Let's be Open

I had promised myself that I would start a blog in 2018 in order to start in some tiny way becoming more active in and around the topics I care about. I think other people care about them too and are probably already articulating them satisfactorily without my input, but like I said, this is about motivating me to become more engaged. Well we all have to start somewhere don't we? So what are the things that I would like to write about? Firstly, evidence based thinking and why we should all be doing it. Secondly Open Access literature and open culture, where we are and where we want to be. These are tangential connected, they're both about access to and exploitation of research evidence but they are different topics. I think the reason I care particularly about these topics is my job. As a government type Librarian my work is focused on encouraging not necessarily academically inclined professionals that Libraries are relevant to their work, promoting a 'what works' ac