Just because I love ‘year in pictures’ round-ups.

The Gulf Spill?

Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake?

Eyjafjallajokull?

Why is it that the last week of work before Christmas always feels like you’re just killing time waiting for Amazon to ship your presents!? If they don’t get a move on Christmas will be ruined. I’m making a pact that next year I’m going to some of those real-life shops again. Online shopping is [...]

Research metrics and citations count
Although the next two sessions were really interesting (well they were actually split around Yvonne Nobis’ session on Finding the known unknowns [...] due to timetable rearrangements but it seems logically to keep to the original order), they were heavy going. Bibliometrics aren’t necessarily complicated but it’s difficult to really get a grasp [...]

Last week I attended the latest University Science and Technology Librarians Group (USTLG) meet up in Oxford. If I’m honest it wasn’t so much the programme that attracted me this time but rather the location! I’ve never been to Oxford and don’t see myself making any plans to in the near future and so I [...]