A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of therequirements of the University of Wolverhamptonfor the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Investigates whether a correlation exists between a UK university's academic excellence, as judged by its Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) ratings, and the amount spent on its library. Considers both macro and micro levels, looking at institutions as a whole, and on a departmental level within...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness of the potential of open bibliometrics, especially for the discovery of previously undiscovered public knowledge. Design/methodology/approach: The viewpoint considers the limitations of the most popular current bibliometric tools and the...

The growth in the importance of co-operation between universities, industry and government to contemporary research has created a need to understand how cross-sector research collaborations occur in practice. Hence quantitative methods are needed to identify and assess the strength of...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate general patterns of tag usage and determines the usefulness of the tags used within university image groups to the wider Flickr community. There has been a significant rise in the use of Web 2.0 social network web sites and online...