[GOAL] Open Access Week at the Office of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge - Thursday

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting>

Hello all,

Thursday already and Open Access Week is powering along.

*Blog*

Today's blog "*Are academic librarians getting the training they need?*" 
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=995 discusses the issue 
of changing skill requirements for librarians in an academic context and 
the apparent lack of recognition of this in traditional library training.

*Announcement*
The Office of Scholarly Communication's survey on the educational 
background of those working in scholarly communication has struck a 
chord with the community, receiving 439 responses since it opened. 
Responses show that many of those working in this area come from outside 
librarianship, mainly from research and IT roles. Even those who do come 
from within the sector learn many of the necessary skills on the job 
rather than through formal education. This is opening up some 
interesting areas for future discussion and investigation.

  We have decided to keep the survey open for one more week so you still 
have an opportunity to participate - 
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ScholCommsEd Please complete the survey 
by *5pm BST on Monday 31 October*

*Events*

The recordings from our events in the last two days are now available if 
you missed the live streams:

  * /"Preprints: biomedical science publication in the era of Twitter
    and Facebook"/  is available from our OA Week page
    http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-access/open-access-week-2016 You can also
    check out the hashtag #pptsca
  * /"Open Access: grassroots movement or top-down imposition?"/  was
    held yesterday. The panel came to some interesting conclusions - not
    least that if something that starts as a grassroots movement is
    taken up by government and funders, then this is a sign of success.
    Also that even if the agenda for open access is 'co-opted' in the
    process, if the end result is the same this doesn't necessarily
    matter. You may have your own opinon - you can watch the recording
    here http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-access/open-access-week-2016 The
    hashtag  for the event is #OAWeekCam

This evening we will be launching our upgraded university repository, 
Apollo.

-- 
Dr Danny Kingsley
Head, Office of Scholarly Communication
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
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