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Unleashing academic freedom: the case for open educational resources

Thanks to the University of Sheffield Library (Helen Moore and Maria Mawson, Faculty Librarians) for allowing us to repost this blog in relation to Open Access Week. In this May 2021 blog post we addressed the issues surrounding the provision of textbooks, issues not caused by the pandemic but certainly magnified during that time. We’re […]

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Going beyond Open Access: Open and Inclusive Scholarly Publishing at JIL

This post has been written for us by Alison Hicks, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Literacy. I have to confess that I always thought the Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) was doing pretty well on the open and inclusive scholarly publishing front; we have over ten years’ experience as a diamond open access journal,

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Event review: Exploring the intersections of scholarly communication and information literacy

Hannah Pyman is the Information Literacy Coordinator at University of Essex library, and attended the recent CILIP Information Literacy Group event on “Exploring intersections of scholarly communication and information literacy” in Liverpool. Hannah was the recipient of an ILG event bursary in honour of Marion Kelt and has kindly provided a review of the day.

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Guest post: Which way now? Supporting librarians’ skills in an ever changing landscape

In our latest guest post, Claire Sewell, Research Support Skills Coordinator at the University of Cambridge, explores the relationship between scholarly communications and information literacy. Claire will be one of the speakers at the forthcoming CILIP Information Literacy Group event on “Exploring the intersections of information literacy and scholarly communication”, which will be hosted at Liverpool

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Event reminder: Exploring the intersections of information literacy and scholarly communication

The CILIP Information Literacy Group are facilitating a one-day event in December 2019 that will explore the intersections of information literacy and scholarly communications, and how they both relate to the concept of openness. Event: Exploring the intersections of information literacy and scholarly communication Date: Monday, 2nd December 2019, 10am – 4.00pm Venue: Liverpool Central Library Through presentations, workshops

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Bursary place available: Exploring the intersections of information literacy and scholarly communication

Tickets are now available for the Information Literacy Group’s forthcoming event: Exploring the intersections of information literacy and scholarly communication (full event details and standard booking information available here). ILG is pleased to offer a free bursary place for this event, in memory of friend and colleague Marion Kelt. Marion was well known and respected in the library

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Booking now: Exploring the intersections of information literacy and scholarly communication

The CILIP Information Literacy Group is pleased to announce a one-day event exploring the intersections of information literacy and scholarly communications. Event: Exploring the intersections of information literacy and scholarly communication Date: Monday, 2nd December 2019, 10am – 4.00pm Venue: Liverpool Central Library This event is aimed at information literacy practitioners and library staff working

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