And Sometime We Play Games | Ithaka S+R

"Our work at Ithaka S+R, such as through surveys of faculty and graduate students and targeted qualitative studies of scholars by discipline, has consistently uncovered scholars’ ambivalence to recent shifts in the scholarly communications landscape. While disciplinary publishing cultures vary, many of the ambivalences scholars report are held in common. For example, scholars in many fields struggle with choices around publishing in open access journals and making information available in institutional repositories, they often can’t secure funding for pursuing gold open access, and they express confusion around what academic social networking is and how it relates to other mechanisms for digitally storing and sharing research. Scholars in a wide variety of fields also believe that it is important to share insights from research with society-at-large but do not perceive that they have the skills or supports to communicate with the public themselves

For these reasons we were excited to learn about The Publishing Trap, a board game created by UK Copyright Literacy, which aims to provide an entertaining education on scholarly communications."