[GOAL] Re: Why "Public Access" vs. "Research Access" Matters

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Derek Law <d.law at strath.ac.uk> wrote:

> I think Peter raises a very valid point which has obsessed me for ages.
> Because we all occupy multiple spaces,
> not just one. When I publish LIS research I'm a researcher; when I write
> on my hobby - naval history - I'm an
> amateur historian; when I work on Zooniverse projects I'm a citizen
> scientist. And yet the tools and techniques
> I use are the same for each. Users CANNOT be pigeonholed simplistically,
> as they have complex interactions
> with research.
>
> Thanks Derek,

For those who are interested Mike Taylor and the open-access group of the
Open Knowledge Foundation have created a site
http://whoneedsaccess.org/which surveys and presents the needs of
those outside  academia - the
#scholarlypoor. Mike's day job is computers, but he does peer-reviewed
research on sauropods (dinosaurs). He is collecting typical examples of
those outside academia who require access and are denied it by the system -
and it's not just health.




-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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