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Hello all, The 4th Academic & Research Libraries Group South West (ARLG SW) Discover Academic Research Training and Support (DARTS 4) conference was held at Dartington Hall, Totnes, on Thursday 5th - Friday 6th June 2014, and was a resounding success. The presentations at the conference were: ·"*Designing practitioner research for impact*", Miggie Pickton, University of Northampton ·"*Research Data Management - where are we now?*", Jenni Crossley, University of the West of England (UWE) ·"*Stuff and data: challenges for research data management in the visual arts*", Leigh Garrett, University for the Creative Arts (UCA) ·"*From reading rooms to research commons*", Sheila Corrall, University of Pittsburgh ·"*Open Access at the Coal Face: attitudes and practical responses*", Yvonne Budden, Chair, The United Kingdom Council for Research Repositories (UKCoRR) ·"*Open Access: recalibrating the relationships between libraries, research offices, publishers, funders and others*", Neil Jacobs, JISC ·"*Communication with research students*", Katie Fraser and Nathan Rush, De Montfort University (DMU) All the slides from the presentations can now be found at: http://www.slideshare.net/ARLGSW/tag/darts4. Also on that slideshare page you will find the discussion topics suggested by delegates (on the theme “Challenges faced by research support librarians”) and the solutions put forward to some of these challenges. You can also see a storify of the event at: http://sfy.co/pXUH Many thanks to the speakers for making this conference possible, and to the delegates for contributing to the lively debates! The DARTS 4 Committee #darts4 @arlgsw