How can UK academic libraries respond to the current issues in scholarly publishing and collection development
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Trends in publishing and collections development, and some opportunities for UK academic libraries to transform services to meet institutional and user requirements in a fast changing environment.
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- 1. How can libraries respond to the current issues in scholarly publishing and collection development Stuart Dempster stuartsw4@gmail.com January 2018
- 2. Today’s outcomes • Understanding the changes to scholarly publishing and collections development • How should libraries respond to the current issues Puglia, Italy, 2017.
- 3. Understanding the changes to scholarly publishing and collections development…
- 4. Scholarly Publishing: So what’s the problem? ‘The scholarly communication and research evaluation landscape is locked into historical paradigms which inadequately reflect the opportunities of the digital era. Why hasn’t the Internet disrupted the practices and the economics of scholarly publishing?’ Colin Steele, Emeritus Fellow, Australian National University http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/images/f/f4/2014-steele- scholary-comm.pdf
- 5. Scholarly Publishing: Open Access Publishing, so what’s the problem? Whereas the UK path had been to lead through a partnership between funders and publishers, this partnership was not delivering a transition to open access publishing, and there are doubts that all publishers are still on board as partners. Unless measurable success becomes evident soon, the public funders would need to re-consider their policy and approach to open access publishing. David Sweeney, Executive Chair Designate, Research England. Jan 2018. https://www.researchinformation.info/news /analysis-opinion/ape-2018-conference- report
- 6. Scholarly Publishing: Piracy. Sci-Hub gets sued and blocked American Chemical Society and Elsevier win lawsuits against Sci- Hub, with $15m and $4.8m damages awarded respectively. ACS wins unprecedented injunction to demand ISPs , domain registries and search engines censor it.
- 7. Scholarly Publishing: Universities boycott Elsevier…Editorial board walkouts • Around 200 German universities and research institutions (Deal Project) boycott Elsevier, demanding access to about 2,500 journals at roughly half the price that individual libraries have paid previously. • Academics resign from editorial boards (Elsevier, Scientific Reports, Int. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00093- 7
- 8. Scholarly Publishing: The rise of preprint... • Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and National Institutes of Health (NIH) welcome preprints in grant applications. • New preprint servers emerge, including EarthArXiv, PaleorXiv, NutriXIv, MedArXiv (Yale) and Earth and Space open Archive (ESSOAr). http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/the_orb/?p=1172
- 9. Scholarly Publishing: ‘Disruptive’ Innovation • Lock-in models for end-to-end researcher workflow and research life-cycle management (Digital Science and Elsevier) • Service inter-dependency, such as RIM and citation databases (Web of Science and Scopus, Converis and Pure). • Lock-in models for data portability and reuse (FigShare, Mendeley and Overleaf) https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/01/02/workflow- lock-taxonomy/
- 10. Scholarly Publishing: Open Access Adoption and Affordability • Adoption rates have increased. More UK authors allow immediate OA 37% verses overseas 25%. After a year, the proportion in OA form was UK 54% verses and 32% overseas. • Affordability, costs of OA and subscriptions exceed inflation (+11% pa) from 2013-16 from sample. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/01/22/adop tion-of-open-access-is-rising-but-so-too-are-its-costs/
- 11. Collections Development Trends: ‘Big Deal Cancellations’…and live to tell the tale • 24 Canadian/US libraries cancel ‘Big Deal’ packages, from 46 publishers. • 2 more are negotiating cancellations. • No outcry from students or faculty, leading to questions over publisher supplied usage data. • ‘On-demand’ article supply services have low take-up. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/05/01/wolf- finally-arrives-big-deal-cancelations-north-american- libraries/
- 12. Collections Development Trends: User-centric Discovery Principles • Access and identity management, UX, UI and ‘black-box’ indexing and algorithms stumbling blocks. • Creation of a taxonomy and principles create common understanding for the discovery environment(s) and decision- making processes. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/01/08/discover y-delivery-user-centric-principles-discovery-service/
- 13. Collections Development Trends: Print Book Usage Falls Faster in US Research Libraries • Steep decline in the use of print collections result in budget and space reviews at ARL libraries. • Circulations per student since 1995 down from 25 to 7, a 72% decrease. • Sconul UK statistical data similar, with some variation. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/08/21 /less-meets-eye-print-book-use-falling-faster- research-libraries/
- 14. Collections Development Trends: Current and looming technologies • Extended Reality, combines Augmented and Virtual Reality (Alexa/Siri automated services e.g. suggest-a-book, subs query, renewals etc. • ‘On-demand’ acquisitions • VR studio e.g. surgical simulations and Digital Research Centres • Blockchain, Linked Data, AI and Machine Learning… https://hsl.uw.edu/vr-studio/ http://www.ala.org/tools/future/trends/blockchain
- 15. Collection Development Trends: Skills and Talent • To meet changing requirements libraries are increasing using techniques to nurture talent such as: • Data and library carpentry • Operational Excellence • UX http://librarycarpentry.github.io/about/ http://uxlib.org
- 16. Collections Development Trends… • Emphasis shift from collecting to connecting • Move from pre-selected to demand-driven • Shift from print to electronic • End of the ‘Big Deal’ • Analytics and decision-ready data • Focus on the student experience (TEF) and research impact (REF)
- 17. How should libraries respond… Print Local Licensed Collections General Provider Selector Digital Shared Open Workflows Distinctive Enabler Partner Credit: Roger Schonfeld
- 18. Libraries should respond…Improve ‘digital’ discovery • Encourage LMS vendor search algorithms and indexing improvements • Build unified discovery layer/navigation • Optimise scholarly outputs, using persistent identifiers (ORCHID, DOIs…) • Collaborate with ‘disruptive’ innovators • Innovate with AI/Machine Learning/Linked Data https://www.wur.nl/en/newsarticle/Open-Access-deals- added-to-Journal-browser.htm https://library.soas.ac.uk/Search/Results?lookfor=nepal&t ype=AllFields&filter%5B%5D=*%3A*&limit=20&sort=rele vance
- 19. Libraries should respond…Develop digital content opportunities • Jisc ezMesure (EzPaarse subs management ‘dashboard’) • Jisc National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (226 partners) • Jisc e-textbook Licensing (pilot) • Jisc Transnational Education Licensing (pilot) https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/national- bibliographic-knowledgebase
- 20. Libraries should respond…Enhance shared services • Improve collection management (UKRR Monographs, regional consortia…) • Share licensed assets (CLA Digital Copyright Store…) • Explore effective management of scholarly outputs ( British Library Partner Repository, UCL ‘Megajournal’ Platform…) https://www.cla.co.uk/our-services https://lmlag.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/mlag-workshop- dec-2017-british-library-repository-devs.pdf
- 21. Libraries should respond…Make it open • Advocate and engage academics and senior management (DORA, FAIR, UK Scholarly Communications License, REF Green/Gold OA…) • Provide effective RDM/Scholarly Communications services (DOI, Orchid, Figshare…) • Support changing funder(s)/publisher OA compliance (Deposit Data, Pre-prints…) • Steer enhancements towards an ‘enterprise repository’ • Develop OA e-Textbooks collectively http://ukscl.ac.uk
- 22. Libraries should respond….Optimise workflows • Simply research workflow (upload, manage, share, publish data and scholarly outputs with a DOI, ORCHID and ‘open’ license) • Streamline reading lists (upload, manage, publish, ordering, systems interoperability) • Process map and streamline ‘customer facing’ services (renewals, suggest an asset, document delivery, reservations…)
- 23. Libraries should respond…Provide distinctive offers • Enhance access to unique Special Collections in partnership, using external funding. • Promote collections, products and services to underserved audiences (alumni, public…) • Empower innovation and experimentation teamwork to improve the UX/UI. https://www.clir.org/2018/01/clir-announces-2017- digitizing-hidden-special-collections-archives-awards/ https://alumni.cranfield.ac.uk/Public/Alumni_Library_Onli ne.aspx
- 24. Libraries should respond…enabling • Enhancements in the discovery, access and use of all relevant content. • Pivot to digital, ‘on-demand’, open data and OA scholarly outputs. • Focus on student success (TEF) and research impact (REF) through the provision of products and services.
- 25. Libraries should respond…Partner • Consortia purchasing (Jisc, SUPC, NAG…) reduce costs/improve T&C • Mission Groups (RLUK, Sconul, Liber…) to effect network change (open access, data, science) • Students and faculty to effect local change (as above) • Other institutions to support shared services, UX, OA e-textbooks,…
- 26. The future of academic libraries: Strategic Alignment • ‘Mapping the Future of Academic Libraries : A report for Sconul’ (Padfield, Cox & Rutter) : November 2017 https://sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/SCONUL%20Report%20M apping%20the%20Future%20of%20Academic%20Libraries.pdf • MIT ‘Ad Hoc Task Force on the Future of Libraries’ (A set of 10 recommendations) : October 2016 https://future-of-libraries.mit.edu • University of Manchester ‘Library Strategy’ (3 Goals and Enabling Strategies) : October 2017 http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/about/library-strategy/ • And, of course, link it to your Strategy and Operational Plans!
- 27. Thank you for listening… Stuart Dempster E: stuartsw4@gmail.com January 2018 Presentation will be available on Slideshare later today
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