 10 January 2019
New report shows complexity of research information management activities and the need for interoperability.
Posted 11 December 2018
The Altmetric Top 100 typically features research from a variety of disciplines, written by authors from all corners of the globe.
Posted 11 December 2018
Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics) is an annual list of influential researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world.
Posted 29 November 2018
Digital Experience Insights Survey gives a student-centric view of HE and FE digital environments.
Posted 16 November 2018
Academic publishing plays an integral role in the research and innovation ecosystem, according to new research.
Posted 13 November 2018
Newspapers are an important part of the academic publishing landscape - and their use is growing.
Posted 12 November 2018
Latest Figshare report explores global attitudes towards open data.
Posted 2 November 2018
A new report produced by think tank Demos in partnership with the Reading Agency highlights societal benefits of reading.
Posted 2 November 2018
How we can make the most of collective human intelligence and machine intelligence to solve complex social challenges?
Posted 18 October 2018
The Library of Congress has published its new strategic plan for the years 2019 - 2023.
Posted 3 October 2018
A new Sandvine report looks at internet traffic and ranks applications on their traffic share.
Posted 3 October 2018
The Wikimedia and Libraries User Group celebrates and connects Wikimedians and librarians around the world.
Posted 19 September 2018
11 national research funding organisations have launched an initiative called cOAlition S.
Posted 5 September 2018
An analysis of trends in the Scopus database of scholarly research explores China's improving performance in research impact.
Posted 20 July 2018
UK publishing houses have had their best year overall; but textbooks have taken a massive hit.
Posted 19 July 2018
OPF sets out long-term plans for the organisation.
Posted 5 July 2018
An analysis of Springer Nature hybrid journal content shows how OA drives impact and usage.
Posted 4 July 2018
Reading rates continue to fall; Netflix and other binge content providers are the competition.
Posted 25 June 2018
Facebook loses ground, YouTube leads the way.
Posted 1 June 2018
How to be a top 100 brand - lessons from three new entries to the elite club of brands.
Posted 30 May 2018
UK the most breached country in Europe, yet UK IT security spend lags behind.
Posted 29 May 2018
Collaboration wants to create a coherent map of the open ecosystem.
Posted 17 May 2018
Eight US university libraries are collaborating with the help of a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Posted 17 May 2018
2018 is the 25th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day.
Posted 3 May 2018
The majority of Americans are resistant to government action on misinformation but are more open to action by tech companies.
Posted 20 April 2018
Research shows the pervasive role that automated accounts play in disseminating links to a wide range of prominent websites on Twitter.
Posted 20 April 2018
New research from shows more newspapers are re-discovering the power of digital-only editions as their unique value proposition.
Posted 19 April 2018
Geographic proximity to the home is important to encourage attendance at leisure centres, but with libraries the picture is more complex.
Posted 18 April 2018
Schools, teachers, communities and families play a critical role in successfully integrating technology into teaching, learning and assessment.
Posted 6 April 2018
A new report (The Cost of Cloud Expertise) surveyed 950 IT decision makers and 950 IT pros from across the globe.
Posted 5 April 2018
Just 13% of respondents question the necessity of libraries at all in the Internet age.
Posted 23 March 2018
comScore has published its 2018 international digital overview 'Global Digital Future in Focus'.
Posted 23 March 2018
New Springer Nature report explores attitudes to data sharing.
Posted 23 March 2018
A new report from Wellcome explores how the UK and EU can work together to ensure strong research collaboration post-Brexit.
Posted 8 March 2018
It's time to look back on the impact of five years of OA and to look to the future.
Posted 8 March 2018
The results of a poll show librarians are in the top five of the UK's most trusted professionals.
Posted 25 February 2018