As I write this, Open Access week is still many months away. But it never hurts to plan ahead right? Sure you could organize talks to promote open access but why not switch it up and try to educate users with a fun interactive game? Creating a good game is not easy, but fortunately libraries around the world have done amazing work in designing some games around open access and in the spirit of openness

I was recently invited to the Changing Landscape of Science and Technology Libraries (CLSTL) 2019 conference.

There is something in the air right now around datasets. Increasingly, datasets are being made visible and shared online in data repositories. Undoubtedly getting researchers to deposit their datasets whether open or even closed to data repositories is a difficult task, but once that is achieved the next challenge lies with making the datasets discoverable.

Note : Jan 2019 - I wrote the bulk of this in July 2018, when Scopus announced a deal with Unpaywall.

Historical note : This was written before the launch of APA 7.

I was recently invited to the OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Conference Meeting 2018 in Bangkok to speak.

I expect that most readers of this blog are familar with Lorcan Dempsey's idea of distinguishing between "outside-in" vs "inside-out" activities for libraries.

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It's not big secret that Machine learning and AI is an increasingly important topic to study.

As the battle for open access , or more accurately the route taken to open access rages on, I have become aware of the rise of a new type of "open" - the quest for "open infrastructure".

I have been recently thinking about dataset discovery, most recently on the possible impact of Google Dataset search.