[GOAL] Open Access Week at Cambridge - Wednesday

[Danny Kingsley]

Hello all,

Half way through Open Access Week and we are powering along...

Discussion: 'How open access can help you'
Today Dr Danny Kingsley accepted an invitation from Dr Rupert Gatti, one of the Directors of the Open Book Publishers http://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/14/1/about <http://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/14/1/about> to attend a discussion hosted by Professor Steve Connor, the Head of English about open access and the future of academic publishing. Some very powerful statements were addressed including 'The world of academic publishing is over’ and 'The monograph as an entity is very powerful thing – for the author not for the reader’.  Issues around the readership of the legacy publishing model compared to those of open publishing models were explored in the context of the current reward system. These are profound questions for the Arts and Humanities in a time of drastic funding cuts. New ‘publishing’ models were discussed in light of the types of online and digital research now being conducted in the Humanities, and the challenges associated with maintaining the integrity of the links into the long term. This is likely to be the first of a series of discussions about this important topic.

Blog: Software Licensing and Open Access
The third in our Open Access Week series is written by Dr Marta Teperek and addresses some of the uncertainties surrounding making software open access. https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=345 <https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=345> <snip> If the questions that the Research Data Service Team have been asked during data sharing information sessions with over 1000 researchers at the University of Cambridge are any indicator, then there is a great deal of confusion about sharing source code <http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/faq-0/source-code>. … We decided to call in expert help. Shoaib Sufi <http://www.software.ac.uk/about/people/shoaib-sufi> and Neil Chue Hong <http://www.software.ac.uk/about/people/neil-chue-hong>* from the Software Sustainability Institute <http://www.software.ac.uk/> agreed to lead a workshop on Software Licensing in September, at the Computer Lab in Cambridge. </snip> 

Danny

Dr Danny Kingsley
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Cambridge University Library
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