Over the last week, I have been running some workshops as part of our Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme. This particular workshop challenges PGs to start thinking of themselves as both producers and consumers of information and what it really means to be an information literate researcher. Interestingly, when they self assess their own IL level, very few give themselves top marks, so that gives us a starting point for discussion. We talk about way to get started with writing, thinking about writing book reviews or opinion pieces maybe and they think about their IPR rights, retaining their copyright, their views on Open Access publication and their responsibilities to their peers to cite correctly.

The Library in Hadrian’s Villa near Rome, July 2009