<Apologies for cross posting> Hello all,
You may be interested in the latest blog from Unlocking Research: "Consider yourself disrupted - notes from RLUK2016" - https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=601 <https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=601> A teaser: The 2016 Research Libraries UK <http://rlukconference.com/> conference was held at the British Library from 9-11 March on the theme of disruptive innovation. This blog pulls out some of the highlights personally gained from the conference: If librarians are to be considered important – we as a community need to be strong in our grasp of understanding scholarly communication issues We need to know the facts about our subscriptions to, usage of and contributions to scholarly publishing We need high level support in institutions to back libraries in advocacy and negotiation with publishers Scientists are rarely rewarded for being right, so the scientific record is being distorted by the scientific ecosystem Society needs more open research to ensure reproducibility and robust research The library of the future will have to be exponentially more customisable than the current offering The information seeking behaviour of researchers is iterative and messy and does not match library search services Libraries need to ‘create change to triumph’ - to be inventors rather than imitators Management of open access issues need to be shared across institutions with positive outcomes when research offices and libraries collaborate. I have blogged separately about my own contribution ‘The value of embracing unknown unknowns’ <https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=594> - https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=594 <https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=594> Regards, Danny Dr Danny Kingsley Head of Scholarly Communications Cambridge University Library West Road, Cambridge CB39DR P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437 M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564 E: [email protected] T: @dannykay68 ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939
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