Oh wait he works for MI6 doesn't he

I haven't seen many Bond films

SIMON what I demand from James Bond films is REALISM

Bond is dead and MI5 is suffering the impact of government cuts; Moneypenny has been made redundant as a result and is suing for workplace harassment

This year, the team are focussing on:

✅ National Libraries legal deposit workflows for #OA monographs
✅ Archiving & preservation of PhD Theses at UK unis libraries/repositories
✅ Challenge of link rot & the proposal to change to a PDF/A standard
✅ Developing Open Archiving principles

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So it's about viewing public libraries not just as community hubs or amenities, but as part of our public knowledge infrastructure - and extending the original public library mission of making printed knowledge and learning available to everyone, to digital knowledge as well.

Basically - there's a policy gap! Research policy embraces open access, via REF, funder mandates etc, but library & cultural policy rarely even mentions it - so publicly funded research is increasingly 'out there', but the public isn't supported to learn about its existence or how to access it.

I never knew about these! Really interesting.

(Albeit it also provides fresh evidence that the 'OA books don't come in paper formats' myth refuses to die... We need to keep showing the beautiful physical copies of OA books because this belief is still staggering on!)