UCL Centre for Publishing
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UCL Centre for Publishing offers scholars and publishers vibrant ideas, insights and evidence to ensure success in a digital networked world. Research driven and with a commitment to knowledge transfer, it informs the publishing industry and the broader world of information management and communication—authors, readers and librarians.
A policy-led, research-driven centre for research, scholarship and teaching of all forms of publishing, in all media, and for all audiences.
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![[D Nicholas]](http://www.infostudies.ucl.ac.uk/photo/b_DN-20090928.jpeg "Professor Nicholas")
![[UCL MA Publishing October 2009]](http://www.infostudies.ucl.ac.uk/photo/w64_wis101.jpeg "30 Russell Sq. 101")
![[UCL portico left]](http://www.infostudies.ucl.ac.uk/photo/a_portico090928-d.jpeg "UCL Information Studies Staff and Students September 2009")
The UCL Centre for Publishing aspires to lead the world in research, scholarship and teaching of publishing in all media and for all audiences. Research driven and with a commitment to knowledge transfer, it informs the publishing industry and the broader world of information management and communication—authors, readers and librarians. It offers scholars and publishers vibrant ideas, insights and evidence to ensure success in a digital networked world.
2009-11-19 14:51
The key findings and observations from the JISC national e-books observatory project will be presented on 19th November at the JISC Collections Annual Conference. The e-books observatory project was set up to help publishers, libraries and funding bodies understand e-book users and the market effect on traditional print sales to students.
2009-11-20 18:13
![[the groups taking part in the experiments 14 November 2009, outside UCL, London]](http://www.infostudies.ucl.ac.uk/photo/digrevexpgroup1.jpeg "http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/images/digrevexpgroup1_large.shtml")
The BBC's Digital Revolution cameras returned to UCL on 14th November. Over 70 webusers, aged from 12 to 74 took part in an experiment designed by CIBER and Dan Gluckman of the BBC to reveal the influence of internet access on information seeking behaviour. Recorded in the UCL Science Library and directed by Molly Milton, a graduate of UCL, the programme which will be broadcast in the new year.
David Nicholas has contributed a blog post to the project's website: we skitter or bounce along the surface of the Web rarely penetrating very far or dwelling very long, but we do not know why —this is what the BBC experiment will tell us.
![[Book jacket]](http://www.infostudies.ucl.ac.uk/images/Assessing_Information_Needs_3e-Routledge_2009.jpeg "Nicholas & Herman. Assessing Information Needs, 3e. Routledge 2009")
2009-11-16 14:40
The third edition of Assessing Information Needs in the Age of the Digital Consumer by David Nicholas and Eti Herman will be published by Routledge in December.
Aiming at ensuring that everyone obtains the rich rewards available in today's information-centred society, this book seeks to provide a systematic method for the understanding, appreciation and evaluation of information needs, which alone can guarantee the value of information to the consumer.
2009-10-02 19:55
Iain Stevenson has been invited to the Ljubljana Book Fair, Slovenia in November. Professor Stevenson will present two keynotes at the event, one on Environmental Issues in Publishing and the other on the role of Robert Maxwell in the history of publishing in the twentieth century. The latter paper features new and surprising research that Professor Stevenson includes in his forthcoming book Book Makers. British Publishing in the twentieth century.
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