tag: Research4Life
Past Event
November 5, 2015
Overcoming the Challenges to Seamless Access to Licensed Content
Roger Schonfeld Speaks at the Charleston Conference
Roger Schonfeld is speaking on “Overcoming the Challenges to Seamless Access to Licensed Content” at the Charleston Conference on Thursday, November 5 at 11:35 am. He will be joined by Richard Gedye, Director of Outreach Programmes, STM. In a world where there is an increasing expectation that “one click will get you there”, this session examines just how difficult it can often be for a researcher to access journal content to which their own institution has a current institutional license, because…
Blog Post
April 17, 2015
The Vital Need to Link Discovery and Access
Over the past few weeks, there has been an interesting set of discussions about whether the Liberian part of the Ebola outbreak this winter was foretold and therefore could have been stopped earlier. Writing an op-ed in the New York Times, several researchers noted that they recently “stumbled across” an article indicating the reasonable likelihood that Liberia would be faced with cases of Ebola, which turned out to have been one of several studies predicting Liberia being in the…