Are social media impacting on research?
First findings from the 2010 Charleston Observatory 11 November 2010 Social media, like Twitter and Facebook, have made a huge impact on many peoples personal lives, but we know little about whether researchers are using them and, if so, for what purposes and how do they fit into the research life cycle? CIBER is in the process of analysing more than 4,000 responses to a global questionnaire as our contribution to the 2010 Charleston Observatory. The survey was sponsored and designed in association with Emerald Publishing, with additional help-in-kind from Cambridge University Press, Taylor & Francis, Wolters Kluwer, UCL and the Charleston Library Conference. We plan to publish a substantial report on this site on 17 December. In the meantime, we are making the conference slides avaulable and would welcome any feedback from librarians, publishers and researchers. Click on the image below to download the conference slides or here for the report. Take an active role in the British Librar
