The document summarizes the transformation of scholarly communication from traditional print-based publishing to the modern digital era. It describes how the internet disrupted the established system of scientific publishing by enabling new open access models. While publishers initially adapted by taking their journals online, they have increasingly expanded their businesses and influence over the scholarly ecosystem. Libraries now play a changing role and must collaborate more closely with researchers to support new forms of scholarship. However, change remains slow at older universities like Cambridge due to their complex governance systems and academic culture that values independence.
Open to Opportunity: Possibilities for libraries in open education Sarah Cohen
Libraries around the country, and the world, are increasingly devoting time and resources to open education. But why? In what way are libraries part of this movement and how does it serve our missions and services? This presentation will describe the value that libraries’ engagement in this space can offer to our institutions, our students, and our profession; and, to outline possible ways forward for libraries that are interested in committing their limited resources to this transformative effort.
Open to Opportunity: Possibilities for libraries in open education Sarah Cohen
Libraries around the country, and the world, are increasingly devoting time and resources to open education. But why? In what way are libraries part of this movement and how does it serve our missions and services? This presentation will describe the value that libraries’ engagement in this space can offer to our institutions, our students, and our profession; and, to outline possible ways forward for libraries that are interested in committing their limited resources to this transformative effort.
A focus on measurement and assessment of teaching and
learning outcomes has become entrenched in policy and the
strategies of academic institutions. In the UK this trend has
crystallised in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
Librarians are increasingly managing course-specific resources
that up to now had been the province of the Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE) or digital textbook platforms. This session
looks at the impacts on content and licensing, e-textbooks and the potential merging of library and educational technology
Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
This workshop focuses on the key decisions involved when contemplating library- or university-based open access publishig against the backdrop of a vibrant, coplex and fast-moving UK and global scene. It touches upon issues of structure, accountability, expectations and also format and genre- e.g. books vs journals or textbooks - and problems connected to the diverse levels of awareness that exist about publishing and open access within academic communities. Andrew Lockett, University of Westminster Press
This is a presentation given to the RLUK 2016 conference held 9-11 March 2016 at the British Library.
Abstract: Before we challenge something it is helpful to understand it. In this talk Danny Kingsley will draw on a debate piece she recently co-authored that argued that open access has been systematically blamed for problems with the scholarly publishing system. This talk argues that amongst librarians, the knowledge of the scholarly communication system is even weaker than within the research community. As a library community we need to increase real understanding of the beast with which we dance. To do so requires a systematic change to the way librarians are educated, their professional development and a shift from managing the academic literature to participating in the generation of it. To not do so risks irrelevance into the future.
Janette Burke, Monash University, explores the shift to e, and it doesn't just stand for electronic but engaging, exciting, embracing change, enabling learning.
The main challenges facing universities and authors in moving to OA for journal articles are achieving compliance, managing costs, and realising the benefits of OA. This session will outline Jisc services that help, from submission of an article, through acceptance, to publication and use. It will show how these services build on existing infrastructure, where possible, to provide a solution that, while tailored to UK circumstances, is more widely applicable.
The vision for ‘the Research Paper of the Future’ promises
to make scholarship more discoverable, transparent,
inspectable, reusable and sustainable. Yet new forms
of scientific output also challenge authors, librarians,
publishers and service providers to register, validate,
disseminate and preserve them as elements of the scholarly
record. What constitutes authorship in a collaborative
process of GitHub pull requests and commits? When to
capture, reference and preserve dynamic data sets that
change over time? How to package and render complex
executable collections for review and delivery? This session
considers key challenges in operationalising the Research
Paper of the Future from the perspectives of a publisher,
a library administrator and a scientist/developer of a
collaborative authoring platform.
What support is being provided to researchers? A view from a universityUoLResearchSupport
Short presentation on Friday 26th December as part of the FAIRsFAIR workshop: Advancing the skills agenda for reproducibility, open and FAIR. A virtual National Roadshow from FAIRsFAIR
Using social media and quantitative metrics to engage the research communityNick Sheppard
The modern university Library comprises repositories, publishing platforms and social media and is central to the dissemination mission of the University. Recent progress towards ‘Open Access’ has enabled research to be more effectively disseminated via the internet and aggregated into an Institutional Repository, empowering institutions to disseminate their own research and monitor associated metrics. A repository is also an ideal home for grey literature and research data, where IPR is more likely to be retained by universities which are increasingly minting DOIs for this type of content, ensuring persistence and enabling (alternative) metrics. This case study will present a Library led social media initiative at the University of Leeds examining local challenges and presenting usage data from Altmetric.com, Twitter Analytics and IRUS-UK.
The University of Leeds is a research intensive Russell Group University with a well-developed ecosystem of research oriented Twitter accounts. These include both University branded accounts overseen by schools, faculties or research groups as well as a huge number of ‘personal’ accounts operated by individual staff or students. In 2012 an account focussed on research data was set up in the Library as part of the Roadmap project but was used only sporadically before being rebranded in 2017 and used more actively to engage with the research community, to promote both OA research papers and datasets.
Themes and challenges include quantitative metrics, institutional and departmental oversight of social media, operational implications and sustainability.
Reveal Digital: innovative library crowdfunding model for open access digita...PaolaMarchionni
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Reflections on Open Educational Practice Nick Sheppard
Slides from a presentation by Antonio Martínez-Arboleda on 18 January 2022: A global challenge: digital and open education for inclusive societies
Antonio Martínez-Arboleda is Academic Lead for Open Educational Practice and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education of the University of Leeds. Antonio has been a champion and practitioner of open education since 2009, initially as part of the Humbox team and co-researcher of the JISC funded project OpenLIVES on Digitised Life Stories. His scholarship focuses on the areas of OER (Open Educational Resources) and Critical Digital Pedagogies.
Today’s publishing environment is evolving. New University
Presses (NUPs) and Academic-Led Presses (ALPs) play an
increasing role in the shift in scholarly communication. In 2016
Jisc conducted a landscape study to provide a unique view of the
motivations, models, policies and future direction of these new
presses. This session will report on the findings of the research.
It will also discuss the next steps Jisc are taking to provide
support in this rapidly developing area, such as new methods
of publishing and scholarly outputs and advice and best practice
for existing and new presses.
This presentation was provided by Kieth Webster of Carnegie Mellon University, during the NISO event "No More Big Deal? Picking and Choosing Titles for Use," held on July 6, 2020.
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Adaption—The Changing Nature of Libraries (Part 1 of 1), Roger SchonfeldAllen Press
Video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV58tFYgA2g&index=4&list=PLybpVL27qHff3BVHuNXqYsqTs2e98_MpT
Sometimes survival means being faster, stronger, or smarter. Sometimes it requires flexibility, alertness, and the ability to adapt. Academic libraries are in the midst of a digital transformation, but in this transitional period some real tensions demand strategic nuance. An expert in the changing roles of the library, scholarly publisher, and learned society, keynote speaker Roger Schonfeld will lead us through the three tensions underlying the changing library environment. Each of these tensions is a budgetary tension, and each of them is a systems tension, and for each of them the library would benefit from a more sophisticated engagement by publishers and vendors.
A focus on measurement and assessment of teaching and
learning outcomes has become entrenched in policy and the
strategies of academic institutions. In the UK this trend has
crystallised in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
Librarians are increasingly managing course-specific resources
that up to now had been the province of the Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE) or digital textbook platforms. This session
looks at the impacts on content and licensing, e-textbooks and the potential merging of library and educational technology
Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
This workshop focuses on the key decisions involved when contemplating library- or university-based open access publishig against the backdrop of a vibrant, coplex and fast-moving UK and global scene. It touches upon issues of structure, accountability, expectations and also format and genre- e.g. books vs journals or textbooks - and problems connected to the diverse levels of awareness that exist about publishing and open access within academic communities. Andrew Lockett, University of Westminster Press
This is a presentation given to the RLUK 2016 conference held 9-11 March 2016 at the British Library.
Abstract: Before we challenge something it is helpful to understand it. In this talk Danny Kingsley will draw on a debate piece she recently co-authored that argued that open access has been systematically blamed for problems with the scholarly publishing system. This talk argues that amongst librarians, the knowledge of the scholarly communication system is even weaker than within the research community. As a library community we need to increase real understanding of the beast with which we dance. To do so requires a systematic change to the way librarians are educated, their professional development and a shift from managing the academic literature to participating in the generation of it. To not do so risks irrelevance into the future.
Janette Burke, Monash University, explores the shift to e, and it doesn't just stand for electronic but engaging, exciting, embracing change, enabling learning.
The main challenges facing universities and authors in moving to OA for journal articles are achieving compliance, managing costs, and realising the benefits of OA. This session will outline Jisc services that help, from submission of an article, through acceptance, to publication and use. It will show how these services build on existing infrastructure, where possible, to provide a solution that, while tailored to UK circumstances, is more widely applicable.
The vision for ‘the Research Paper of the Future’ promises
to make scholarship more discoverable, transparent,
inspectable, reusable and sustainable. Yet new forms
of scientific output also challenge authors, librarians,
publishers and service providers to register, validate,
disseminate and preserve them as elements of the scholarly
record. What constitutes authorship in a collaborative
process of GitHub pull requests and commits? When to
capture, reference and preserve dynamic data sets that
change over time? How to package and render complex
executable collections for review and delivery? This session
considers key challenges in operationalising the Research
Paper of the Future from the perspectives of a publisher,
a library administrator and a scientist/developer of a
collaborative authoring platform.
What support is being provided to researchers? A view from a universityUoLResearchSupport
Short presentation on Friday 26th December as part of the FAIRsFAIR workshop: Advancing the skills agenda for reproducibility, open and FAIR. A virtual National Roadshow from FAIRsFAIR
Using social media and quantitative metrics to engage the research communityNick Sheppard
The modern university Library comprises repositories, publishing platforms and social media and is central to the dissemination mission of the University. Recent progress towards ‘Open Access’ has enabled research to be more effectively disseminated via the internet and aggregated into an Institutional Repository, empowering institutions to disseminate their own research and monitor associated metrics. A repository is also an ideal home for grey literature and research data, where IPR is more likely to be retained by universities which are increasingly minting DOIs for this type of content, ensuring persistence and enabling (alternative) metrics. This case study will present a Library led social media initiative at the University of Leeds examining local challenges and presenting usage data from Altmetric.com, Twitter Analytics and IRUS-UK.
The University of Leeds is a research intensive Russell Group University with a well-developed ecosystem of research oriented Twitter accounts. These include both University branded accounts overseen by schools, faculties or research groups as well as a huge number of ‘personal’ accounts operated by individual staff or students. In 2012 an account focussed on research data was set up in the Library as part of the Roadmap project but was used only sporadically before being rebranded in 2017 and used more actively to engage with the research community, to promote both OA research papers and datasets.
Themes and challenges include quantitative metrics, institutional and departmental oversight of social media, operational implications and sustainability.
Reveal Digital: innovative library crowdfunding model for open access digita...PaolaMarchionni
Slides from a webinar held on 1 Dec 2016 by Jisc and Reveal Digital on Reveal Digital's library crowdfunding model for their Independent Voices digital collection. This includes information on pledging fees for UK universities as negotiated by Jisc Collections. A recording of the webinar is available at https://goo.gl/kEHRrD.
Reflections on Open Educational Practice Nick Sheppard
Slides from a presentation by Antonio Martínez-Arboleda on 18 January 2022: A global challenge: digital and open education for inclusive societies
Antonio Martínez-Arboleda is Academic Lead for Open Educational Practice and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education of the University of Leeds. Antonio has been a champion and practitioner of open education since 2009, initially as part of the Humbox team and co-researcher of the JISC funded project OpenLIVES on Digitised Life Stories. His scholarship focuses on the areas of OER (Open Educational Resources) and Critical Digital Pedagogies.
Today’s publishing environment is evolving. New University
Presses (NUPs) and Academic-Led Presses (ALPs) play an
increasing role in the shift in scholarly communication. In 2016
Jisc conducted a landscape study to provide a unique view of the
motivations, models, policies and future direction of these new
presses. This session will report on the findings of the research.
It will also discuss the next steps Jisc are taking to provide
support in this rapidly developing area, such as new methods
of publishing and scholarly outputs and advice and best practice
for existing and new presses.
This presentation was provided by Kieth Webster of Carnegie Mellon University, during the NISO event "No More Big Deal? Picking and Choosing Titles for Use," held on July 6, 2020.
Be careful what you wish for - unexpected policy consequencesDanny Kingsley
This presentation was given to the LIBER 2015 conference held in London in June. It discusses what policies are trying to achieve, the OA policy landscape, the devaluation of the OA 'brand' the administrative focus of OA, the spiralling cost of gold OA, the expense of green OA, and the potential effect on research practice.
Adaption—The Changing Nature of Libraries (Part 1 of 1), Roger SchonfeldAllen Press
Video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV58tFYgA2g&index=4&list=PLybpVL27qHff3BVHuNXqYsqTs2e98_MpT
Sometimes survival means being faster, stronger, or smarter. Sometimes it requires flexibility, alertness, and the ability to adapt. Academic libraries are in the midst of a digital transformation, but in this transitional period some real tensions demand strategic nuance. An expert in the changing roles of the library, scholarly publisher, and learned society, keynote speaker Roger Schonfeld will lead us through the three tensions underlying the changing library environment. Each of these tensions is a budgetary tension, and each of them is a systems tension, and for each of them the library would benefit from a more sophisticated engagement by publishers and vendors.
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Presentation on the changing relationships between research libraries, publishers, researchers and technology, and the impact of government policy on scholarly publishing and open access.
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Dr Alma Swan, "Is Open Acess just another fad?"UQSCADS
Inaugural UQ Open Access Eminent Speaker Forum
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Slides from a webinar for the Royal Society of Chemistry on 24th February 2016.
See the URI below to access the full report from the RSC survey "The role of libraries in open access publishing":
http://www.rsc.org/campaigns/m/lc/lc16013/open-access/
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Register to gain a deeper understanding of:
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• Funder and other policy requirements for Open Access (e.g. HEFCE and RCUK in the UK, Horizon2020 in Europe and NIH is the USA)
• Developing models of OA including “Gold”, “Green” and “hybrid”
• Jisc support services for OA
• Social media and OA – e.g. “Altmetrics” (alternative metrics) as potential indicators of impact beyond the traditional readership of scholarly material
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‘Emerging from the chrysalis – transforming libraries for the future’ - Danny Kingsley (University of Cambridge)
1. Office of Scholarly Communication
Emerging from the Chrysalis -
Transforming Libraries for the Future
Keynote talk at CONUL 2017
Athlone, Ireland
http://conference.conul.ie/
31 May 2017
#conulac17
Dr Danny Kingsley
Head of Scholarly Communication
University of Cambridge
@dannykay68
SLIDES: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/264492
2. For a long time nothing changed
• 1665 until 1945
– Paper journals
– Most scientific publishing is done by learned societies
– Only means of printing and distribution is publishers
– Only means of accessing this material is to personally
subscribe or to visit* the gatekeepers – a library
– Libraries and publishers have a symbiotic relationship
* and I mean visit. In person.
3. Post war growth
• 1945-1970
– Science became a profession – rapid growth
– This period confirms the role of commercial
publishers as powerful actors in scientific
publishing
• 1970 – 1995
– Last period of print publishing
– Corresponds to the Serial Pricing Crisis; it sees the
financial power of the commercial publishers
consolidating;
“Open Access: Towards the Internet of the Mind” (2017), Jean-Claude Guedon
http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai15/Untitleddocument.docx
4. Are we all comfortable?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tadpoles-Promise-Jeanne-Willis/dp/1842704265
5. This talk is about change
• Early 1990’s the internet was being used for
non commercial practices eg: military and
academic
6. Opportunity
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/bit.listser
v.vpiej-l/BoKENhK0_00
1994 – Stevan Harnad’s Subversive Proposal1991 – arXiv.org started
Physicists were sharing research by post
and then by email, but this was
cluttering up inboxes.
Paul Ginsparg recognized the need for
central storage, and in August 1991 he
created a central repository mailbox
stored at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory which could be accessed
from any computer.
Additional modes of access were soon
added: FTP in 1991, Gopher in 1992,
and the World Wide Web in 1993.
7. Biggest change the world has seen
• In 1995 commercial restrictions on the World
Wide Web were lifted
• “Computer Chronicles - The Internet” (1995)
– Who says online users are a bunch of antisocial
geeks, here we are in a café… where you get the
best of both worlds, real people and online people
… The growing power of ‘The Internet’
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=XluovrUA6Bk
9. Journals started going online
• Researchers started publishing freely available
journals online from 1993 onwards
• In 1995 a small study showed there was little
academic trust in online journals
– Kingsley D, 1995 Honours thesis (First Class) Science & Technology
Studies, University of New South Wales Science online? A contextual
analysis of the debate on electronic journals in science communication
– http://hdl.handle.net/10440/1023
10. Figure 2. The development of open access publishing 1993–2009.
Laakso M, Welling P, Bukvova H, Nyman L, Björk BC, et al. (2011) The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009. PLOS
ONE 6(6): e20961. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020961
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0020961
11. Solutions to the serials crisis?
• In 1996, the first Big Deal was brokered in the UK
with Academic Press
• In 2000 Academic Press was acquired by, and is
now part of, Reed Elsevier
– http://ir.reedelsevier.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=67171&p=irol-
newsArticle&ID=980090&highlight
• In 2002 the term ‘Open Access’ was coined
– “An old tradition and a new technology have
converged to make possible an unprecedented public
good.”
– http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read
12. The publishers also see opportunity
• “The most successful early entrants into
online academic publishing were big
commercial publishing firms. They were large
enough to absorb the technical costs
involved… digital distribution opened up new
ways of generating income”
– Big Deals
– Selling individual articles
– Paid-for data eg: usage statistics
– Charging for TDM
“Untangling Academic Publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial
interests, academic prestige ad the circulation of research”, Fyfe, A. et al, May 2017
https://zenodo.org/record/546100
13. Where were we up to?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tadpoles-Promise-Jeanne-Willis/dp/1842704265
…. – he had grown arms.
14. It’s an analogy
Photo: ep_jhu Flickr CC-BY-NC 2.0
Libraries
Publishers
Photo: Rob Flickr CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0
15. Libraries start to change
• Libraries have been taking responsibility for
providing access to the research output of
their institutions for a long time
• Cambridge established a ‘testbed’ instance of
DSpace in 2003
24. Continued existence ‘by grace of Elsevier’
https://svpow.com/2017/05/10/but-elsevier-bought-mendeley-and-ssrn-but-theyre-ok-arent-they/
25. It seems to be working
“2 stunning growth stocks that could make you rich”
– AoI, 19 April 2017
http://www.aol.co.uk/money/2017/04/19/2-
stunning-growth-stocks-that-could-make-you-rich/
26. It is not just Elsevier
Image: Chris FLICKR CC-BY-NC
28. Service provided by Wiley
https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-
Authors/licensing-open-access/open-access/author-compliance-tool.html
30. Email to head Research Office Cambridge
• (Sent in April 2017)
• Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is XXXXXXX
and I work for the scientific publisher Nature Research,
where I am the Institutional Partnerships manager for the
UK and Europe. I am responsible for working closely with
senior management throughout public sector research
intensive organisations to build new business-centred
partnerships that utilise the expertise, services and
solutions from the Nature Research portfolio.
• <snip>
• I would like to speak with you about ways Nature Research
can support your role at the University of Cambridge and
offer our expertise and solutions in science publishing,
communications and grant funding applications.
32. What is the role of the library?
• Discussion at RLUK2017 conference.
– Are librarians support staff or research partners?
– Should we be collaborating and partnering with
the research community?
– Should we be leading the University over these
issues?
• See: “Become part of the research process –
observations from RLUK2017”
– https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/
33. What is Scholarly Communication?
• Association of College and Research Libraries
(ACRL) 2003 definition:
– "the system through which research and other
scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality,
disseminated to the scholarly community, and
preserved for future use. The system includes both
formal means of communication, such as publication
in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels, such
as electronic listservs.”
• http://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit/
• Often Scholarly Communication services are run
out of libraries
34. Governance
• These are big changes that need to be pushed through
the system.
• This is particularly complicated at Cambridge
https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/governance/key-bodies/Pages/default.aspx
35. Change is S-L-O-W
Academics at the 800-year-old institution have a
unique role in the running of their university and,
along with owning their own intellectual property
rights, members of the university's Regent House
can lobby for a vote on all amendments and
additions to the university's governing rules.
The ancient system of governance has come under
attack in the past for being too cumbersome, and
ill-designed for the 21st century. The university has
come under pressure from government to reform
its system of governance and intellectual property
rights.
“Dons clash with Cambridge over intellectual rights”, The Guardian, 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/nov/22/highereducation.businessofresearch
36. Esteem economy
• Academia is an unusual economy – no payment for
publishing, instead esteem
• The people and institutions who have succeeded have
done so within the current ‘economy’
• If the way research is rewarded changes, then the winners
might not be winners any more
ChrisPotter/CCBY
37. Resistance
• Generally institutions are reluctant to step up,
partly because of the governance structure. The
nature of research itself is changing profoundly.
This includes extraordinary dependence on data,
and complexity requiring intermediate steps of
data visualisation. These eResearch techniques
have been growing rapidly, and in a way that
may not be understood or well led by senior
administrators.
– “Openness, integrity & supporting researchers”
Emeritus Professor Tom Cochrane
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=307
38. And then there is the administration
You Tube Cambridge in Numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZsb2Ck
MsM
• It is a challenge to convince researchers to do anything.
• “Getting an Octopus into a String Bag”
https://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley/getting-an-octopus-into-a-string-bag-the-
complexity-of-communicating-with-the-research-community-across-a-higher-education-
institution
114 libraries
29 Colleges
Many
administrative units
39. Office of Scholarly Communication
• Managing funder compliance
• Taking the lead in Research Data Management
• Training library community
• Training and collaborating with the research
community
• Strategic goals of the OSC
– http://osc.cam.ac.uk/about-scholarly-
communication/strategic-goals-office-scholarly-
communication
40. We are loud and proud
• "2016 - That was the year that was" -
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1172
• "2015 - That was the year that was" -
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=451
• "Further developing the library profession in 2016" -
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1228
• Slides from a November 2016 talk "The OSC at
Cambridge - a lightning tour” -
http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley/the-osc-at-
cambridge-a-lightning-tour
41. Is it our ‘place’?
http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/keep-
calm-and-know-your-place-3/
42. Yes we should be driving this agenda
• Scholarly Communication takes a ‘meta’ view of the
research ecosystem
• Disciplinary differences mean individual researchers
come to the table with very specific perspectives
• They all think they are right
• Very few understand that things are different in other
disciplines – and that these are as valid as their own
• Scholarly Communication is a research discipline of its
own. This is not recognised by most academics!
43. Let’s wrap this story up
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tadpoles-Promise-Jeanne-Willis/dp/1842704265
We left the story with the
caterpillar crying herself to
sleep in her cocoon
45. We can’t leave it there!!!
• Look, publishers are just doing what all other
big industries are doing.
• Who owns your data?
– Facebook
– Twitter
– Google
– Amazon
• The problem is if tech companies take over
the world it gets built in their reflection.
46. Big brother is watching
Can you remember anyone’s phone number?
48. And to a lesser extent
https://www.academia.edu/
49. Let the games begin
https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-wants-15-million-piracy-damages-from-sci-
hub-and-libgen-170518/
50. Who does this threaten?
John Bohannon, “Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone”, Science, Apr. 28,
2016http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-
everyone
51. What can YOU do?
• MIT Institute-wide task force on the Future of
Libraries
– Be global and local in services
– Skill generation in information assessment
– Dissemination of research generated internally
– Provide comprehensive digital access to
collections
– Generate open content platforms
– Open access policies and infrastructure
– Preservation and stewardship
https://future-of-libraries.mit.edu/sites/default/files/FutureLibraries-PrelimReport-Final.pdf