EIUI Releases a Report of an Initial Study of the Awareness and Use of The 2009 State of Nova Scotia’s Coast Report

The EIUI research initiative has concluded a study in collaboration with the Government of Nova Scotia that assessed the initial use and influence of the State of Nova Scotia’s Coast Report, released in December 2009. Using a combination of interviews and questionnaires, web analytics, media scans and citation analysis, the study examined the effectiveness of the […]

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Coastal Zone Canada 2010 – Healthy Oceans – Strong Coastal Communities, Charlottetown, 25-29 July 2010

The EIUI research team was represented at the Coastal Zone Canada 2010 conference in Charlottetown by Dr. Bertrum MacDonald who participated in the workshop “Information Management for Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management” on Tuesday, 27 July. In addition, the research team presented the poster “From Science to Policy Making: Investigating the Use and Influence of Marine Environmental […]

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Workshop on CRIS, CERIF and Institutional Repositories, National Research Council Rome, 10-11 May 2010

At the European workshop on “Maximizing the Benefit of Research Information for Researchers, Research Managers, Entrepreneurs and the Public,” Bertrum MacDonald gave the presentation (co-authored with Peter Wells), “Intergovernmental Organizations and the Challenge of Document Description and Repositories.” This invitation-only workshop was organized by euroCRIS, a professional association on Current Research Information Systems, and custodian […]

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