Buzz - Bibliometrics

• The Value of Open Access Publishing to Health and Social Care Professionals in Ireland

  Aoife Lawton and Eimear Flynn discuss the value of open access publishing for allied health professions and their work in the health services with particular reference to Ireland.

• Book Review: The E-copyright Handbook

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the latest of Paul Pedley’s copyright guidance books, and, in some respects, finds it wanting.

• Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management

  Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan and Barbara Sen explore the design of a curriculum to train academic librarians in the competencies to support Research Data Management.

• euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Madrid

  Rosemary Russell and Brigitte Jörg report on the bi-annual euroCRIS membership and Task Groups meetings which took place in Madrid on 5-6 November 2012.

• Book Review: Introductory Concepts in Information Science

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at an introduction to Information Science but fails to be impressed.

• Book Review: Information Science in Transition

  Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958.

• Encouraging More Open Educational Resources With Southampton's EdShare

  Debra Morris describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar Project and the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching materials within and beyond the institution.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 36

  Michael Day takes a detailed look at the structure and content of this hardy annual.

• Spotlight on BIDS

  BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark, a BIDS trainer amongst other things, who gives us her thoughts on one of the UK's most well-known networking services. Linked from this article are responses from BIDS people.