After what feels like forever I think we’re finally getting there with the new website for the University Science and Technology Librarians Group (USTLG). The redesign of the website was something I volunteered for almost a year ago now but unfortunately I was unable to attend the meeting we launched the site at, and therefore [...]

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 [...]

Where do you start with your ‘reflective writing’ on one of the most interesting meetings you’ve been to in a very long time when you’re still reeling from the god awful news that your ‘hopes of a better future’ lie in the hands of David Cameron? Well, I think the best thing to do is [...]