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Editorial
Heather Dawson

Special issue: Innovations in social sciences information and research support


The Changing Environment


Social Policy in a Time of Coalition: whither welfare in the second decade of the 21st century?
Jude England, Head of Social Sciences, The British Library


Researchers' behaviours and the implications for Scholarly Communications
Dr. Branwen Hide, Research Information Network
Research into Reality: Knowledge exchange with the third sector
Razia Shariff, Head, Knowledge Exchange Team, Third Sector Research Centre

Online archives and repositories

Elections and  the Internet: a collaborative  web site archiving  Project
Jennie Grimshaw, Curator Official Publications and Social Policy, British Library

Economists Online
Kieron Jones Subject Librarian: Economics, Political Science & History, UCL Library Services

Building online communities
The Mass Observation Communities Online (MOCO) project
Jenna Bailey, Johanna Samuelson, Sophie Williams-Brown, Mass Observation Communities Online (MOCO) project

The Community Café project: sharing tea, cake and online teaching resources
Kate Borthwick
Project manager, Community Cafe project, Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, University of Southampton


Educating and Engaging with students 

Exterminating Boredom: synergy and creativity in an academic library
Emily C. White, Library Assistant, University of Portsmouth
Timothy Collinson, Faculty Librarian, University of Portsmouth

The use of voting clickers at the University of East London Library
Robin Stinson, Subject Librarian for Social Sciences
Simone Ngozi Okolo, Academic Services and Skills Manager

Toolkits for Training
Kathryn Summerwill, Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham


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