The 35th Annual General Meeting of UKeiG, the UK eInformation Group, will be held at 13.45 onThursday 20th June 2013 in the Eddington Room, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland...
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Welcome to UKeiG. UKeiG is a respected and well-established forum for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. We promote and advance the effective exploitation and management of electronic information and offer a wide range of resources including seminars and workshops. Access is also available to our e-journal eLucidate, publications and our popular series of Factsheets.
News and announcements
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UKeiG invites nominations for the 2013 UKeiG Jason Farradane Award, which is made to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the information profession. The Award embraces activities in the information...
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Digital marketing toolkit: Ned Potter - on Tuesday, 21 May, 2013, 09:30 -16:30 at The Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue, 16 St. MarysStreet, Edinburgh EH1 1SU
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Recently, we have been asked about courses in an area of growing importance: Open Access. Now, we are pleased to announce that Open Access has been added to our diary of courses with an initial workshop in London in June. This one-day workshop...
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The UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award is given in recognition of an outstanding practical innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval. This could take the form of an application or service, or an overall appreciation of past...
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In the spring 2013 issue of eLucidate, Lucy Montgomery describes an interesting new initiative to encourage publication of open-access monographs in the humanities; Martin White lists twelve success factors for implementing enterprise...
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UKeiG developed one of the sessions for the ISKO UK Conference and our members can benefit from a discounted registration. UKeiG has partnered ISKO UK to put together a practice-oriented session of case studies looking at how KO and KM can work...
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With the flurry of conference announcements appearing in mail boxes, it seems the right time to remind students (and lecturers who can pass the news on!) in UK schools or departments of librarianship, information studies, information science,...
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When it was run in 2012 our course on copyright - The future of copyright in the digital age and what it means to you - received much praise from those who attended. They said it was a "really excellent practical course" with...
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UKeiG is pleased to announce its 2013 training programme with an initial 17 events - 14 different courses in 7 venues over the 12 months. Currently, five of these are new courses. We expect to be adding at least one further new course. The new...
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From eLucidate,
March 2013
These days the average monograph retails for around £50. Some sell for as much as £200 ... As a result, at a moment when digital technology is, in theory, making it possible for many more people to access content at no extra cost, fewer people than ever before are able to read the books written by university-based researchers.
Lucy Montgomery
The Knowledge Unlatched initiative
Enterprise Search: Twelve Success Factors
Posting you a note
Aaron Swartz - Impact Assessment - Open Access
Trusting the cloud - CRM tools
Report by Margaret Katny
Reviewed by Margaret Katny
Reviewed by Matt Treadwell
Books that may be of interest to information professionals
