[GOAL] BLOG: The value of embracing unknown unknowns

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting>

Hello all, 

You may be interested in a blog I have just posted to accompany a talk I gave this week to the Research Libraries UK Conference held at the British Library. ‘The value of embracing unknown unknowns’ https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=594 <https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=594>

The slides are available http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley/the-value-of-embracing-unknown-unknowns <http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley/the-value-of-embracing-unknown-unknowns> and the Twitter hashtag from the event was #rluk16.

The talk centred around what happened when I wrote a debate piece with my long standing collaborator, Dr Mary Anne Kennan, published in August 2015: Open Access: The Whipping Boy for Problems in Scholarly Publishing <http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/iss1/14> http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/iss1/14/ <http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/iss1/14/>. This original 10,000 word article was the starting point for a debate where five people provided rebuttals to our position and we were then given the opportunity to write a rejoinder to these. All the articles were published together.

The take-home messages from the talk were:

Scholarly Communication is not recognised as a research discipline
If we rely on the academic community to come to their own epiphanies about OA we will never get there
Librarians in the academic space also need to know about Scholarly Communication issues
It is very challenging to find any formal training or education for the library community on these topics
Librarians must shift from managing the academic literature to participating in the generation of it. 





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Regards

Danny

Dr Danny Kingsley
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