<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>Hello all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You may be interested in the latest blog from Unlocking Research: "Consider yourself disrupted - notes from RLUK2016" - <a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=601" class="">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=601</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A teaser:<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.6667px; widows: 1;" class="">The <a href="http://rlukconference.com/" data-mce-href="http://rlukconference.com/" style="color: rgb(172, 4, 4); text-decoration: none;" class="">2016 Research Libraries UK</a> conference was held at the British Library from 9-11 March on the theme of disruptive innovation. This blog pulls out some of the highlights personally gained from the conference:</p><ul style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-type: square; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.6667px; widows: 1;" class=""><li class="">If librarians are to be considered important – we as a community need to be strong in our grasp of understanding scholarly communication issues</li><li class="">We need to know the facts about our subscriptions to, usage of and contributions to scholarly publishing</li><li class="">We need high level support in institutions to back libraries in advocacy and negotiation with publishers</li><li class="">Scientists are rarely rewarded for being right, so the scientific record is being distorted by the scientific ecosystem</li><li class="">Society needs more open research to ensure reproducibility and robust research</li><li class="">The library of the future will have to be exponentially more customisable than the current offering</li><li class="">The information seeking behaviour of researchers is iterative and messy and does not match library search services</li><li class="">Libraries need to ‘create change to triumph’ - to be inventors rather than imitators</li><li class="">Management of open access issues need to be shared across institutions with positive outcomes when research offices and libraries collaborate.</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.6667px; widows: 1;" class="">I have blogged separately about my own contribution ‘<a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=594" data-mce-href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=594" style="color: rgb(172, 4, 4); text-decoration: none;" class="">The value of embracing unknown unknowns’</a> - <a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=594" class="">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=594</a></p><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Danny</div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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