The key findings of this study are: • Journal articles and conference papers are critical for advanced research and scholarship, and are rated as`important’ by 90.4 per cent of survey respondents (for journal articles) and 58.2 per cent (for conference papers). • Compared with other types of information resources, journal articles are relatively easy to...

This report explores the value and relevance of libraries, and their importance in assisting researchers. This jointly commissioned report presents the findings of a systematic study of the value of the services that libraries provide to researchers, and of the contributions that libraries from a wide range of institutions make to institutional research performance.

This new guide provides researchers with an understanding of how peer review works and highlights some of the issues surround the current debates about the peer review process. The growth in the size of the research community and of the volumes of research being undertaken in the UK and across the world means that the...

Researchers now expect to have online access to library ca?talogues. But many of the resources held in libraries are not catalogued at all, or are not covered by online catalogues. Such resources are increasingly likely to be overlooked by researchers, whatever their potential value for research. This report assesses the progress that has been made...