Today sees the release of The Higher Education Commission’s report entitled: From Bricks to Clicks – The Potential of Data and Analytics in Higher Education As the authors describe it, the report: undertakes a review of the current data landscape across English higher education institutions, looking at data collections, learning analytics and the current barriers…
Category: Analytics
The Evolution of Scholarly and Information Metrics
In my previous role as Head of Scholarly and Library Futures at Jisc, I agreed to contribute a chapter to a new book by Andy Tattersall on Altmetrics (Altmetrics: A practical guide for librarians, researchers and academics) from Facet Publishing. Now that the book is published, I thought it worthwhile posting my piece, in full, on…
Would I write a book again…?
One of the reasons I thought I’d start a blog again is that I have recently finished writing/editing a book. Library Analytics and Metrics: Using data to drive decisions and services was published in April 2015 by Facet and is the first book I have been involved in editing entirely myself. After having spent over…
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