{"id":4427,"date":"2009-12-09T01:28:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T01:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=4427"},"modified":"2009-12-09T01:28:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T01:28:29","slug":"overcoming-barriers-access-to-research-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/overcoming-barriers-access-to-research-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming barriers: access to research information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new December 2009 reports from the UK&#8217;s prolific RIN, part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rin.ac.uk\/our-work\/using-and-accessing-information-resources\/overcoming-barriers-access-research-information\">a cluster of five such reports<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1) <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rin.ac.uk\/system\/files\/attachments\/Sarah\/Overcoming-barriers-report-Dec09.pdf\">Overcoming barriers: access to research information<\/a><\/em> (PDF link)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This report finds that many researchers are encountering difficulties in getting access to the content they need and that this is having a significant impact on their research.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;technical limitations such as log in\/authentication problems (26%) or problems with proxy servers and off-site access (a particular problem for researchers [<em>seeking to access ejournals<\/em>] \u2013 a <strong>majority in the humanities<\/strong> and social sciences \u2013 who spend significant amounts of time away from their home institution)&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The proportions of those who felt the impact [<em>of unavailable ejournal content<\/em>] as having a &#8216;significant&#8217; impact on their research were <strong>higher in the arts and humanities<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2) <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rin.ac.uk\/system\/files\/attachments\/Sarah\/ALC-Researchers-access-licensed-content-Outsell.doc\">How researchers secure access to licensed content not immediately available to them<\/a><\/em> (DOC link, Word)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;emailing the author directly [&#8230;] creative searching online, primarily using Google Books and Google Scholar [&#8230;] accessing cached content; and signing up for free trials with publishers [&#8230;]  buying books online, usually second-hand, when they are unable to get access via other routes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ Hat-tip: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlham.edu\/~peters\/fos\/fosblog.html\">Open Access News<\/a><\/em> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new December 2009 reports from the UK&#8217;s prolific RIN, part of a cluster of five such reports&#8230; 1) Overcoming &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/overcoming-barriers-access-to-research-information\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-improve-academic-search","category-official-and-think-tank-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}