As part of the Open Access Week 2017, the Drill Hall Library hosted an event for researchers, based around playing the new game created by Chris Morrison and Jane Secker: The Publishing Trap. This game is designed to help inform researchers about the publishing process – each player or team takes the role of an academic and the game follows their career from finishing their PhD to their..erm…deaths and beyond. You can find out more about the game on the UK Copyright Literacy website. The event was open to researchers from all three universities based at the Medway campus, and there were research support staff from each university on hand to play the game with researchers and answer any tricky questions that might crop up.
Here are some pictures from the event:
Some of us had played the game before, as a test run, when it was still a prototype, so it was very exciting to see the finished product. It is a really useful and entertaining way of learning, teaching and thinking about the publishing process, so I hope we can use it for researchers at CCCU in the near future.
Other useful links about The Publishing Trap:
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