Dr Ian Rowlands

Biography: Ian is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at the UCL Centre for Publishing. His main research and teaching interests are in scholarly communication, journal publishing, bibliometrics and research methods. Before joining academia in 1993, Ian worked for Pira International, a contract research organisation specialising in the printing and electronic publishing sectors and as a consultant to the European Commission on online publishing. As a founder member and Director of CIBER, Ian has been extremely active in research into the information behaviour of the virtual scholar. Recent and current projects include a study of the implications of the `Google Generation' for research libraries (funded by the British Library and JISC), a study of the implications of the digital transition for future curators as our personal information collections become increasingly digital (`Digital Lives; funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council), and work for the Research Information Network on the value of electronic journal collections.