On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Derek Law <d.law at 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, 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20120329/d2a3cca0/attachment.html
