‘Be nice to each other’ – the second Researcher 2 Reader conference | Unlocking Research

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-02-27

Summary:

"Aaaaaaaaaaargh! was Mark Carden’s summary of the second annual Researcher 2 Reader conference, along with a plea that the different players show respect to one another. My take home messages were slightly different:

  • Publishers should embrace values of researchers & librarians and become more open, collaborative, experimental and disinterested.
  • Academic leaders and institutions should do their bit in combating the metrics focus.
  • Big Deals don’t save libraries money, what helps them is the ability to cancel journals.
  • The green OA = subscription cancellations is only viable in a utopian, almost fully green world.
  • There are serious issues in the supply chain of getting books to readers.
  • And copyright arrangements in academia do not help scholarship or protect authors*."

Link:

https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1316

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Date tagged:

02/27/2017, 11:43

Date published:

02/27/2017, 06:43