The document discusses open policies in Europe and their impacts. It summarizes key points from a webinar on the topic, including cascading cancellations of publisher subscriptions, threats to the credibility of science from selective use of evidence, issues with overreliance on metrics, and policy confusion from many new initiatives. It notes fightbacks through reproducibility efforts but also risks like incentivizing risk-averse research. Overall it analyzes challenges to open science from various pressures and proposes moving beyond only counting publications in high-impact journals.
Embedding open in the research training processDanny Kingsley
Abstract: Some institutions offer graduate training that sits alongside the master/apprentice system. But many rely on models such as the Vitae Researcher Development Framework that do not encompass many (or any) open concepts. This means the training of researchers in many of these spaces falls to library staff. From the academic side, grassroots organisations such as AIMOS or ANZORN offer a community for the interested. There are multiple sets of competencies developed for scholarly communication librarians, but these are not represented in any university library course in Australia. So those teaching the research community are relying on gathered skills and working without a standardised set of agreed
learnings for their target community. The result is haphazard and highly reliant on the skills of individuals at specific institutions. We are in need of some robust frameworks and standards. What are the minimum skills and knowledge we would expect of a graduate researcher in Australia when it comes to open? We are not starting from scratch, there are many organisations in Australia that have done work on some aspects of open training or skills. It is time for this to be brought into a cohesive and agreed standard we can all work towards.
This was a lightning talk given online to AIMOS2020 (https://aimos.community/2020-program-schedule)
Let’s just get on with it – ‘open’ in Australia in 2019Danny Kingsley
This talk, given to the CAUL Research Repositories Community Days on 28 October 2019, delves into the current state of openness in Australia. It looks at some of the causes of the lack of progress and provides suggestions for ramping up activity into 2020.
Where to from here? Identifying training and professional development needs o...Danny Kingsley
This is a talk given to the Australian 2021 Research Support Community Day (#RSCDay21).
ABSTRACT: Understanding scholarly communication is becoming increasingly important within research institutions. In response, the number and range of scholarly communication-related roles within academic libraries, and other departments and divisions, have been growing steadily for nearly 20 years. Yet there are very few formal training opportunities for people moving into these roles. This has led to something of a crisis, with a recent paper in the US identifying that “scholarly communications librarians experience impostor phenomenon more frequently and intensely than academic librarians more broadly”.
This talk will describe an Australasian research project building on the US study looking at scholarly communication knowledge and skills. Our study focusses on people who support institutional repository management, publishing services, research practice, copyright services, open access policies and scholarly communication landscape, data management services, and assessment & impact metrics. The findings will help identify future training and workforce development needs.
Hard won: the challenges of obtaining scholarly communication knowledge & skillsDanny Kingsley
This is a talk presented to ALIA HLA Lunchtime Series 2021: 'All things Open' - updates on the current state of Open Scholarship in Australia: Event 1
ABSTRACT: "This talk will consider the challenges associated with identifying and acquiring the skills needed in scholarly communication. It will describe some of the findings from a recent Australasian survey https://cpas.anu.edu.au/research/research-projects/scholarly-communication-knowledge-and-skills-australasian-research considering the educational and training backgrounds of people working in scholarly communication support, and their confidence in a range of specific competencies. The talk will also discuss the need to identify and articulate a curriculum for scholarly communication for the research community and how this will both inform the skill sets needed within academic and other research libraries and assist future workforce planning."
Open Access policies at Australian universitiesDanny Kingsley
This is a talk given at the Research Support Community Day (#RSCDay21) by Danny Kingsley & Simon Wakeling on a research project they are doing with Hamid Jamali, Mary Anne Kennan and Maryam Sarrafzadeh.
ABSTRACT: It has long been recognised that policies and mandates are key drivers of open access (OA) publishing and dissemination. While a great deal of attention has been placed on funder policies, researchers are also often covered by institutional policies or guidelines. This presentation will provide an overview of the state of open access policies at Australian universities. It will report on a research project that is analysing all existing OA policies, or policies that are related to open access (for example dissemination of research output policies) at Australian universities. In addition to reporting whether universities have policies explicitly related to open access, and what those policies require of researchers, the project also explores how universities define OA, and the extent to which their policies represent a form of OA advocacy. The presentation will include highlights from a comparison of university policies for their similarities and differences, a discussion of their key characteristics, and an assessment of the potential future role of such policies in the context of the national and international OA landscape.
Embedding open in the research training processDanny Kingsley
Abstract: Some institutions offer graduate training that sits alongside the master/apprentice system. But many rely on models such as the Vitae Researcher Development Framework that do not encompass many (or any) open concepts. This means the training of researchers in many of these spaces falls to library staff. From the academic side, grassroots organisations such as AIMOS or ANZORN offer a community for the interested. There are multiple sets of competencies developed for scholarly communication librarians, but these are not represented in any university library course in Australia. So those teaching the research community are relying on gathered skills and working without a standardised set of agreed
learnings for their target community. The result is haphazard and highly reliant on the skills of individuals at specific institutions. We are in need of some robust frameworks and standards. What are the minimum skills and knowledge we would expect of a graduate researcher in Australia when it comes to open? We are not starting from scratch, there are many organisations in Australia that have done work on some aspects of open training or skills. It is time for this to be brought into a cohesive and agreed standard we can all work towards.
This was a lightning talk given online to AIMOS2020 (https://aimos.community/2020-program-schedule)
Let’s just get on with it – ‘open’ in Australia in 2019Danny Kingsley
This talk, given to the CAUL Research Repositories Community Days on 28 October 2019, delves into the current state of openness in Australia. It looks at some of the causes of the lack of progress and provides suggestions for ramping up activity into 2020.
Where to from here? Identifying training and professional development needs o...Danny Kingsley
This is a talk given to the Australian 2021 Research Support Community Day (#RSCDay21).
ABSTRACT: Understanding scholarly communication is becoming increasingly important within research institutions. In response, the number and range of scholarly communication-related roles within academic libraries, and other departments and divisions, have been growing steadily for nearly 20 years. Yet there are very few formal training opportunities for people moving into these roles. This has led to something of a crisis, with a recent paper in the US identifying that “scholarly communications librarians experience impostor phenomenon more frequently and intensely than academic librarians more broadly”.
This talk will describe an Australasian research project building on the US study looking at scholarly communication knowledge and skills. Our study focusses on people who support institutional repository management, publishing services, research practice, copyright services, open access policies and scholarly communication landscape, data management services, and assessment & impact metrics. The findings will help identify future training and workforce development needs.
Hard won: the challenges of obtaining scholarly communication knowledge & skillsDanny Kingsley
This is a talk presented to ALIA HLA Lunchtime Series 2021: 'All things Open' - updates on the current state of Open Scholarship in Australia: Event 1
ABSTRACT: "This talk will consider the challenges associated with identifying and acquiring the skills needed in scholarly communication. It will describe some of the findings from a recent Australasian survey https://cpas.anu.edu.au/research/research-projects/scholarly-communication-knowledge-and-skills-australasian-research considering the educational and training backgrounds of people working in scholarly communication support, and their confidence in a range of specific competencies. The talk will also discuss the need to identify and articulate a curriculum for scholarly communication for the research community and how this will both inform the skill sets needed within academic and other research libraries and assist future workforce planning."
Open Access policies at Australian universitiesDanny Kingsley
This is a talk given at the Research Support Community Day (#RSCDay21) by Danny Kingsley & Simon Wakeling on a research project they are doing with Hamid Jamali, Mary Anne Kennan and Maryam Sarrafzadeh.
ABSTRACT: It has long been recognised that policies and mandates are key drivers of open access (OA) publishing and dissemination. While a great deal of attention has been placed on funder policies, researchers are also often covered by institutional policies or guidelines. This presentation will provide an overview of the state of open access policies at Australian universities. It will report on a research project that is analysing all existing OA policies, or policies that are related to open access (for example dissemination of research output policies) at Australian universities. In addition to reporting whether universities have policies explicitly related to open access, and what those policies require of researchers, the project also explores how universities define OA, and the extent to which their policies represent a form of OA advocacy. The presentation will include highlights from a comparison of university policies for their similarities and differences, a discussion of their key characteristics, and an assessment of the potential future role of such policies in the context of the national and international OA landscape.
Shaping Dublin: A Seminar Series on the Contemporary City By the Provisional University
Evidence-free governing is short-sighted, politically expedient and favours PR politics. Even with science, ample knowledge and data, some make ‘prayerfully’ inspired decisions as seen by anti-vaccination parents in the US, while in Ireland being certifiably dead and pregnant may be a life sentence. Moral arguments favour easy fixes such as methadone treatment which are associated with unintended drug overdoses. In cities we marginalize the most vulnerable, such as people who are homeless and use them as scapegoats when really it’s about the political economy of housing. Women’s issues everywhere are generally un-accounted for as seen in the mountain of untested rape kits in the US or the inability to adequately track femicide in the UK. In Canada government ac-count-ability systems such as the census and science libraries are being cut and in Ireland localism vs the public interest or rhetoric vs facts are the norm. This talk will critically discuss open data, big data, open government, evidence-informed public policy, counting the invisible, data-based deliberations, calculated activism, Evidence for Democracy, and imagine what a public interest data-based infrastructure for Dublin would look like.
By:Tracey P. Lauriault, ERC Funded Programmable City Project, NIRSA, NUIM
Location: Dunlop Oriel House, Dublin 2,
Date: 7:30PM 4th March 2015
Hack the Research Process: Social Media Tools and Mobile Apps for Research an...Cheryl Peltier-Davis
The objective of this session was to develop and share a toolkit of social media resources which would enable librarians at academic institutions to assist researchers in conceptualising, conducting and completing research projects.
Library-Faculty-Student Collaboration to Create OERs for TESL
Presented at ARLD Day, Chaska, MN, April 26, 2019
Michael Schwartz, Rachel Wexelbaum, Plamen Miltenoff
Presentation by Martin Etzrodt, Akasha Foundation - Collaborative ResearchDayOne
Tackling the healthcare innovation chasm at its very root is the mission pursued by Martin Etzrodt from Akasha foundation. His big idea is to rethink science by changing the way knowledge is produced, through a decentralized platform incentivising sharing and collaboration.
Keynote presentation to the 16th Health Libraries Inc Conference: "Collections, Technology & the Future: curating for our clients in interesting times" Friday 13th September 2019, Melbourne, Australia.
The talk covers the current political landscape, future publishing, the changing relationship with publishers, future libraries, future workforce needs and future opportunities.
International developments in open access: An overview of trends at the natio...Sarah Shreeves
Presentation on international developments in open access given at the Special Libraries Association Arabian Gulf Chapter 2014 annual conference in Doha, Qatar.
Presented by CLACSO at ACSS-Arab -Council for the Social Sciences. Second Conference, Beirut, Lebanon | March 13-15, 2015
http://www.theacss.org/pages/second-conference
This presentation was given to the CAUL seminar: “Unpacking open access and transformational publisher agreements – exploring a new academic library narrative” on 27 April 2023.
It discusses the history behind Read and Publish deals and the implications they have on an open strategy in Australia.
This is a keynote presentation to "Open science, transparence et evaluation. Perspectives et enjeux pour les chercheurs.' Held at Urfist de Bordeaux, France, 4 April 2017
https://sygefor.reseau-urfist.fr/#!/training/6701/7159/?from=true
ABSTRACT: The way research is disseminated has changed immeasurably since the advent of the internet, yet we still reward researchers in the same way - for publication of novel results in high impact journals. This talk will start with a brief discussion of some of the big challenges the research sector is facing as a result and describe how Open Science can address these. The talk will then focus on the difficulty of introducing and implementing Open Science solutions. Open Science questions the status quo, and potentially threatens the established reputation of both institutions and individuals. It is not an easy concept to implement. While the discipline of Scholarly Communication takes a 'meta' view of the whole research ecosystem, most players in that system are working within a narrow view. It is very rare for individuals to be able to see beyond their own experience. Challenges for people trying to implement Open Science initiatives range from practical issues in implementing change, through to the people skills and negotiations required to convince individuals and institutions that this change is necessary.
How to own your research communications - The importance of identity and owne...Andy Tattersall
This is a talk I delivered at a joint Cilip Special Interest Group event between ARLG and MmIT at The British Library. The purpose of the talk was to discuss the importance of using unique identifiers when communicating your research and how to own your voice and research when working with the media
Shaping Dublin: A Seminar Series on the Contemporary City By the Provisional University
Evidence-free governing is short-sighted, politically expedient and favours PR politics. Even with science, ample knowledge and data, some make ‘prayerfully’ inspired decisions as seen by anti-vaccination parents in the US, while in Ireland being certifiably dead and pregnant may be a life sentence. Moral arguments favour easy fixes such as methadone treatment which are associated with unintended drug overdoses. In cities we marginalize the most vulnerable, such as people who are homeless and use them as scapegoats when really it’s about the political economy of housing. Women’s issues everywhere are generally un-accounted for as seen in the mountain of untested rape kits in the US or the inability to adequately track femicide in the UK. In Canada government ac-count-ability systems such as the census and science libraries are being cut and in Ireland localism vs the public interest or rhetoric vs facts are the norm. This talk will critically discuss open data, big data, open government, evidence-informed public policy, counting the invisible, data-based deliberations, calculated activism, Evidence for Democracy, and imagine what a public interest data-based infrastructure for Dublin would look like.
By:Tracey P. Lauriault, ERC Funded Programmable City Project, NIRSA, NUIM
Location: Dunlop Oriel House, Dublin 2,
Date: 7:30PM 4th March 2015
Hack the Research Process: Social Media Tools and Mobile Apps for Research an...Cheryl Peltier-Davis
The objective of this session was to develop and share a toolkit of social media resources which would enable librarians at academic institutions to assist researchers in conceptualising, conducting and completing research projects.
Library-Faculty-Student Collaboration to Create OERs for TESL
Presented at ARLD Day, Chaska, MN, April 26, 2019
Michael Schwartz, Rachel Wexelbaum, Plamen Miltenoff
Presentation by Martin Etzrodt, Akasha Foundation - Collaborative ResearchDayOne
Tackling the healthcare innovation chasm at its very root is the mission pursued by Martin Etzrodt from Akasha foundation. His big idea is to rethink science by changing the way knowledge is produced, through a decentralized platform incentivising sharing and collaboration.
Keynote presentation to the 16th Health Libraries Inc Conference: "Collections, Technology & the Future: curating for our clients in interesting times" Friday 13th September 2019, Melbourne, Australia.
The talk covers the current political landscape, future publishing, the changing relationship with publishers, future libraries, future workforce needs and future opportunities.
International developments in open access: An overview of trends at the natio...Sarah Shreeves
Presentation on international developments in open access given at the Special Libraries Association Arabian Gulf Chapter 2014 annual conference in Doha, Qatar.
Presented by CLACSO at ACSS-Arab -Council for the Social Sciences. Second Conference, Beirut, Lebanon | March 13-15, 2015
http://www.theacss.org/pages/second-conference
This presentation was given to the CAUL seminar: “Unpacking open access and transformational publisher agreements – exploring a new academic library narrative” on 27 April 2023.
It discusses the history behind Read and Publish deals and the implications they have on an open strategy in Australia.
This is a keynote presentation to "Open science, transparence et evaluation. Perspectives et enjeux pour les chercheurs.' Held at Urfist de Bordeaux, France, 4 April 2017
https://sygefor.reseau-urfist.fr/#!/training/6701/7159/?from=true
ABSTRACT: The way research is disseminated has changed immeasurably since the advent of the internet, yet we still reward researchers in the same way - for publication of novel results in high impact journals. This talk will start with a brief discussion of some of the big challenges the research sector is facing as a result and describe how Open Science can address these. The talk will then focus on the difficulty of introducing and implementing Open Science solutions. Open Science questions the status quo, and potentially threatens the established reputation of both institutions and individuals. It is not an easy concept to implement. While the discipline of Scholarly Communication takes a 'meta' view of the whole research ecosystem, most players in that system are working within a narrow view. It is very rare for individuals to be able to see beyond their own experience. Challenges for people trying to implement Open Science initiatives range from practical issues in implementing change, through to the people skills and negotiations required to convince individuals and institutions that this change is necessary.
How to own your research communications - The importance of identity and owne...Andy Tattersall
This is a talk I delivered at a joint Cilip Special Interest Group event between ARLG and MmIT at The British Library. The purpose of the talk was to discuss the importance of using unique identifiers when communicating your research and how to own your voice and research when working with the media
The changing landscape of scholarly communication: presentation to the NFAIS ...Keith Webster
Presentation on the changing relationships between research libraries, publishers, researchers and technology, and the impact of government policy on scholarly publishing and open access.
South African open access policy - a comparative overview Eve Gray
A paper presented at a Wits University research policy seminar. At the end of the day, the university signed the Berlin Declaration and announced that it would be adopting open access as a core component of its new research strategy.
Ideas that seem obvious today, at one point were obscure facts known only to a select few. The health benefits of washing hands, wearing a seatbelt while in a car - none of these ideas and practices were accepted immediately. In addition to needing time to incubate, new ideas also need to be accessible so that they can be tested, debated, and built upon. This presentation, which is based on my previous research and personal experiences, will highlight the importance and connection between open access publishing and the role of social media in promotion and dissemination of scholarly research.
What works and doesn't work in research disseminationtbirdcymru
Is 'closed' more effective than 'open' in research knowledge creation and dissemination? This paper argues that open is more efficient and effective, and makes better scholarship as well as academic profile for the researcher.
Public engagement while you sleep? How altmetrics can help researchers broade...UoLResearchSupport
Slides from a seminar delivered for pepnet at the University of Leeds 28 Nov 2018. Thanks to Charlotte Perry-Houts for extra content:
From peer reviewed journal articles, to assorted reports and grey literature, to datasets comprising numerical, textual or multimedia files; we generate thousands of research outputs.
In this session, Kirsten Thompson (OD&PL) and Nick Sheppard (Library) will discuss strategies for increasing quality online engagement with that research. We will explore how you can use ‘alternative metrics’, more commonly known as ‘altmetrics’, to monitor such engagement. Altmetrics can help to showcase the reach of your work, supplement grant and tenure applications, identify new audiences, and connect with other researchers in your discipline.
In the age of “fake news”, academics have a responsibility to share their expertise beyond the Ivory Tower. We’ll show you how to ensure all these disparate outputs are properly curated in university repositories with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). There will also be an opportunity to learn about and contribute to the Library led Data Management Engagement Award, a first-ever competition launched to elicit new and imaginative ideas for engaging researchers in the practices of good Research Data Management (RDM).
How altmetrics can help researchers broaden the reach of their work. Workshop facilitated by Kirsten Thompson and Nick Sheppard at the University of Leeds for the #PepnetLeeds network November 28th 2018.
How altmetrics can help researchers broaden the reach of their work
Slides from workshop to pepnet (Public Engagement network) at the University of Leeds on 28th November 2018
Stepping out of the echo chamber - Alternative indicators of scholarly commun...Andy Tattersall
This set of slides which was presented at Sheffield Hallam University and The London School of Hygene and Tropical Medicine. They showcase the many ways academics can leverage digital scholary communication tools to discover what is being said about their research and how best to respond to that conversation.
Open Access & Preprints for Scholars and JournalsAuthorea
How can more scholars and journals embrace preprints to make research freely accessible? Authorea & Scholastica address this question and more in this slideshow, which overviews:
- The history and benefits of preprints
- Recent OA mandates by governments and funding bodies
- Steps scholars and journals can take to support Green OA via preprints
- New OA publishing models journals are pioneering using preprints
Similar to Impacts, consequences and outcomes of open policies in Europe (20)
Artificial Intelligence and implications for research outputsDanny Kingsley
A talk for UKSG online seminar "Publication to press: Building trust in research communication" held on 27 June 2023.
Abstract:
General AI observations:
* AI probably won’t kill us, but there are risks to identity and reputation
* Regulation around AI is starting but the big corporations are trying to control the discourse
Observations about AI and research publishing
* AI can help with the research process – but it's not a replacement for critical thinking
* The current research publishing environment is full of problems both with and without ChatGPT
* AI is a challenge for the open movement & reproducibility and is likely to feed the paper mill tsunami
Posit: AI is currently the whipping boy for our research assessment system
Conclusion: We need to change the research assessment system
This was a keynote talk to the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) QLD 'Reimagine' conference.
https://aliaqld.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/alia-qld-mini-conference-2022-reimagine/
The focus of the talk was on the need for people working in libraries to 'let go' from the minutiae to allow space to focus on the bigger picture.
The macrame of scholarly training - collecting the cords that bind Danny Kingsley
Presentation made to Enabling a Modern Curriculum Conference, 8 September 2022. #EMCconference2022
This talk addresses a significant gap in researcher training. The ‘craft’ of the research process encompasses the skills and knowledge beyond discipline specificity and despite being an essential aspect of research success is not addressed in a systematic and strategic way across the sector. Often the responsibility for this type of training falls on the shoulders of librarians - but who is responsible for training the trainers?
Without an agreed curriculum of what skills and knowledge should be included in this type of researcher training, it is very difficult to develop training programs. And if libraries are at least partly responsible for providing this training, it is difficult to identify the skills to recruit for in our staff.
The number of advertised library positions directly associated with scholarly communication has exponentially increased in the US and UK over the past decade. However, in Australia, until very recently many of these skills were not acknowledged as an essential part of librarianship by ALIA. A recent study of Australasian librarians indicated that scholarly communication skills are primarily obtained through self-directed learning. The oversubscription to the recent OA101 course from OA Australasia speaks to the huge need.
We need to strategically identify what should be teaching our emerging researchers ‘beyond their discipline’. In doing so we can also identify the skills and knowledge our library community should possess to ensure we are able to meet these needs and future-proof the profession.
This issue reaches beyond the library, and is an opportunity to engage with colleagues in the research office and bind the cords of community groups such as AIMOS, ANZORN and OA Australasia. We cannot enable a modern curriculum until we identify one, and this poses an opportunity for libraries to lead our sector towards a more strategic coherent and successful future.
Scholarly communication competencies: An analysis of confidence among Austral...Danny Kingsley
These slides are from a talk given on 19 January 2022 CISC Research Seminar at Charles Sturt University.
The paper to which these slides talk is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.25911/45BB-9Y24
ABSTRACT: This talk will discuss the results from a nationwide survey of the level of confidence that librarians working in scholarly communication in Australia and New Zealand have in their current competencies. The work showed that while respondents were generally confident across seven competency areas (Institutional repository management, Publishing services, Research practice, Copyright services, Open access policies and scholarly communication landscape, Data management services, and Assessment and impact metrics), the majority combined their scholarly communication tasks with other roles. There are challenges across the sector in updating skills and knowledge to keep abreast of current trends and developments were identified. This work has significant implications for improving both the education provision in this area and creating more professional development opportunities.
Leveraging the ETD as a pathway to broader discussions about openness in a un...Danny Kingsley
Workshop held as part of ETD2021 https://conferences.uaeu.ac.ae/etd2021/en/index.shtml on 15 November 2021
This workshop will explore different challenges to making ETDs openly available and how they can be used within an institution to engage with faculty in relation to open research practices. Example considerations include the use of third party copyright, whether a data management plan is required as part of the PhD research process and how the ethical approval process can be a natural point for considering and formalizing research integrity issues. Through these processes, universities have an opportunity to not only ensure the next generation of scholars are working with a high level of research integrity, but also to update the skills and knowledge of those who supervise PhD students.
It’s publishing but not as you know it: How Open is Changing EverythingDanny Kingsley
This is a talk given as part of Open Access Week 2021 (#OAWeek2021) at Flinders University.
Abstract: Despite the seismic shifts of the last couple of decades with the introduction of the internet, scholarly publishing has remained basically unchanged. The Mertonian norms were established in 1942 when science was ‘under attack’, and today science is once more being questioned. It is time to return to our base principles. The open agenda offers a path not only to reproducibility and increased trust in research, but also addresses questions related to research culture, allowing a more diverse and inclusive environment.
These are the slides and discussions from a workshop at UKSG2017.
ABSTRACT: This workshop will explore the skill sets for scholarly communication including questions about future requirements, the language we are using in this space and, beyond skills, what type of people are suited to different aspects of librarianship. Scholarly communication requires people who are able to be flexible in their approach, rather than ‘rule followers’, which may mean a fundamental shift in the library workforce into the future. Working collectively, the session will consider the implications for upskilling our ‘legacy’ workforce.
Note there are accompanying files. The collection of job descriptions is here: https://tinyurl.com/mcoxwab
The analysis is here: https://tinyurl.com/jw33sqw
Developing a research Library position statement on Text and Data Mining in t...Danny Kingsley
These are slides from a workshop held during the RLUK2017 Conference http://rlukconference.com/ presented by Dr Danny Kingsley, Dr Deborah Hansen and Anna Vernon.
The Abstract:
"The library community has been almost silent on the issue of text and data mining (T&DM) partly due to concerns about the risk of having institutions ‘cut off’ from subscriptions due to large downloads of research articles for the purpose of mining. This workshop is an intention to identify where the information rests about T&DM - including looking at the details as they appear in Jisc negotiated licenses - consider some case studies and develop together a set of principles that identify the position of research libraries in the on the issue of T&DM. "
This is a short run through the activities of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of Cambridge presented to the Cambridge University Press Library Board meeting on 28 November 2016.
Reward, reproducibility and recognition in research - the case for going OpenDanny Kingsley
The is a keynote presentation for the Eleventh Annual Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing http://site.uit.no/muninconf/
21 November 2016
The advent of the internet has meant that scholarly communication has changed immeasurably over the past two decades but in some ways it has hardly changed at all. The coin in the realm of any research remains the publication of novel results in a high impact journal – despite known issues with the Journal Impact Factor. This elusive goal has led to many problems in the research process: from hyperauthorship to high levels of retractions, reproducibility problems and 'cherry picking' of results. The veracity of the academic record is increasingly being brought into question. An additional problem is this static reward systems binds us to the current publishing regime, preventing any real progress in terms of widespread open access or even adoption of novel publishing opportunities. But there is a possible solution. Increased calls to open research up and provide a greater level of transparency have started to yield practical real solutions. This talk will cover the problems we currently face and describe some of the innovations that might offer a way forward.
So, what's it all about then? Why we share research dataDanny Kingsley
This is the Keynote talk at a Jisc Research Data Network meeting held at Cambridge University on 6 September 2016. The research data network is designed to be a people network offering participants a place to demonstrate practical research data management implementations and to discuss current issues relating to research data in institutions. This keynote discusses two of the most common excuses for not sharing data and then broadens the discussion out to the need for a move to Open Research of which open data is only a small but essential part.
Stop Press: Libraries' Role in the Future of PublishingDanny Kingsley
This was presented to the SLA2016 conference in Philadelphia on 12 June.
ABSTRACT: Libraries are moving from curators of bought content to providing access to research or industry outputs. This activity can range from the relatively informal process of dissemination through a repository to acting as publishers - through the hosting of research journals, bibliographies and newsletters to the provision of editorial services and advice. This 90 minute Master Class will look at different models of publishing in the library environment with several examples of publishing activity in different libraries. The session will start with a strategic overview of the need for libraries to actively engage in the dissemination of information created by their organisations. The discussion will cover the staffing implications including how to recruit and train for the required skills sets. Attendees will work through some of the issues that need to be considered if a library is interested in publishing, including some of the legal implications and the different software and technical platforms available. Ideas will be workshopped about ways to engage the institutional community and encourage uptake of services on offer. The class aims to provide practical information to allow attendees to make decisions about what services are achievable to offer their clients, both from a technical and a staffing perspective. Attendees who are currently publishing are actively encouraged to participate in the discussion.
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.
Getting an Octopus into a String Bag - The complexity of communicating with t...Danny Kingsley
This is a presentation given to the Researcher to Reader conference held in London 15-16 February 2016 (http://r2rconf.com/)
Abstract: Universities are, by their nature, tribal; but the tribes extend beyond disciplinary boundaries, with different administrative areas having their own behavioural norms. Increased expectations for researchers and their institutions to be accountable for their funding poses huge communication challenges, particularly for large devolved institutions. Many of these tribes are now having to work together in ways that they have not before, creating an unprecedented opportunity.
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.
Watch out, it's behind you: publishers' tactics and the challenge they pose f...Danny Kingsley
This presentation to the libraries@cambridge conference held on the 7th January 2016 describes some of the more surprising activities academic publishers are engaged in and discusses the opportunities and threats these pose for the library community. Prepared and presented by Sally Rumsey Head of Scholarly Communications & RDM, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University and Dr Danny Kingsley Head of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge University Libraries.
Access to Research Data - Westminster BriefingDanny Kingsley
Advocating good research data management goes beyond simply informing researchers about policy requirements and includes integrated and sophisticated communication. This talk outlines how Cambridge University has met this challenge.
The purpose, practicalities, pitfalls and policies of managing and sharing da...Danny Kingsley
Talk to the Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group conference - Measurement, Information and Innovation: Digital Disruption in the Chemical Sciences. Tuesday 20th October 2015, RSC, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
What is ‘research impact’ in an interconnected world?Danny Kingsley
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Impacts, consequences and outcomes of open policies in Europe
1. Impacts, consequences and outcomes
of open polices in Europe
Webinar for AOASG
30 May 2019
Dr Danny Kingsley
Scholarly Communication Consultant
@dannykay68
2. Five things to discuss today
• Cascading cancellations
• Credibility crunch-point
• Metric management
• Policy pandemonium
• Being blindsided
4. Considerable activity in past year
Country/organisati
on
Publisher activity Date Links
Norway Cancelled Elsevier
subscription
March 2019 https://www.editage.com/insights/norway-joins-the-ranks-of-
germany-and-sweden-cancels-subscription-with-elsevier
University of
California
Cancelled Elsevier
subscription
February 2019 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00758-x
Hungarian
Consortium EINZ
Did not renew
Elsevier subscription
December
2018
http://eisz.mtak.hu/index.php/en/283-hungarian-consortium-
terminates-negotiations-with-elsevier.html
Bibsam
Consortium -
Sweden
Cancelled
agreement with
Elsevier
16 May 2018 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05191-0
French national
consortium Coupe
rin.org
Cancelled
subscriptions to
SpringerNature
30 March 2018 http://couperin.org/breves/1333-couperin-ne-renouvelle-pas-l-
accord-national-passe-avec-springer
Dutch consortium
VSNU
No agreement with
Royal Society of
Chemistry
12 March 2018 https://www.vsnu.nl/en_GB/news-items/nieuwsbericht/394-no-
agreement-with-the-royal-society-of-chemistry-
publishing%C2%A0.html
SPARC maintains a Big Deal Cancellation Tracking list -
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-cancellation-tracking/
5. Outcomes
• Feb 2018 - Germany estimated to be saving £8.7million per
year
– https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/will-other-
countries-follow-germany-battle-elsevier
• July 2018 - Elsevier cut off access to Sweden and Germany
– https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05754-1
• Feb 2019 - “Thousands of scientists run up against
Elsevier’s paywall”
– https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00492-4
– Researchers: some articles are impossible to get, causes
“unnecessary delays” to work, “This is damaging to research,
and punishes researchers, not publishers.”
– Libraries: most of these article requests are fulfilled within a
working day, suspects that scientists are turning to other articles
or journals
7. Different models
• Norway and Elsevier meet a nine million Euro agreement including a Gold Open
Access clause (including a three percent price increase):
https://www.scidecode.com/2019/04/norway-and-elsevier-meet-a-nine-million-
euro-agreement-including-a-gold-open-access-clause/
• In France the Couperin Consortium reached a price reduction of more than 13%
over four years in an agreement with Elsevier - without Gold Open Access but with
built-in Green OA.
https://www.scidecode.com/2019/04/does-the-french-couperin-consortium-beat-
the-german-wiley-deal/
• University of California’s CUP agreement means the subscription "reading" fee will
go down as UC's OA publishing goes up, the university will see no "significant"
overall increase to the cost of its contract. https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-
enews-443/cup-uc-publishing-deal
• The German annual fee will be based on the number of papers they publish in
Wiley journals which should roughly equal what these institutes had previously
been paying Wiley https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/groundbreaking-
deal-makes-large-number-german-studies-free-public
8. Implications
• Do you know what your institution (university,
funder etc) is spending on OA? (even in the UK
where block grants are centrally managed, there
is still huge additional APC spend)
• Do you have any idea how many of your
institution’s publications with a specific publisher
are OA? In gold OA journals vs hybrid?
• Why isn’t ‘institutional contribution’ part of the
discussion? Authoring, peer review and editing
are all un-quantified gifts from the academy –
and should be counted in these negotiations
9. Credibility crunch-point
This is our new reality
https://thenorwichradical.com/2017/01/12/post-truth-
politics-and-the-war-on-intellect/
10. During the pre-Brexit vote discussion
https://www.ft.com/content/3be49734-29cb-11e6-83e4-abc22d5d108c
11. Who is the expert?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html
“Scott Pruitt, the administrator
of the Environmental Protection
Agency, has announced that he
alone will decide what is and
isn’t acceptable science for the
agency to use when developing
policies that affect your health
and the environment.”
Mr Pruitt is a lawyer. He resigned
in July 2018.
His replacement, Andrew
Wheeler, is a former coal
lobbyist.
13. The credibility of science is under
threat
• “Speaking as a scientist, cherrypicking
evidence is unacceptable,” Hawking said.
“When public figures abuse scientific
argument, citing some studies but suppressing
others, to justify policies that they want to
implement for other reasons, it debases
scientific culture.”
• https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/i-would-not-have-survived-
nhs-enabled-stephen-hawking-to-live-long-life
14. We have to be above criticism
• “Incipient and actual attacks upon the integrity of
science have led scientists to recognize their
dependence on particular types of social structure.
Manifestos and pronouncements by associations of
scientists are devoted to the relations of science and
society. An institution under attack must re-examine its
foundations, restate its objectives, seek out its
rationale. Crisis invites self-appraisal. Now that they
have been confronted with challenges to their way of
life, scientists have been jarred into a state of acute
self-consciousness: consciousness of self as an integral
element of society with corresponding obligations and
interests.”
16. Normative Structure of Science
Robert K Merton, “The Normative Structure of Science”, 1942 essay in
The Sociology of Science edited by Norman W Storer, published 1973
http://www.collier.sts.vt.edu/5424/pdfs/merton_1973.pdf
17. These are eroding
• The four Mertonian norms of science (1942)
– universalism: scientific validity is independent of the
sociopolitical status/personal attributes of its participants
– communalism: all scientists should have common
ownership of scientific goods (intellectual property), to
promote collective collaboration; secrecy is the opposite of
this norm.
– disinterestedness: scientific institutions act for the benefit
of a common scientific enterprise, rather than for the
personal gain of individuals within them
– organized scepticism: scientific claims should be exposed
to critical scrutiny before being accepted: both in
methodology and institutional codes of conduct.
22. Implications
• The reproducibility/integrity/replicability agenda
is a positive one
• It identifies causes of problems (hint – the
academic reward structure)
• It identifies potential solutions (study
registration, CredIT taxonomy etc). Many of these
relate to the Open Research agenda
• It owns the issues – that’s the strongest place to
be
• But why is this happening?
24. One of eight priorities for EC
https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscienc
e/pdf/integrated_advice_opspp_recomme
ndations.pdf#view=fit&pagemode=none
25. All over the UK and Europe
https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/research/managingyourpublicat
ions/publicationsandresearchreputation/indicators/responsibleme
trics/
https://www.cwts.nl/research/research-
themes/responsible-metrics
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/environment
/responsible-metrics/
26. Note these are mostly library webpages
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/library/research/openr
esearch/understandingmetrics/responsible_use
_of_metrics.htm
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/support/publishing/r
esponsible-use-of-metrics/
https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/evalu
ate/responsiblemetrics/
27. DORA is now *linked* to funding
https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/wellcome-updating-its-open-access-policy
28. Australian signatories to DORA
https://sfdora.org/signers/
But surely all
institutions have to do
is ‘sign up’?
It doesn’t mean
anything has to change
- does it?
29. Incentives for publication are not in
themselves problematical
https://www.notredame.edu.au/research/research-at-notre-
dame/research-development/publication/publication-incentive
https://informatics.sydney.edu.au/news/sihincentive/
30. However… not all incentive schemes are equal
“The University will also continue to
provide financial incentives for
publications in the prestige journals
Nature and Science which contribute
significantly to the University’s
performance in international ranking
schemes. Consideration will be given to
expanding this scheme where it can be
demonstrated that such publication
measurably enhances the University’s
ranking or reputation.”
https://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/00
34/169873/research-and-innovation-plan.pdf
UNSW is also offering cash incentives. A lead
UNSW author will get $500 for published
papers that appear in selected prestige
publications. There is $1000 for each paper
identified in the Times Higher and QS five-year
windows as a “highly cited paper” appearing in
the Web of Science. UNSW corresponding
authors of articles published in
Nature and Science will receive $10 000 from
the university, with “sliding amounts” for other
authors.
https://campusmorningmail.com.au/
news/unsw-pays-for-performance/
31. Why this matters: Risk averse research
• Scientists we interview routinely
say that they dare not propose
bold projects for funding in part
because of expectations that they
will produce a steady stream of
papers in journals with high impact
scores.
• Our analysis of 15 years' worth of
citation data suggests that
common bibliometric measures
relying on short-term windows
undervalue risky research
– Reviewers are blinkered by
bibliometrics : Nature News &
Comment. 26 April 2017
– http://www.nature.com/news/reviewe
rs-are-blinkered-by-bibliometrics-
1.21877
• Research today is driven by last
year’s publications.
• Scientists write to influence
reviewers and editors in the
process. … They use strategic
citation practices.
• The greater the novelty of the
work the greater likelihood it is to
have a negative review …
Scientists understand the novelty
bias so they downplay the new
elements to the old elements.
– Professor James Evans, 2015
Researcher to Reader conference
– https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.ca
m.ac.uk/?p=539
32. Why this matters: Attrition crisis?
Hard work, little reward: Nature readers reveal working hours and research challenges,
Nature News, 4 November 2016, http://www.nature.com/news/hard-work-little-
reward-nature-readers-reveal-working-hours-and-research-challenges-1.20933
33. Implications
• Increased focus on metrics perverts goals of
research institutions and researchers
• It has gone too far, to the detriment of
research itself and those who are doing the
research
• We need to move away from ‘publication of
novel results in high impact journals’ as being
the only thing that counts.
• Have I mentioned Open Research yet?
34. Policy pandemonium
From Bill Hubbard Getting the rights right: when policies collide
http://www.slideshare.net/UKSG/hubbard-uksg-may2015-public
35. It begins
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
1st online
journals
arXiv started
Los Alamos Subversive
Proposal
Stevan
Harnad
1st Big Deal
WWW begins
Commercial
restrictions
lifted on
WWW
36. The noughties
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
DSpace
MIP & HP Labs
ePrints project
Instigated by
Stevan Harnad
Systemic
Infrastructure
initiative
Australia
1st Open
Repositories
Sydney
1st OA Policy
QUT Costs & Business
Model Report
Wellcome Trust
Sci Publishing -
Free for all?
UK Parliament
Position statement
on OA
RCUK
OA Policy
Wellcome Trust
OA Policy
NIH (replacing
voluntary 2005 one)
1st Repository
Fringe
Edinburgh
ResearchGate
May 2008
Mendeley
August 2008
Academia.edu
September 2008
BASE starts
Economic Analysis
Report
Wellcome Trust
37. The teens
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
RCUK Policy starts
1 April 2013
Google Scholar
citations
November 2011
Strengthen policy
Wellcome Trust
Finch Report
July 2012
UK Govt invests
£10mil
Sept 2012
CHORUS
Publisher-led
initiative
SHARE
University-led
initiative
SciHub start
Elsevier wins court
case
Against SciHub
HEFCE REF policy
starts
1 April 2016
Original end
RCUK policy
31 March
2018 (now
Coalition for
responsible sharing
vs ResearchGate
CORE starts
AOASG starts
Plan S
4 Sept 2018
EPSRC Start
checking data
sharing
May 2015
Birth of UKRI
1 April 2018
Plan S
feedback
8 Feb 2019
Wellcome Policy
5 Nov20182014 REF
38. Open Science Monitor - European Commission. 28 March 2017
http://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=home§ion=monitor
Meanwhile the focus has moved on
39. Statements on Open Research
https://www.cam.ac.uk/6000thThesis
https://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-research/open-research-position-
statement
https://www.reading.ac.uk/research/research-
environment/open-research.aspx
40. What do we mean??
Statement/declaration Year link
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment 2012 http://www.ascb.org/dora/
Force11 Joint Declaration on Data Citation Principles 2014 https://www.force11.org/datacitation
FAIR data principles 2015 https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples
Science International - (draft) Accord on Open Data 2015
http://www.icsu.org/news-centre/news/science-international-to-
agree-international-accord-on-open-data
Leiden Manifesto for research metrics 2015
http://www.nature.com/news/bibliometrics-the-leiden-manifesto-
for-research-metrics-1.17351
Science Europe Principles on Open Access publisher
services
2015
http://www.scienceeurope.org/uploads/PressReleases/270415_O
pen_Access_New_Principles.pdf
European open science cloud for research - position
paper
2015
http://libereurope.eu/wp-
content/uploads/2015/11/OSC_Position_Paper-final-30.10.15.pdf
The Hague declaration on Knowledge Creation in the
Digital Age
2015 http://thehaguedeclaration.com/
Principles of the Scholarly Commons 2017 https://www.force11.org/scholarly-commons/principles
> 90 declarations and position statements from around the world
http://tinyurl.com/scholcomm-charters
There are so many different definitions of Open Research/Science
that now there is an attempt to define the definitions
https://im2punt0.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/defining-open-
science-definitions/
41. Oh yes, that Plan S thing
• Plan S announced – 4 Sept 2018
• Implementation guidelines released – 28 Nov 2018
• Feedback responses due - 8 Feb 2019 (over 600 responses from 40 countries)
• Robert-Jan Smits departs as European Commission’s special envoy for OA – 28 Feb 2019
• Robert Kiley (Wellcome Trust) starts as interim cOAlition S coordinator – Mar 2019
• Nominal ‘start date’ of Plan S – 1 Jan 2020
https://www.scienceeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cOAlitionS.pdf
42. Plan S – much discussion
https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2433
67 items to 1 April 2019 and 51 in 2018 - and these
are the ones I found. There are many others.
43. Mixed response from researchers
https://forbetterscience.com/2018/09/11/response-to-plan-
s-from-academic-researchers-unethical-too-risky/
http://eurodoc.net/joint-statement-plan-s.pdf
44. Feedback was consistent
• Theme 1: Clear support for the transition to open access and the
goals of Plan S.
• Theme 2: Concern that the implementation guidance reflects
models that work for STEM but will negatively impact HSS scholars.
• Theme 3: The technical requirements for publication, repository,
and other platforms are poorly thought out.
• Theme 4: The predicted effects on small, independent, and society
publishers raise concerns for the viability of these publishers.
• Theme 5: Setting a fair and reasonable APC sounds fair and
reasonable but it is also likely impossible.
• Theme 6: Scholars and organizations in the Global South object to
being told what they want.
• Theme 7: The timelines are not feasible.
Taking Stock of the Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance (published 11 Feb)
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/02/11/with-thousand-of-pages-of-feedback-
on-the-plans-s-implementation-guidance-what-themes-emerged-that-might-guide-next-
steps/?informz=1
45. Outcome - embargo breakthrough
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/meet-plan-s-open-access-mandate-journals-
mull-setting-papers-free-publication
NOTE: If you care about this at all, there is an explanation of why there is NO (nothing
whatsover) evidence to support the argument that without embargoes libraries will
cancel subscriptions here: “Half life is half the story” https://unlockingresearch-
blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=331
46. One policy so far - Wellcome Trust
Any paper resulting from
work funded by Wellcome
Trust submitted for
publication after 1 Jan 2020
must be compliant (fully
gold, or in transformative
journal) and in PubMed
Central under a CC-BY
license
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/win-open-
access-two-major-funders-wont-cover-publishing-
hybrid-journals
Useful information here: “Advice for Oxford
authors on the new Wellcome Trust OA
policy”
http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/2019/04/11/ad
vice-for-oxford-authors-on-new-wellcome-
trust-open-access-policy/
47. UK policy landscape is even more
complicated now
http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/2019/05/16/open-access-policy-timeline-may-2019/
49. Implications
• The policy landscape is fast moving and
confusing across the world
• Australia is not immune
• Plan S has ‘focused the minds’ of some in this
ecosystem
• We need to broaden our focus and language
to include Open Research / Scholarship /
Science
50. Being blindsided
Vertical integration resulting from Elsevier’s acquisitions, from Alejandro Posada and George Chen, (2017)
Rent Seeking and Financialization strategies of the Academic Publishing Industry - Publishers are
increasingly in control of scholarly infrastructure and why we should care- A Case Study of Elsevier
http://knowledgegap.org/index.php/sub-projects/rent-seeking-and-financialization-of-the-academic-
publishing-industry/preliminary-findings/
51. Note how it is pitched
https://www.coimbra-group.eu/wp-content/uploads/Burgelman2018-OS-COIMBRA-
december.pdf
52. Elsevier – ‘not a commercial product’*
https://datasearch.elsevier.com/faq#/ * ‘At the moment’
53. Elsevier is not alone
https://www.digital-science.com/researchers/
54. Why use your institutional services?
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/me
ndeley-data-platform/for-institutions
https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/res
earch-data-policy/ - £265 per dataset
55. Who needs an Office of Research, a
Library or Student Services?
https://researcheracademy.elsevier.
com/
https://edservices.wiley.com/why-
partner/services-and-solutions/
56. Implications
• Publishers are muscling in (and they are better
resourced than libraries… actually they are
resourced *by* libraries)
• We need a global view of the infrastructure
landscape across whole institutions
• There is a big risk that all the research outputs
OTHER than the final published paper end up
behind a paywall
• Did I mention Open Research?
57. Summary & Suggestions
• Cascading cancellations
– We need much better data
• Credibility crunch-point
– Take the front foot in this area
• Metric management
– The rules determine behaviour. Question the rules.
• Policy pandemonium
– Open access is the end point, but the journey needs to be
open too
• Being blindsided
– Take a global view. Oh, and get procurement involved
58. Thanks and questions
Dr Danny Kingsley
Scholarly Communication Consultant
Email: danny@dannykingsley.com
Twitter: @dannykay68
Editor's Notes
When researchers were asked how the challenges in research have influenced their careers, 65% said they had considered quitting research, and 15% that they had actually quit. Around one-third felt that they had been judged solely on the number of papers they had published, and another one-third said that they had published a paper they were not proud of. And 16% said they had cut corners in research. (Readers could choose more than one answer.)
When asked to choose the biggest challenge facing early-career scientists, 44% of some 12,000 respondents overwhelmingly picked ‘the fight for funding’. This result aligns closely with the answers of the 3,000-plus people who responded to Nature’s 2016 salary survey, just under half of whom ranked ‘competition for funding’ as the biggest challenge to their career progression.
The next biggest challenges identified in the reader poll, ‘lack of work–life balance’ and ‘progression judged too heavily on publication record’ received just under one-fifth of the total vote each.