This week, our friends at the Jisc and Research Libraries UK (RLUK) released their 2015 faculty study conducted by Ithaka S+R on the ways that academics value and use libraries and their services.
Announcement at:
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/increasing-numbers-of-uk-academics-now-utilise-university-online-capabilities-15-jun-2016direct link to full report:
https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6437/1/ithaka-survey-of-academics-2015.pdf
We will have a presentation on this work at the July JISC/CNI meeting that is being held in Oxford. See:
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/jisc-and-cni-conference-2016-06-jul-2016This forms an important complement to the similar work that Ithaka S+R has been doing in the US, where the most recent survey results were released at the Spring 2016 CNI meeting. See:
CNI Spring 2016 Membership Meeting: Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey 2015: First Release of Key Findings
Roger C. Schonfeld, Ithaka S+R Christine Wolff, Ithaka S+R
Clifford Lynch Director, CNI
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