This document summarizes the key findings of a survey conducted by EBSCO about the future of the academic information supply chain. Over 100 librarians, publishers, agents, and other opinion leaders were surveyed. Their responses suggested that over the next 3-5 years: pressure on budgets will remain significant; the role of libraries will shift towards support services like research output management and information literacy; and open access will continue growing in importance and impact how content is accessed and purchased. Subscription and pricing models may also evolve in response to these changes in the industry.
The future-of-the-academic-information-supply-chain-oct2012Julien Houssiere
The papers cover diverse subjects and reveal some surprising insights into possible future roles for the library and others in the supply chain. Experts share opinions on new and emerging technologies, changing research practices, trends in user behaviour/expectations and views on a variety of access and business models. Unsurprisingly, budgetary pressures have a significant impact across all areas of the supply chain, but some experts feel this can be used to drive innovation. Other future forces for change include mobile technology and the importance of China, India and other emerging economies in shaping publishers’ activities. Papers are available at http://www.ebsco.com/whitepapers
Slides for a talk on "The Agile University" presented by Niall Lavery and Dan Babington, PwC at the IWMW 2015 event held at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk on 27-29 July 2015.
See http://iwmw.org/iwmw2015/talks/beyond-digital-the-agile-university/
The future-of-the-academic-information-supply-chain-oct2012Julien Houssiere
The papers cover diverse subjects and reveal some surprising insights into possible future roles for the library and others in the supply chain. Experts share opinions on new and emerging technologies, changing research practices, trends in user behaviour/expectations and views on a variety of access and business models. Unsurprisingly, budgetary pressures have a significant impact across all areas of the supply chain, but some experts feel this can be used to drive innovation. Other future forces for change include mobile technology and the importance of China, India and other emerging economies in shaping publishers’ activities. Papers are available at http://www.ebsco.com/whitepapers
Slides for a talk on "The Agile University" presented by Niall Lavery and Dan Babington, PwC at the IWMW 2015 event held at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk on 27-29 July 2015.
See http://iwmw.org/iwmw2015/talks/beyond-digital-the-agile-university/
Cairneagle Education Insight - 7 Major Shifts for UK Education - June 2013Ian Koxvold
Our assessment of the seven major factors driving large changes in education practises: student devices, digital content, blended learning, realtime student-level assessment, "big data" analysis, interfunctional school systems and a tougher sell to schools.
Involving Digital Parents in Digital Learning - Event 3 in a 4-part seriesSchoolwires, Inc.
The New Digital Parents have high expectations when it comes to using technology to support their child’s learning experience — both in and out of school. From mobile devices to online learning, digital parents advocate for effective use of a wide range of technologies to personalize learning. Discover how digital tools can drive parental support, how to involve parents and inform them about what’s happening in the classroom, and how other K-12 school districts are using technology to drive parental involvement.
A data-rich dive into the state of education technology from the leading and most active edtech fund. We focus here on school-based education technology with case studies of emerging frontier tech.
Exploiting ICT to improve parental engagement, moving towards online reportingNaace Naace
Exploiting ICT to improve parental engagement, moving towards online reporting - Mike Briscoe, Director Institutions, Leadership and Safeguarding, Becta
Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update Data and DiscussionBlackboard
Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update, examines the growing student interest in online learning and how schools are meeting that demand. This report, which is the third in a series of reports published by Project Tomorrow®, a national education nonprofit organization, in collaboration with Blackboard, examines the Speak Up 2008 survey data collected online in Fall 2008 from more than 335,000 K-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents from across the nation.
Through this report you will gain insight, from schools and districts across the nation, about why students and teachers want access to classes online, the current challenges faced by districts with online learning implementations, and how online learning presents unprecedented opportunities for meeting the needs of our 21st century learner.
More at www.blackboard.com/k12/education21c
Successful schools in testing times: Insights from PISA 2018 Volume VEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents the latest findings from the most recent cycle of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
The PISA 2018 Results Volume V report focuses on issues relating to school organisation and the policies and practices that define how education systems work and change over time. The report also covers: school governance, selecting and grouping students, and the human, financial, educational and time resources allocated to teaching and learning. Results from PISA indicate the quality and equity of learning outcomes attained around the world, and allow educators and policy makers to learn from the policies and practices applied in other countries.
Educational Technology is becoming increasingly important in the higher education sector as innovative educators are using technology to improve pedagogy and student learning. This is not limited to academic institutions as corporate trainers also seek to leverage their people development resources to improve the operating performance of their organizations.
As a result the field of EdTech has been growing rapidly over the past decade as entrepreneurs see the opportunities to use technology to improve the speed and depth of learning. The drive ultimately stems from the transition to a knowledge economy where information is the vital fuel and improved learning can provide breakthrough insights that have substantial public or private value.
This presentation will look at the trends impacting and being impacted by EdTech, student and faculty perceptions, economics, adoption success, factors, investment patterns and the major technologies that are being used in higher educational institutions.
ReimaginED: The Future of K12 EducationDavid Havens
See the original post (with links!) at: http://www.newschools.org/blog/reimagined
Questions? Tweet me @eduhavens
NewSchools Venture Fund presents ReimaginED, a 50 slide overview of the present and future of education.
From TED talk playlists to government speeches, everyone agrees: education is changing. Exactly how, why, or what it all means is still up for debate. Are the low United States PISA scores a sign of stagnation or creativity? Does technology replace or enhance face to face interaction? Are we trying to teach skills, concepts, or learning mindsets?
At NewSchools, we’d like to set the stage differently, in the context of the ground up innovation already happening. While some see the systemic challenges facing us as signs of a depressed age or solemn future, we see it as a call to action. The time is now to re-imagine our education system, and the landscape that’s developed over the last several years offers fertile ground for new approaches.
Just what are the challenges facing our nation, and what are problem solvers doing to keep training the next generation to be the best and brightest? Find out in Re-imagined, a 50 slide overview of the present and future of education.
Cairneagle Education Insight - 7 Major Shifts for UK Education - June 2013Ian Koxvold
Our assessment of the seven major factors driving large changes in education practises: student devices, digital content, blended learning, realtime student-level assessment, "big data" analysis, interfunctional school systems and a tougher sell to schools.
Involving Digital Parents in Digital Learning - Event 3 in a 4-part seriesSchoolwires, Inc.
The New Digital Parents have high expectations when it comes to using technology to support their child’s learning experience — both in and out of school. From mobile devices to online learning, digital parents advocate for effective use of a wide range of technologies to personalize learning. Discover how digital tools can drive parental support, how to involve parents and inform them about what’s happening in the classroom, and how other K-12 school districts are using technology to drive parental involvement.
A data-rich dive into the state of education technology from the leading and most active edtech fund. We focus here on school-based education technology with case studies of emerging frontier tech.
Exploiting ICT to improve parental engagement, moving towards online reportingNaace Naace
Exploiting ICT to improve parental engagement, moving towards online reporting - Mike Briscoe, Director Institutions, Leadership and Safeguarding, Becta
Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update Data and DiscussionBlackboard
Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update, examines the growing student interest in online learning and how schools are meeting that demand. This report, which is the third in a series of reports published by Project Tomorrow®, a national education nonprofit organization, in collaboration with Blackboard, examines the Speak Up 2008 survey data collected online in Fall 2008 from more than 335,000 K-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents from across the nation.
Through this report you will gain insight, from schools and districts across the nation, about why students and teachers want access to classes online, the current challenges faced by districts with online learning implementations, and how online learning presents unprecedented opportunities for meeting the needs of our 21st century learner.
More at www.blackboard.com/k12/education21c
Successful schools in testing times: Insights from PISA 2018 Volume VEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents the latest findings from the most recent cycle of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
The PISA 2018 Results Volume V report focuses on issues relating to school organisation and the policies and practices that define how education systems work and change over time. The report also covers: school governance, selecting and grouping students, and the human, financial, educational and time resources allocated to teaching and learning. Results from PISA indicate the quality and equity of learning outcomes attained around the world, and allow educators and policy makers to learn from the policies and practices applied in other countries.
Educational Technology is becoming increasingly important in the higher education sector as innovative educators are using technology to improve pedagogy and student learning. This is not limited to academic institutions as corporate trainers also seek to leverage their people development resources to improve the operating performance of their organizations.
As a result the field of EdTech has been growing rapidly over the past decade as entrepreneurs see the opportunities to use technology to improve the speed and depth of learning. The drive ultimately stems from the transition to a knowledge economy where information is the vital fuel and improved learning can provide breakthrough insights that have substantial public or private value.
This presentation will look at the trends impacting and being impacted by EdTech, student and faculty perceptions, economics, adoption success, factors, investment patterns and the major technologies that are being used in higher educational institutions.
ReimaginED: The Future of K12 EducationDavid Havens
See the original post (with links!) at: http://www.newschools.org/blog/reimagined
Questions? Tweet me @eduhavens
NewSchools Venture Fund presents ReimaginED, a 50 slide overview of the present and future of education.
From TED talk playlists to government speeches, everyone agrees: education is changing. Exactly how, why, or what it all means is still up for debate. Are the low United States PISA scores a sign of stagnation or creativity? Does technology replace or enhance face to face interaction? Are we trying to teach skills, concepts, or learning mindsets?
At NewSchools, we’d like to set the stage differently, in the context of the ground up innovation already happening. While some see the systemic challenges facing us as signs of a depressed age or solemn future, we see it as a call to action. The time is now to re-imagine our education system, and the landscape that’s developed over the last several years offers fertile ground for new approaches.
Just what are the challenges facing our nation, and what are problem solvers doing to keep training the next generation to be the best and brightest? Find out in Re-imagined, a 50 slide overview of the present and future of education.
Listening Session: QQI Statutory Quality Assurance Guidelines for Providers o...Mark Brown
Presentation as part of Listening Session for revised QQI Statutory Quality Assurance Guidelines for Providers of Blended and Online Learning Programmes, 20/21 October, 2022.
Encouraging students to conduct research beyond Google in an online courseSt. Edward's University
Learn how to integrate library resources into your classroom using point of need learning and problem based learning techniques to create information literacy.
Exploring the cultural-historical factors influencing OER adoption in Mongoli...ROER4D
Exploring the cultural-historical factors influencing OER adoption in Mongolia’s higher education sector
Batbold Zagdragchaa & Henry Trotter
OE Global Conference 2017 Cape Town : 9 March 2017
Based on data form a range of ACODE Surveys over the last 12 months, and other industry data, there have been some distinct trends emerge that suggest that institutions are taking a fresh look at how they conduct teaching and assessment, longer term. Much of this has been predicated on what was necessary to deal with lock-down situations due to COVID-19, but more recently this has allowed institutions to consider the longer-term advantages in accommodating different forms of assessment, those that have traditionally fallen out of what was considered ‘normal’, most notably the ‘exam’. This shift in thinking has also extended to what institutions considering different forms of delivery of their core content, with there being a distinct shift away from what has been the mainstay for centuries, the ‘Lecture’. This shift has allowed for more authentic forms of delivery, ones based in more collaborative and active approaches. This presentation with provide a summary of some of the key data and share some examples of how some institutions are approaching the next few years, as uncertainty around the short-term future of in-person learning and teaching persists.
2012-2022: The Decade of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses)Fereshte Goshtasbpour
Katy Jordan, University of Lancaster (UK) and Fereshte Goshtasbpour, The Open University (UK)
In a New York Times article, Pappano (2012) declared 2012 as ‘the year of the MOOC’. It was a year which saw a surge in interest in this new, open form of online higher education. While the initial hype around Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) subsided and their form has changed significantly from the first large-scale courses, more learners than ever are registered with the platforms, which have attracted substantial levels of investment. In this presentation, we report the findings from a paper that brought together articles published about MOOCs in the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME) over the past ten years. First, the presentation provides an overview of major events and trends in relation to MOOCs over the past ten years. Then it takes a closer look at the 25 papers published in JIME arranged in relation to four main themes, including: situating MOOCs; learning design and roles; MOOCs and languages; and accessibility and inclusion.
Jordan, K. and Goshtasbpour, F., 2022. JIME Virtual Special Collection – 2012 to 2022: The Decade of the MOOC. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2022(1), p.1.DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.757
Digital wellbeing to institutional compassion: A co-created journey? David Biggins
The presentation to the ALT 2021 Conference. The presentation investigates the student wellbeing aspect of the Digital Learning Maturity Model (DLMM) and explores how much involvement students have in their digital learning environment and whether higher levels of co-creation and involvement, coupled with institutional and staff developments, can benefit student wellbeing.
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This session will demystify (generative) AI by exploring its workings as an advanced statistical modelling tool (suitable for any level of technical knowledge). Not only will this session explain the technological underpinnings of AI, it will also address concerns and (long-term) requirements around ethical and practical usage of AI. This includes data preparation and cleaning, data ownership, and the value of data-generated - but not owned - by libraries. It will also discuss the potentials for (hypothetical) use cases of AI in collections environments and making collections data AI-ready; providing examples of AI capabilities and applications beyond chatbots.
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Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
Christina Dinh Nguyen, University of Toronto Mississauga Library
In the world of digital literacies, liaison and instructional librarians are increasingly coming to terms with a new term: algorithmic literacy. No matter the liaison or instruction subjects – computer science, sociology, language and literature, chemistry, physics, economics, or other – students are grappling with assignments that demand a critical understanding, or even use, of algorithms. Over the course of this session, we’ll discuss the term ‘algorithmic literacies,’ explore how it fits into other digital literacies, and see why it as a curriculum might belong at your library. We’ll also look at some examples of practical pedagogical methods you can implement right away, depending on what types of AL lessons you want to teach, and who your patrons are. Lastly, we’ll discuss how librarians should view themselves as co-learners when working with AL skills. This session seeks to bring together participants from across the different libraries, with diverse missions/vision/mandates, to explore ways we can all benefit from teaching AL. If time permits, we may discuss how text and data librarians (functional specialists) can support the development of this curriculum.
David Pride, The Open University
In this paper, we present CORE-GPT, a novel question- answering platform that combines GPT-based language models and more than 32 million full-text open access scientific articles from CORE. We first demonstrate that GPT3.5 and GPT4 cannot be relied upon to provide references or citations for generated text. We then introduce CORE-GPT which delivers evidence-based answers to questions, along with citations and links to the cited papers, greatly increasing the trustworthiness of the answers and reducing the risk of hallucinations.
Cath Dishman, Cenyu Shen, Katherine Stephan
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
This plenary panel will discuss the problems of “predatory” publishing and what, if anything, publishers, our community and researchers can do to try and help minimise their abundancy/impact.
eth Montague-Hellen, Francis Crick Institute, Katie Fraser, University of Nottingham
Open Access is a foundational topic in Scholarly Communications. However, when information professionals and publishers talk about its future, it is nearly always Gold open access we discuss. Green was seen as the big solution for providing access to those who couldn’t afford it. However, publishers have protested that Green destroys their business models. How true is this, and are we even all talking the same language when we talk about Green?
Chris Banks, Imperial College London, Caren Milloy, Jisc,
Transitional agreements were developed in response to funder policy and institutional demand to constrain costs and facilitate funder compliance. They have since become the dominant model by which UK research outputs are made open access. In January 2023, Jisc instigated a critical review of TAs and the OA landscape to provide an evidence base to inform a conversation on the desired future state of research dissemination. This session will discuss the key findings of the review and its impact on a sector-wide consultation and concrete actions in the UK and beyond.
Michael Levine-Clark, University of Denver, Jason Price, SCELC Library Consortium
As transformative agreements emerge as a new standard, it is critical for libraries, consortia, publishers, and vendors to have consistent and comprehensive data – yet data around publication profiles, authorship, and readership has been shown to be highly variable in availability and accuracy. Building on prior research around frameworks for assessing the combined value of open publishing and comprehensive read access that these deals provide, we will address multi-dimensional perspectives to the challenges that the industry faces with the dissemination, collection, and analysis of data about authorship, readership, and value.
Hylke Koers, STM Solutions
Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) launched in 2020 with the objective of streamlining discovery and access of scholarly content in the many tools that researchers use today, such as Dimensions, Semantic Scholar, Mendeley, and many others. It works equally well for open access content as it does for subscription-based content, providing researchers with recognizable buttons and indicators to get them to the most up-to-date version of content with minimal effort. Currently, around 30,000 OA articles are accessed every day via GetFTR links.
Gareth Cole, Loughborough University, Adrian Clark, Figshare
Researchers face more pressure to share their research data than ever before. Owing to a rise in funder policies and momentum towards more openness across the research landscape. Although policies for data sharing are in place, engagement work is undertaken by librarians in order to ensure repository uptake and compliance.
We will discuss a particular strategy implemented at Loughborough University that involved the application of conceptual messaging frameworks to engagement activities in order to promote and encourage use of our Figshare-powered repository. We will showcase the rationale behind the adoption of messaging frameworks for library outreach and some practical examples.
Mark Lester, Cardiff Metropolitan University
This talk will outline how a completely accidental occurrence led to brand new avenues for open research advocacy and reasons for being. This advocacy has occurred within student communities such as trainee teachers, student psychologists and (especially) those soon losing access to subscription-based library content. Alongside these new forms of advocacy, these ethical example of AI use cases has begun to form a cornerstone of directly connecting the work of the library to new technology.
Simon Bell, Bristol University Press
The UN SDG Publishers Compact, launched in 2020, was set up to inspire action among publishers to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, asking signatories to develop sustainable practices, act as champions and publish books and journals that will “inform, develop and inspire action in that direction”.
This Lightning Talk will discuss how our new Bristol University Press Digital has been developed as part of our mission to contribute a meaningful and impactful response to this call to action as well as the global social challenges we face.
Using thematic tagging to create uniquely curated themed eBook collections around the Global Social Challenges, Bristol University Press Digital responds directly to the need to provide the scholarly community access to a comprehensive range SDG focussed content while minimising time and resource at the institution end in collating content and maintaining collection relevance to rapidly evolving themes
Jenni Adams, University of Sheffield, Ric Campbell, University of Sheffield
Academic researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to make data and software FAIR in order to support the sharing and reuse of non-publication outputs. Currently there is still a lack of concise and practical guidance on how to achieve this in the context of specific data types and disciplines.
This presentation details recent and ongoing work at the University of Sheffield to bridge this gap. It will explore the development of a FAIR resource with specialist guidance for a range of data types and will examine the planned development of this project during the period 2023-25
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ADAM DER, Max Planck Digital Library
Community-led organizations like DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), COUNTER (the standard for usage metrics) and OA Switchboard (information exchange for OA publications) are committed to providing reliable, not-for-profit services and standards essential for a well-functioning global research ecosystem. These organizations operate behind the scenes, with low budgets and limited staffing – no salespeople, marketing teams, travel budgets, or in-house technology support. They collaborate with one another and with bigger infrastructure bodies like Crossref and ORCID, creating the foundations on which much scholarly infrastructure relies.
These organizations deliver value through open infrastructure, data and standards, and naturally services and tools have been built by commercial and not-for-profit groups that capitalize on their open, interoperable data and services – many of which you are likely to recognize and may use on a regular basis.
Hear from the Directors of COUNTER, DOAJ and OA Switchboard, as well as a library leader, on the role of these organizations, the challenges they face and why support from the community is essential to their sustainability.
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Springer Nature
What is the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scholarly publishing community? It's time to take a thorough look at the 2023 global Workplace Equity (WE) Survey results. The C4DISC coalition conducted the WE Survey to capture perceptions, experiences, and demographics of colleagues working at publishers, associations, libraries, and many more types of organizations in the global community. Four key themes emerged from the 2023 results, which will be compared to the findings from the first WE Survey conducted in 2018. Recommendations for actions organisations can consider within their contexts will be proposed and discussed.
Rob Johnson, Research Consulting
Angela Cochran, American Society of Clinical Oncology
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Since 2015, the number of self-published learned societies in the UK has decreased by over a third, with the remaining societies experiencing real-term revenue declines. All around the world, society publishers are struggling with increased competition from commercial publishers and the rise of open access business models that reward quantity over quality. We will delve into the distinctive position of societies in research, examine the challenges confronting UK and US learned society publishers, and explore actionable steps for libraries and policymakers to support the continued relevance of learned society publishers in the evolving scholarly landscape.
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Over the last few years we have witnessed a seismic shift in the scholarly ecosystem. Three years since outset of the COVID pandemic and the establishment UN Publishers Compact, this is discussion-led presentation will look at how four UK Universities Presses have adopted a consultative and collaborative approach on projects to support their institutional missions, engage with the wider scholarly community while building on a commitment to make a meaningful difference to society.
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While research support teams are generally small and specialist in nature, an increased demand of its service has been observed across the sector. This is particularly true for teaching-intensive institutions. As a pilot to expand research support across ARU library, the library graduate trainee was seconded to the research services team for a month. This dialogue between the former trainee and manager will discuss what the experience and outcomes of the secondment were from different perspectives. The conversation will also explore the exposure Library and Information Studies students have to research services throughout their degree.
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The future-of-the-academic-information-supply-chain - ian middleton
1. 28th March 2012
UKSG Annual Conference
Endangered Species
Myths and Reality
Ian Middleton
Vice President & European General Manager
2. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Context
• The supply chain remains hugely
complex and highly dynamic
• Wide range of factors:
• evolving technology
• financial pressure
• economic climate
• research practices
• user behaviour
/expectations
• new service providers
• evolving roles
• changing business models
• new and emerging markets
• wider web
• and much more!
3. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Survey of opinion leaders
• 141 colleagues invited
• 98 answers
• 65% response rate
• Qualitative and quantitative
• Academic librarians (26/32)
• Agents/intermediaries (13/31)
• Publishers (24/36)
• Consortia leaders (9/13)
• Other opinion leaders (20/29)
(consultants, trade associations, research
funders, software providers etc.)
4. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Outcomes
• A series of white papers:
1. The Future Role of
the Academic Library
2. Access to Content:
Now and in Future
3. The Impact of Open Access
4. The Role of Subscription Agents
5. Future Forces for Change
• Available from EBSCO from April 30th
• Selected highlights in this presentation
6. EBSCO Information Day 2012
The Future Role of the Academic Library
For the coming 3-5 years, academic libraries
will remain a necessary and important
component of universities?
21% 1%
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Somewhat disagree
78% Strongly disagree
Not sure
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The Future Role of the Academic Library
Thinking about the next 3-5 years, please
identify any significant changes you anticipate
in the role played by academic libraries
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The Future Role of the Academic Library
Key themes
General services
• Far less collection
development activity
• Far fewer print holdings
and services
• Less buying:
access not ownership
• Emphasis on tools for
search, discovery & access
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The Future Role of the Academic Library
Key themes
Faculty/Student
Support Services
• Managing research
outputs (papers and data)
• Providing innovative
learning space
• Information and
digital literacy training
• Creating digital
collections from local
resources & assets
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The Future Role of the Academic Library
Key themes
Technology
• Being adept with
channels and tools
native to users
• Integrating technology
into teaching and learning
• Being based more within
faculty/departments
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The Future Role of the Academic Library
Key themes
Open Access
• Managing article
processing charges and
OA budgets [Gold OA]
• Supporting academics to:
• create their own
OA journals
• get best value from
their funding
• The library as publisher e.g.
New on-campus OA journal
13. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Access to Content: Now and in Future
The future of the big deals
As a means of optimising library budgets
the Big Deal has outlived its usefulness?
35%
30%
Strongly agree
14% Somewhat agree
Somewhat disagree
11% 10%
Strongly disagree
Not sure
14. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Access to Content: Now and in Future
Access models
For academic content, the subscription model
has outlived its usefulness?
42%
Strongly agree
22% 25% Somewhat agree
10% Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree
1% Not sure
15. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Access to Content: Now and in Future
Access models
Within 3-5 years, access/acquisition triggered
by patron request will be the most common
purchase model for academic content?
41%
31% Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
15% Somewhat disagree
4%
8% Strongly disagree
Not sure
16. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Access to Content: Now and in Future
Pricing models
who’s the fairest of them all?
Pricing based on one/more characteristics of purchasing
institution (e.g. FTEs; prior year spend etc.)?
49%
Strongly agree
28%
Somewhat agree
7% Somewhat disagree
8% 8% Strongly disagree
Not sure
17. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Access to Content: Now and in Future
Pricing models
who’s the fairest of them all?
Pricing based on actual usage assessed
after a period of access?
38% 39%
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
18%
Somewhat disagree
1% Strongly disagree
4%
Not sure
18. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Access to Content: Now and in Future
Pricing models
who’s the fairest of them all?
There are currently no fair methods
of pricing academic content?
36%
24% Strongly agree
14% 21% Somewhat agree
Somewhat disagree
6% Strongly disagree
Not sure
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Access to Content: Now and in Future
We asked librarians only to comment
on a range of other factors which might
influence purchasing decisions
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Access to Content: Now and in Future
What else matters...?
Most Important
• Relevance to
research/teaching programmes
• Recent usage by faculty
and students
• Value for money Least Important
(however determined)
• Demand from faculty • Fit with existing collection
• Cost-per-use • Availability through patron-driven
access model
• Demand from students
22. EBSCO Information Day 2012
The Impact of Open Access
In 3-5 years’ time, most academic content will
be available through one or more OA models?
49%
Strongly agree
26% Somewhat agree
15% Somewhat disagree
4%
Strongly disagree
6%
Not sure
23. EBSCO Information Day 2012
The Impact of Open Access
Open Access will disintermediate subscription
agents from the information supply chain
38%
33% Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
14% Somewhat disagree
4% 11%
Strongly disagree
Not sure
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The Impact of Open Access
Impact elsewhere…?
…possible disintermediation of
publishers?
78%
Agreed
13% Disagreed
10%
Not sure
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The Impact of Open Access
Impact elsewhere…?
…possible disintermediation of
libraries?
76%
Agreed
18% Disagreed
6%
Not sure
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The Impact of Open Access
In the coming 3-5 years, Open Access will
be the most significant force for change in
the academic information supply chain?
40%
24% Strongly agree
12% Somewhat agree
14% Somewhat disagree
10% Strongly disagree
Not sure
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The Impact of Open Access
Open Access: Themes
• OA will continue to grow
• Broad acceptance of
author pays (Gold OA)
• Some support for Green OA
but not universal
• Concerns about funding
(especially in humanities)
• Concerns about peer review
and quality
29. EBSCO Information Day 2012
The Role of Subscription Agents
The Changing Supply Chain Environment
Pressure to make cost-savings is widespread
but felt most keenly by subscription agents?
40%
37%
23% Agreed
Disagreed
Not sure
30. EBSCO Information Day 2012
The Role of Subscription Agents
The Changing Supply Chain Environment
Subscription agents continue to play an invaluable
role within the academic information supply chain?
77%
Agreed
Disagreed
10% 14%
Not sure
31. EBSCO Information Day 2012
The Role of Subscription Agents
The Changing Supply Chain Environment
As digital content becomes widespread, agents become
increasingly irrelevant to library-publisher transactions?
53%
34%
Agreed
14% Disagreed
Not sure
32. EBSCO Information Day 2012
The Role of Subscription Agents
The Changing Supply Chain Environment
As long as agents continue to develop value-added
services they will continue to have a role?
94%
Agreed
Disagreed
Not sure
6%
0%
34. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Future Forces for Change
Colleagues were asked to rate a range
of factors as potential forces for change
in the coming 3-5 years
1. Pressure on library budgets
2. Pressure on teaching & research budgets
3. Govt./funding body mandates for funded
results to be available through open access
4. Mobile technology
5. China/India/emerging economies shaping publishers’
activities
35. Colleagues were asked to rate a range UKSG Annual Conference
Future Forces for Change
of factors as potential forces for change
in the coming 3-5 years
Publishers Agents Consortia
1. Pressure on 1. Pressure on library budgets 1. Pressure on library budgets
library budgets 2. Mobile technology 2. Pressure on teaching & research
2. Pressure on teaching & 3. Pressure on teaching & research budgets
research budgets budgets 3. Govt./funding body mandates for
3. Gold open access 4. Falling student numbers funded results to be available
4. Mobile technology 5. Scholarly publishers increasing through open access
5. China/India/emerging the range of services 4. Green open access
economies shaping 5. China/India/emerging economies
publishers’ activities shaping publishers’ activities
Other opinion leaders Libraries
1. China/India/emerging economies shaping publishers’ 1. Pressure on library budgets
activities 2. Pressure on teaching & research budgets
2. Pressure on library budgets 3. Govt./funding body mandates for funded
3. Pressure on teaching & research budgets results to be available through open access
4. Govt./funding body mandates for funded results to be 4. Gold open access
available through open access 5. Green open access
5. More involvement in research comms. by small,
non-trad companies
37. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Conclusions
Known knowns…
• Landscape hugely dynamic…and will
continue to be so
• In the West, the economy will remain
the issue foreseeably, pressurising:
• institutional funding (library,
research, teaching budgets)
• the entire academic information
supply chain
• Open access will continue to bring
change and opportunity, and (for some)
threat to survival
38. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Conclusions
Evolution for most of us…
• Libraries: curating digital research data
• Publishers: growth beyond US/Europe
e.g. China, India, Brazil etc.
• Agents: as originators/curators of
metadata
• Content: nature/delivery/use shaped by
mobile technology
• Users: continually evolving behaviour
and demands
• Universities: increasingly competitive;
showcasing output
• Govts./Funders: mandates challenging
subscription paradigm
39. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Conclusions
Revolution for some?
• Library as publisher (e.g. OA journals; data)
• Librarians as digital literacy experts
• Agent as (OA) fund manager
• Agent as manager of patron-driven
access and use
• Agents to become first and foremost
technology companies?
• Publishers as research partners
(e.g. Digital Science)
• Funding bodies as publishers (e.g. eLife)
• New players may surprise us all -
through acquisition, encroachment or
by seizing an opportunity first
40. EBSCO Information Day 2012
Thank you
Our grateful thanks go to those
who kindly completed the survey.
Thanks to:
• Sarah Durrant,
Red Sage Consulting
(sarah@redsage.org)
• Delphine Dufour, Aude Sauer-Avargues
& Kevin Agostini
EBSCO Information Services
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Thank you
Visit:
www.ebsco.com/whitepapers to download
any of the white papers in the series
The Future of the Academic
Information Supply Chain:
1. The Future of the Academic Library
2. Access to Content: Now and in Future
3. The Impact of Open Access
4. The Role of Subscription Agents
5. Future Forces for Change
Ian Middleton
Vice President & European General Manager