<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><Apologies for cross posting></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello all, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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’ <a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=594" class="">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=594</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The slides are available <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley/the-value-of-embracing-unknown-unknowns" class="">http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley/the-value-of-embracing-unknown-unknowns</a> and the Twitter hashtag from the event was #rluk16.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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: <span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none" class=""><a href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/iss1/14" class="">Open Access:
The Whipping Boy for Problems in Scholarly Publishing</a> </span><a href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/iss1/14/" class="">http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol37/iss1/14/</a>. 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.</div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The take-home messages from the talk were:<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><ul class=""><li class="">Scholarly Communication is not recognised as a
research discipline</li><li class="">If we rely on the academic community to come to
their own epiphanies about OA we will never get there</li><li class="">Librarians in the academic space also need to know about
Scholarly Communication issues</li><li class="">It is very challenging to find any formal training or
education for the library community on these topics</li><li class="">Librarians must shift from managing the academic
literature to participating in the generation of it. </li></ul><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<!--EndFragment--></div><div class="">Comments to the list please - the spam problem on the blog is ongoing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Danny</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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