CIBER downloads

In addition to the grey literature listed here, many other CIBER reports and articles can be found elsewhere on this website (click here) or in Google Scholar (click here).

British Library and JISC

Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future ('Google Generation' project)

Executive Summary [pdf]

Work Package I: Trends in Scholarly Information Behaviour [pdf]

Work Package II: The Literature on Young People and their Information Behaviour [pdf]

Work Package III: Age-Related Information Behaviour [pdf]

Work Package IV: Student Information-Seeking Behaviour in Context [pdf]

Work Package V: Technology Trends [pdf]

A User Evaluation of BL Learning [pdf]

A User Evaluation of Intute [pdf]

CILIP

Exploring the low representation of Black and Minority Ethnic staff in the library and information science profession: a case study of London (April 2009). [pdf]

Department of Health

Digital Consumer Health Information and Advisory Services in the UK: A User Evaluation and Source Book (2004)
[pdf] [zipped pdf]

First Steps Towards Providing the Nation with Health Care Information via their Television Sets (2002)
Summary Report [pdf] [zipped pdf] Full Report [pdf] [zipped pdf]
 
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund

Web Factsheet 1: Questions Charities Need to Ask About Their Web Sites (2003)
[pdf] [zipped pdf]

Web Factsheet 2: How to Evaluate your Website and Ensure It Remains User Focused (2003)
[pdf] [zipped pdf]

Web Factsheet 3: Funding Web Sites: What Are The Major Considerations for Trusts and Foundations? (2003)
[pdf] [zipped pdf]

Web Guidelines Glossary (2003)
[pdf] [zipped pdf]

An Evaluation of the Websites of Charities and Voluntary Organsiations Providing Support for Young People (2003)
[pdf] [zipped pdf]

Elsevier Science

Authors as Users: A Deep Log Analysis Linking Demographic and Attitudinal Data Obtained from Scholarly Authors with their Usage of Science Direct (August 2006).
Project report [pdf]

JISC Collections

Headline findings: UK national user benchmarking survey (April 2008) [pdf]

Dispelling myths about e-books with empirical evidence (April 2009) [pdf]

NHS Learn

Health Education Online: An Evaluation of the Development and Roll-Out of NHS Learn, A Pilot DiTV and Satellite-to-PC Distance Education Programme for NHS Staff (2004)
Executive summary [pdf] [zipped pdf] Full report [pdf] [zipped pdf]

OhioLINK

OhioLINK Deep Log Study II: Case Study of Four Universities (February 2007). Project report [pdf]

Oxford University Press

Determining the Impact of Open Access Publishing on Use and Users: A Deep Log Analysis of Nucleic Acids Research(2006)
Project report (CIBER findings from p.50 onwards) [pdf] [zipped pdf]

Publishers Association

Scholarly Communication in the Digital Environment: What Do Authors Want? Findings of an International Survey of Author Opinion (2004)
[pdf] [zipped pdf]

Publishers Association and the International STM Association

New Journal Publishing Models: An International Survey of Senior Researchers (2005)
[pdf] [zipped pdf]

Publishing Research Consortium

Journals and Scientific Productivity: A Case Study in Immunology and Microbiology (2006)
Summary report [pdf] [zipped pdf] Full report [pdf] [zipped pdf]

Research Information Network

E-journals: their use, value and impact [pdf]

UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities

The Role and Future of the Monograph in Arts & Humanities Research (2008) [pdf]

Wellcome Trust

Mapping the Landscape II: Biomedical Research in the UK, 1989-2002 (2003)
Chapter 1: Introduction [pdf] [zipped pdf]
Chapter 2: Scope of global biomedicine [pdf] [zipped pdf]
Chapter 3: UK national outputs [pdf] [zipped pdf]
Chapter 4: The funding of UK biomedical research [pdf] [zipped pdf]
Chapter 5: Measuring impacts [pdf] [zipped pdf]
Chapter 6: New directions in the analysis of biomedical outputs [pdf] [zipped pdf]
Methodological annex [pdf] [zipped pdf]
Appendix chapter 2 [pdf] [zipped pdf]
Appendix chapters 3-5 [pdf] [zipped pdf]
Supporting tables and data [zipped pdf and Excel files]

CIBER conference papers and presentations

Dave Nicholas. The digital transition and all that, Inaugural address to the Pratt-SILS Summer School on e-Publishing, 16 June 2008.
Presentation slides [Powerpoint]

David Nicholas, The Virtual Scholar: Inaugural Professorial Lecture at University College London, 6 March 2008.
Presentation slides [pdf]

David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands, Towards evidence-based open access publishing, Presentation to the House of Commons Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, 17 July 2006.
Presentation slides [zipped pdf]

Ian Rowlands, What Kind of Evidence Do We Need?, Learned Societies and Access to Research Outputs: An RCUK Workshop, British Library, 29 June 2006
Presentation slides [zipped pdf]

Ian Rowlands, The 2005 CIBER Survey: An International Study of Senior Researchers, Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, International STM Conference, Frankfurt, 18 October 2005.
Presentation slides [zipped pdf]

Ian Rowlands, Scholarly Communication in the Digital Environment: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 228th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, 23 August 2004.
Presentation slides [zipped pdf]

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