Over the past 20 years, many libraries have devoted significant resources to digitizing their special collections. Relatively few resources have been devoted to designing effective and easy-to-use online delivery platforms for these collections. Through an online questionnaire and a series of semi-structured interviews with University of Oxford…[Read more]

The Natural History Museum is one of the world’s leading research institutions for biological
diversity research with collections comprising some 8 million specimens representing a vast wealth of
data. It also holds one of the foremost collections of biodiversity-related literature in its Library and
Archives, with over one million items c…[Read more]

This PhD thesis, now largely of historical interest, describes a then-novel method of substructural analysis of chemical structure representations, with potential application in structure-property correlation and information retrieval within chemical information systems. Structural features are generated from Wiswesser Line Notation…[Read more]

This is a blog post containing the somewhat revised text of a chapter published in a Festschrift for Rafael Capurr, with comments from Capurro on our chapter.

This research investigates the relative effectiveness of different modes of regulation of access to personal data on social networking services in the UK. A review of the literature demonstrated that there was a gap in research comparing different regulatory modes applied to online social networking services (SNSs). A model of regulation was…[Read more]

This is a keynote presentation given at the 50th anniversary conference of the CILIP Library and Information History Group, CILIP HQ London, 6 November 2012.
It took a presidential theme, in acknowledgement of the US presidential election happening that day.
It was intended as a short introduction to the day, showing that the study of…[Read more]