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Research Communication Workshop Snow Day Edition
- 1. Research Communication Workshop Robin Champieux http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7023-9832 Nicole Vasilevsky http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5208-3432 Jackie Wirz http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2046-610X Online Northwest, 2014 Snow Day Edition
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- 8. Strengthening the Network Image credit: http://cygx1.deviantart.com/art/Translucent-Symbiosis-55747790
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to the snowday edition of the Research Communication Workshop, by Robin Champieux, Nicole Vasilevsky, and Jackie Wirz of Oregon Health and Science University.
- We’re going to begin with a brief overview of the current and changing landscape of scholarly communication.
- The traditional model of scholarly communication is fairly straightforward. Successful research is shared via presentations, papers, and monographs, after data is collected and analyzed.
- This model is slow. For example, a recent study by Bjork and Solomon clocked the mean timeframe from submission to to publication for biomedical journals at over 9 months and for all of the nine disciplines studied the mean was 12.8 months: http://openaccesspublishing.org/oa11/article.pdfGregg Gordon of the Social Science Research Network recently described the article of a snapshot of science. Within biomedical research, for example, discovery and ultimately new medical treatments are made up of, among other things, lots of these snapshots.
- The traditional model is also very formalized in respect to when in the research cycle scholarship is shared (well after a study has taken place), how it is disseminated (scholarly monographs and peer-reviewed articles), to whom one is communicating (most often other experts in a specialized field) and how impact is measured (citation counts to publications).
- Finally, the traditional model is unilateral in that it doesn’t easily facilitate dynamic, real-time, interaction between scholars, outside of the society meeting or conference. Nor does it easily further conversation between scientists, scholars, and the public.
- The Internet has had a profound affect on scholarly communication, wherein the traditional model is being reimagined; ultimately, in the pursuit of advancing the discovery process. And, this reimaging includes new modes and models.But the internet, and technology more generally, have also amplified and affected a pre-existing characteristic of the research process – mainly that its activities –such as, forming and testing hypothesis, experimentation, funding, and publication, are symbiotic and networked.
- For the online version of our Online NW workshop. Nicole, Jackie and I are going going to focus on three problem themes that hinder scholar communication and knowledge advancement, and the corresponding solutions that libraries and librarians are helping to build and promote – our assertion being that these solutions can strengthen the quality and efficiency of the entire research process.