From: SANFORD G THATCHER <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 22:50:10 -0400

I don't see copyediting listed as a skill needed for
scholarly communication. Was this survey limited to librarians?

Sandy thatcher


On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 10:23 PM LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:59:41 -0400
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>FYI via infoDOCKET.
>
>A new blog post from U. of Cambridge Office of Scholarly Communication:
>https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p 43
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>"This blog post is part of the write-up of an investigation into the
>background of people working in scholarly communication, with a
>specific focus on skills."
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>"In late 2016 we conducted a survey to find out more about this issue.
>We were slightly overwhelmed by the popularity of the survey which
>gathered over 500 responses from people who self-identified as working
>in scholarly communication which we defined as:
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>The process by which academics, scholars and researchers share and
>publish their research findings with the wider academic community and
>beyond. This includes, but is not limited to, areas such as open
>access and open data, copyright, institutional repositories and
>research data management."
>
>You can read a summary of some of the findings from this research here
>
>but we wanted to delve a little deeper and look at which skills
>scholarly communication staff felt they needed and how they developed
>them. This blog post looks at that question.
>
>https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p 43
>
>See Also:
>
>Where did they come from? Educational background of people in
>scholarly communication (March 9, 2017)
>https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p 13
>
>
>__gary
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>Gary D. Price, MLIS
>Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal's infoDOCKET
>Information Industry Analyst
>Librarian
>
>http://infoDOCKET.com
>@infodocket