<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Derek Law <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d.law@strath.ac.uk">d.law@strath.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think Peter raises a very valid point which has obsessed me for ages. Because we all occupy multiple spaces,<br>
not just one. When I publish LIS research I'm a researcher; when I write on my hobby - naval history - I'm an<br>
amateur historian; when I work on Zooniverse projects I'm a citizen scientist. And yet the tools and techniques<br>
I use are the same for each. Users CANNOT be pigeonholed simplistically, as they have complex interactions<br>
with research.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Thanks Derek,<br> <br></div><div>For those who are interested Mike Taylor and the open-access group of the Open Knowledge Foundation have created a site <a href="http://whoneedsaccess.org/">http://whoneedsaccess.org/</a> 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.<br>
<br><br clear="all"><br></div></div><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>