Professor David Nicholas

Biography:  David is Director of the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies (SLAIS) at University College London.  He is also the Director of the UCL Centre for Publishing and Director of the CIBER research group. Previously Head of Department, Department of Information Science, City University. Research interests largely concern mapping behaviour in virtual spaces, the virtual scholar, and the health information consumer. Currently engaged in investigations of: the use and impact of e-journals (for the Research Information network), open access publishing (OUP), e-books (for JISC) and scholarly researcher behaviour (T&F).