[GOAL] Open Access at Cambridge - Friday

[Danny Kingsley]

Hello all,

Here we are at the end of Open Access Week 2015, but it is not over yet!

*Announcement - Research Support Ambassadors*

Scholarly communication is an increasingly dynamic area, and the support 
researchers require is becoming more complex. The changing policy 
landscape means there are more requirements for researchers to manage 
their research outputs in different ways. Information managers (such as 
librarians) are the perfect people to help, and the library community at 
Cambridge is working on a solution.

The Research Support Ambassador Program has gathered dynamic, proactive 
library staff to work on developing a series of 'modular' resources to 
assist the research community with four areas:

  * Scholarly publishing lifecycle
  * Making theses open access
  * Managing your online presence
  * Research support at the University


Ambassadors are benefitting from participating with increased 
understanding and knowledge about the changing landscape, and 
opportunities for new roles in a changing workplace (both within and 
outside Cambridge). The University will also benefit through having a 
more aware and switched in research community, better ability to meet 
funder expectations, and increased dissemination and impact of research 
outputs. The libraries of Cambridge will also benefit due to an engaged 
and informed workforce, an increased profile amongst the research 
community and importantly, relevance in an increasingly online world.

The Ambassadors will be presenting the newly developed resources to the 
wider library community on the 19th November and we will be launching 
the program to the research community shortly after that.

*Blog - Open Access around the world
*The last in the series of blogs written by the team at the Office of 
Scholarly Communciation is from Dr Lauren Cadwallader with some 
observations on the bigger open access picture.

https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=362

*Twitter activity - #OAchat2015 *

Today at 3pm @UKCoRR is hosting a synchronous Twitter chat to coincide 
with the end of Open Access Week 2015 using the hashtag #OAchat2015; you 
may also wish to tag your tweets #OAWeek2015 (space allowing!) The theme 
of OA Week 2015 is "Open for Collaboration" and the chat will be 
structured around 10 questions which will be tweeted in order by 
@UKCoRR. Follow the conversation or join in....

*The Conversation - Your questions answered on open access*

Dr Danny Kingsley participated in a panel publication in The 
Conversation which answered readers questions about open access, 
published today. 
https://theconversation.com/your-questions-answered-on-open-access-49284**

*Debate tonight - Can society afford open access?*

For those of you who are Cambridge based please join in the fun tonight 
at 6pm in the Main Lecture Room, Old Divinity School, St John's College, 
All Saints Passage CB2 1TP
Open access disseminates research to the community, circumventing 
expensive publisher subscriptions. But there is a high cost associated 
with open access and it is not without risk. Tonight scholars, 
publishers, administrators and others will discuss the question 'Can 
society afford open access?'

Bookings: 
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/panel-discussion-can-society-afford-open-access 
(NOTE: If you can't make it don't panic, we will be filming commentary 
from each of the panellists and making this available after the event.)

Regards,

Danny

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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: dak45 at cam.ac.uk
T: @dannykay68
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