4. Why do we publish our work?
f their work (Swan and Brown, 2005). Several reasons are considered very important but the
ne that comes out top is to communicate my results to my peers. Researchers consider it a
op priority to report their results to their peer community so that others can read and build upon
hem. They wish to make an impact.
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igure 7.1: Researchers’ reasons for publishing their workSwan 2006. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12428/
6. Can we easily search
repositories?
Kim 2006. doi: 10.1002/meet.1450420173
7. Peter Murray-Rust
ILI2009: Why scientists can't search
institutional Repositories
http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/
murrayrust/?p=2125
Can we easily search across
institutional repositories?
15. Dorothea Salo
This disconnect (from scientists) is the
number-one threat to science librarianship
today.
Are librarians and researchers
talking to each other?
16. August 3, 2010
Too Many Researchers Are Reluctant to
Share Their Data
By Felicia LeClere
And what about data?
17. Will we see the same
discussion all over again?