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