Images of Historic Hampshire – thanks to the British Library

Stony Cross New Forest

I’ve just discovered* that the British Library has uploaded over a million images to Flickr Commons. Yes, that’s right – more than a million – completely free to use as there’s no known copyright. The British Library plans to launch a crowd-sourcing app in 2014, which will enable members of the public to help describe what the…… Continue reading Images of Historic Hampshire – thanks to the British Library

Researchers of Tomorrow: the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students

Researchers of Tomorrow is the UK’s largest study to date on the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students (born between 1982 and 1994). JISC and the British Library jointly commissioned the three year study in 2009, which involved 17,000 doctoral students from 70 universities at various stages in the project. Contents include: Executive summary Acknowledgements…… Continue reading Researchers of Tomorrow: the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students