Elsevier’s CEO discusses open access and “partnering with the librarian community to support the next chapter of research." View the full speech here: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/kumsal-bayazit-on-collaborating-to-support-the-research-community-the-next-chapter

1. November 7, 2019
Kumsal Bayazit
Collaborating to Support
the Research Community:
The Next Chapter

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Building stronger bridges

3. Today
1. Observing the dynamic world of research
2. Learning from diverse perspectives
3. Looking forward to the future
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4. 1. Observing the Dynamic
World of Research

5. Life expectancy: From 31 to 72 years since 1800
5Source: Riley (2005), Clio Infra (2015), UN Population Division (2019), https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
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6. Extreme poverty: From 85% to 9% since 1800
6Source: OWID based on World Bank (2019) and Bourguinon and Morrisson (2002), https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
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7. Literacy rates: From 10% to 86% since 1800
7Source: Our World in Data based on OECD and UNESCO (2016), https://ourworldindata.org/literacy
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8. HIV infections per year nearly halved since 1997
8Source: IMHE, Global Burden of Disease, https://ourworldindata.org/hiv-aids
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9. Access to electricity: From 72% to 85% since 1991
9Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI), and UN Population Prospects, https://ourworldindata.org/energy-access
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10. Children with at least one vaccination:
From 22% to 88% since 1980
10Source: WHO (2017) and UN Population Division (2017), https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination
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11. Women in the workforce: Overall vs. Research
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000 decennial censuses and 2011 American Community Survey
The Intersectionality of Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin in the STEM Workforce1 Anthony Martínez and Asiah Gayfield
Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division U.S. Census Bureau SEHSD Working Paper Number 2018-27 February 2019
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12. 12
Grand Challenges in Research
Global warming Ocean pollution Food & water security Lifespan & quality Social inequality & growth

13. 2. Learning from
Diverse Perspectives
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14. Perspectives: Government and Funders
• Protect and grow R&D spending
• Address international and interdisciplinary
Grand Challenges
• Make funding choices
• Demonstrate research impact on society
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15. Perspectives: Research Leaders
• Build best in class research
organizations
• Attract top researchers and
collaborators
• Fund facilities and high-impact research
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16. Perspectives: Researchers
• Discover and invent to solve problems
• Win funding, attract talent and collaborators
• Ensure reproducibility
• Understand adjacent fields, connect the dots
across disciplines
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17. Perspectives: Librarians
• Delivering universities’ missions
• Continue as guardians of knowledge dissemination
• Enable data management and reproducibility
• Preserve and showcase intellectual outputs
• Evolve assessment of research impact
• Progress Open Access and Open Science
• Manage costs
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18. Fundamental issue: R&D spend, library budgets
18Source: 1. OECD, 2. Scopus, 3. ARL data, including reproduction of chart: http://www.libqual.org/documents/admin/EG_2.pdf
Library expenditure CAGR based on absolute total library spending, based on ARL data 2007-2016.
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CAGR: 3-4% CAGR: 4-5% CAGR: 1-2%

19. Perspectives: Librarians
• Delivering universities’ missions
• Continue as guardians of knowledge dissemination
• Enable data management and reproducibility
• Preserve and showcase intellectual outputs
• Evolve assessment of research impact
• Progress Open Access and Open Science
• Manage costs
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20. Elsevier fully supports Open Access
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21. Obstacles to overcome: (1) Researchers’ views
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*Source: CDL Pay it Forward report: https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ICIS-UC-Pay-It-Forward-Final-Report.rev_.7.18.16.pdf
“When asked about the importance of various journal
criteria in deciding where to publish, authors placed
journal quality above all else… Open Access
ranked as least important ...it will be very difficult,
impossible in some cases to convince authors to
switch to new journals in a new publishing system
purely for the sake of open access.”
- California Digital Library Pay it Forward report, 2016*
Importance of Factors When
Selecting Where to Publish
(highest to lowest)*
1. Quality and reputation of journal
2. Fit with scope of journal
3. Audience
4. Impact Factor
5. Likelihood of acceptance
6. Time from submission to publication
7. Editor or editorial board
8. Open Access

22. Obstacles to overcome: (2) Funding flows
U15 is:
• Strongly committed to Open
Access
• Strongly supportive of
DEAL negotiating team
• …But clear that funding
redistribution challenges
must be addressed
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German U15 press release: https://www.german-u15.de/aktivitaeten/publikationen/statements/DEAL/index.html

23. Obstacles to overcome: (3) Predatory publishing
• Fact: Gold OA publishers are
paid if article is accepted, but
not if it is rejected
• Challenge for Gold OA
publishing:
− Maintaining standards of quality
and integrity
− Upholding trust in science
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24. Approaches vary widely to overcome obstacles
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25. Trust
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26. Committed to social responsibility
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• #2 of 1,200 in S&P rankings1
• #2 of 100 in Harvard Business Review rankings2
• #4 of 100 Responsibility100 Index3
Source: 1. CSRHUB https://www.csrhub.com/CSR_and_sustainability_information/RELX-PLC,
2. Responsibility100 Index https://members.tortoisemedia.com/2019/09/23/responsibility-100-day-one/content.html,
3. Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-ceo-100-2019-edition

27. 3. Looking forward to the future
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28. Imagine…
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29. Imagine… no friction in peer review
• Evolve peer review traditions
around anonymity and credit
• Deploy ML to tackle plagiarism,
fraudulent submissions and
manipulated images
• Use AI to improve author journal
submission experiences
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30. Imagine… no friction between disciplines
• Support interdisciplinary
research with Grand Challenge
journals
• Recommend relevant content
and collaborators that connects
the dots for researchers
30Source: https://www.cell.com/one-earth/home

31. Imagine… no friction in resource allocation
• Identify hot areas of research
where there are distinct
capabilities to leverage
31Source: Scival
Topics of Prominence (Hot Areas of Research Map):

32. Imagine… no friction in data management
• Enable researchers to
document methods, protocols,
and manage data according to
FAIR principles
32Source: Hivebench, Mendeley

33. Imagine… easily demonstrating impact
• Establish new standards and
indicators beyond publications
and citations that measure
societal impact
33Source: https://www.elsevier.com/icsr

34. Imagine… inclusive and diverse research and
research communities
• Drive culture change and
deploy analytics to:
− Measure progress
− Balance participation: editorial
boards, conferences, peer review
− Include gender in the science
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35. Imagine… the possibilities of partnerships
• Co-invest and work together
where, in the community’s
judgment, it will help us all go
further faster
• Multi-lateral issues need
multi-stakeholder solutions
35Source: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/105338/paper_108.pdf?sequence=1
Example: Research Data Management Librarian Academy

36. Conclusion, and
thank you

37. Q&A