This document summarizes a presentation given by Dr. Danny Kingsley on the changing role of academic libraries in an open access world. It discusses the current political climate which has reduced trust in science. Publishers are diversifying and integrating across the research lifecycle. Libraries may need to take on new roles like research partners and leaders in scholarly communication. Future library workforces will require skills in areas like data management, open access policies, and research assessment. Open research offers opportunities for libraries to support the integrity and reproducibility of science.
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
Impacts, consequences and outcomes of open policies in EuropeDanny Kingsley
The past few years have been extremely active ones for all things ‘open’ in Europe. The UK OA mandates have changed the publishing landscape, resulting in several subscription experiments with varied success. Over the past couple of years the number of European countries which have held out on their Big Deal negotiations continues to rise, and there are many examples where negotiations have completely broken down. The impact of this on libraries and researchers is still being assessed. And of course Plan S looms large, prompting huge debate and discussion across the sector. No-one is completely happy with Plan S but some players are more agitated than others. One of the outcomes has been a strong increase of interest in and signatories to DORA, and research culture itself is under scrutiny. The ‘post-truth’ political reality further emphasises the need for science to be above criticism, something being addressed by the UK Research Integrity Enquiry and the US Committee on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science. Meanwhile large academic publishers have seen the writing on the wall and are rapidly diversifying, resulting in a highly concentrated infrastructure market that threatens to shut down and monetise all aspects of the research process other than the final ‘open’ research output.
NewsTrain instructor Jill Riepenhoff provided this handout of tips on obtaining public records, as well as resources to learn more about data journalism, as part of the NewsTrain workshop in Columbus, Ohio, on Sept. 20, 2014. Please see an associated PowerPoint presentation -- Data-Driven Enterprise on Any Beat. NewsTrain is a traveling workshop for journalists sponsored by Associated Press Media Editors. For more information, visit http://www.apme.com/?AboutNewsTrain
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
Impacts, consequences and outcomes of open policies in EuropeDanny Kingsley
The past few years have been extremely active ones for all things ‘open’ in Europe. The UK OA mandates have changed the publishing landscape, resulting in several subscription experiments with varied success. Over the past couple of years the number of European countries which have held out on their Big Deal negotiations continues to rise, and there are many examples where negotiations have completely broken down. The impact of this on libraries and researchers is still being assessed. And of course Plan S looms large, prompting huge debate and discussion across the sector. No-one is completely happy with Plan S but some players are more agitated than others. One of the outcomes has been a strong increase of interest in and signatories to DORA, and research culture itself is under scrutiny. The ‘post-truth’ political reality further emphasises the need for science to be above criticism, something being addressed by the UK Research Integrity Enquiry and the US Committee on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science. Meanwhile large academic publishers have seen the writing on the wall and are rapidly diversifying, resulting in a highly concentrated infrastructure market that threatens to shut down and monetise all aspects of the research process other than the final ‘open’ research output.
NewsTrain instructor Jill Riepenhoff provided this handout of tips on obtaining public records, as well as resources to learn more about data journalism, as part of the NewsTrain workshop in Columbus, Ohio, on Sept. 20, 2014. Please see an associated PowerPoint presentation -- Data-Driven Enterprise on Any Beat. NewsTrain is a traveling workshop for journalists sponsored by Associated Press Media Editors. For more information, visit http://www.apme.com/?AboutNewsTrain
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.
Breaking out of our bubbles. Digital communications trends 2016 and beyond, s...CharityComms
Joe Hall, online campaigns and communications manager, The Climate Coalition/ founder, Woo Hoo Yeah Yeah!
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
Weaponized Web Archives: Provenance Laundering of Short Order Evidence Michael Nelson
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science & Digital Libraries Research Group
@WebSciDL, @phonedude_mln
With:
ODU: Michele C. Weigle, Mohamed Aturban, John Berlin, Sawood Alam, Plinio Vargas
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Herbert Van de Sompel, Martin Klein
ODU Computer Science Colloquium 2018-04-06
based on a 2018-03-23 presentation at the National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web
Bridging the divide - a social media workshopIan Clark
Slides to accompany a workshop looking at social media, how it's used and how we can engage with students using social media. Looks at blogs, Twitter, Flipboard and Instagram.
Weaponized Web Archives: Provenance Laundering of Short Order Evidence Michael Nelson
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science & Digital Libraries Research Group
@WebSciDL, @phonedude_mln
With:
ODU: Michele C. Weigle, Mohamed Aturban, John Berlin, Sawood Alam, Plinio Vargas
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Herbert Van de Sompel, Martin Klein
National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web
2018-03-23, #eaw18, @phonedude_mln
On Fake News, gatekeepers and LIS professionals (Bobcatsss2020)Matilde Fontanin
Keynote address - BOBCATSSS2020 - 22 January 2020
Abstract
“Fake news” has become a buzzword, but what does it mean? Understood, apparently, by everyone, the concept is the object of multidisciplinary studies. Admittedly, the first realm it touches is the news, that is journalist and political communication, but any discipline dealing with information cannot help but come to terms with a phenomenon which, ephemeral as it may be, has a great impact on our onlife experience.
Though already existing in the analogic world, fake news rises ethical questions after its inception in the digital realm. As for any innovation, it is only after the discovery phase is over that humans reflect on its impact on civil society. Cybernetics, founded by Norbert Wiener, induced Père Dubarle to wonder whether the new science, combined with the theory of games, would eventually generate a machine à gouverner, “to supply the obvious inadequacy of the brain when the latter is concerned with the customary machinery of politics”. These words, written decades ago, could still build the basis for an ethical reflection.
Since fake news affects information, the question is to what extent it affects a profession whose mission is to offer “an online collection of digital objects of assured quality” as the IFLA/UNESCO Manifesto for Digital Libraries states. Should LIS professionals deal with truth only? What is the meaning of true as opposed to fake? To what lengths should librarians strive to “verify” information? Where is the thin line between selection and censorship? And, above all, who says it is their task at all? After attempting a broad definition based on current literature, the focus of this talk is on the impact that the spread of fake news, disinformation and misinformation has on LIS professionals in terms of their mission, code of ethics, competences and professional requirements.
Yasmin AlNoamany
Michele C. Weigle
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science and Digital Libraries Group
ws-dl.cs.odu.edu
@WebSciDL
This work is supported in part by IMLS LG-71-15-0077
Old Dominion University ECE Department Colloquium
2015-11-13
These slides run through an Introduction to Open Access and the policy landscape surrounding it. These slides can be seen being presented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YwASIziPIQ
Access to Research, Sci-Hub, and the Honor Code: Ethical DilemmasSarah Crissinger
Sci-Hub’s mission is to remove barriers to research and knowledge production, particularly for unaffiliated researchers or researchers in developing countries. Yet, recent research suggests that Sci-Hub is also heavily used by researchers on college campuses, which makes this an important issue for the Davidson community to grapple with.
The panel will address several questions, such as: What is ethical for Davidson students to do in connection with Sci-Hub? Stealing is forbidden by the Honor Code, but does downloading papers from Sci-Hub represent illegal or unethical theft? Does the law dictate what’s ethical here, if access to scientific papers is normally restricted exclusively to those who can afford to purchase them, individually or through their school? How are our value judgments influenced by our own privilege and access to information?
Dalam rangka meningkatkan kuantitas dan kualitas publikasi ilmiah yang beretika dan berintegritas, Direktorat Pengelolaan Kekayaan Intelektual, Direktorat Jenderal Penguatan Riset dan Pengembangan menyelenggarakan Sosialisasi Anjungan Integritas Akademik - ANJANI - Tahun 2019.
Biodiversity—A Healthy Ecosystem Thrives on Fresh Ideas (Part 1 of 3), Phil J...Allen Press
Video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h38PvZMMJP0&list=PLybpVL27qHff3BVHuNXqYsqTs2e98_MpT&index=8
To maintain the long-term sustainability of the ecosystem, we need a steady flow of innovation and risk and a strong current of entrepreneurial spirit. Wherever ideas are generated—by a small, rebellious start-up or by a long-established player at the top of the food chain—they provide the catalyst and movement that keep things alive and well. We’ll conclude the day by looking at the transformational promise of open, linked, and shared data, the alignment of repository networks, data and metadata exchange, and a wrap-up of the current trends in scholarly publishing from the perspective of the university press.
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.
Breaking out of our bubbles. Digital communications trends 2016 and beyond, s...CharityComms
Joe Hall, online campaigns and communications manager, The Climate Coalition/ founder, Woo Hoo Yeah Yeah!
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
Weaponized Web Archives: Provenance Laundering of Short Order Evidence Michael Nelson
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science & Digital Libraries Research Group
@WebSciDL, @phonedude_mln
With:
ODU: Michele C. Weigle, Mohamed Aturban, John Berlin, Sawood Alam, Plinio Vargas
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Herbert Van de Sompel, Martin Klein
ODU Computer Science Colloquium 2018-04-06
based on a 2018-03-23 presentation at the National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web
Bridging the divide - a social media workshopIan Clark
Slides to accompany a workshop looking at social media, how it's used and how we can engage with students using social media. Looks at blogs, Twitter, Flipboard and Instagram.
Weaponized Web Archives: Provenance Laundering of Short Order Evidence Michael Nelson
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science & Digital Libraries Research Group
@WebSciDL, @phonedude_mln
With:
ODU: Michele C. Weigle, Mohamed Aturban, John Berlin, Sawood Alam, Plinio Vargas
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Herbert Van de Sompel, Martin Klein
National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web
2018-03-23, #eaw18, @phonedude_mln
On Fake News, gatekeepers and LIS professionals (Bobcatsss2020)Matilde Fontanin
Keynote address - BOBCATSSS2020 - 22 January 2020
Abstract
“Fake news” has become a buzzword, but what does it mean? Understood, apparently, by everyone, the concept is the object of multidisciplinary studies. Admittedly, the first realm it touches is the news, that is journalist and political communication, but any discipline dealing with information cannot help but come to terms with a phenomenon which, ephemeral as it may be, has a great impact on our onlife experience.
Though already existing in the analogic world, fake news rises ethical questions after its inception in the digital realm. As for any innovation, it is only after the discovery phase is over that humans reflect on its impact on civil society. Cybernetics, founded by Norbert Wiener, induced Père Dubarle to wonder whether the new science, combined with the theory of games, would eventually generate a machine à gouverner, “to supply the obvious inadequacy of the brain when the latter is concerned with the customary machinery of politics”. These words, written decades ago, could still build the basis for an ethical reflection.
Since fake news affects information, the question is to what extent it affects a profession whose mission is to offer “an online collection of digital objects of assured quality” as the IFLA/UNESCO Manifesto for Digital Libraries states. Should LIS professionals deal with truth only? What is the meaning of true as opposed to fake? To what lengths should librarians strive to “verify” information? Where is the thin line between selection and censorship? And, above all, who says it is their task at all? After attempting a broad definition based on current literature, the focus of this talk is on the impact that the spread of fake news, disinformation and misinformation has on LIS professionals in terms of their mission, code of ethics, competences and professional requirements.
Yasmin AlNoamany
Michele C. Weigle
Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Web Science and Digital Libraries Group
ws-dl.cs.odu.edu
@WebSciDL
This work is supported in part by IMLS LG-71-15-0077
Old Dominion University ECE Department Colloquium
2015-11-13
These slides run through an Introduction to Open Access and the policy landscape surrounding it. These slides can be seen being presented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YwASIziPIQ
Access to Research, Sci-Hub, and the Honor Code: Ethical DilemmasSarah Crissinger
Sci-Hub’s mission is to remove barriers to research and knowledge production, particularly for unaffiliated researchers or researchers in developing countries. Yet, recent research suggests that Sci-Hub is also heavily used by researchers on college campuses, which makes this an important issue for the Davidson community to grapple with.
The panel will address several questions, such as: What is ethical for Davidson students to do in connection with Sci-Hub? Stealing is forbidden by the Honor Code, but does downloading papers from Sci-Hub represent illegal or unethical theft? Does the law dictate what’s ethical here, if access to scientific papers is normally restricted exclusively to those who can afford to purchase them, individually or through their school? How are our value judgments influenced by our own privilege and access to information?
Dalam rangka meningkatkan kuantitas dan kualitas publikasi ilmiah yang beretika dan berintegritas, Direktorat Pengelolaan Kekayaan Intelektual, Direktorat Jenderal Penguatan Riset dan Pengembangan menyelenggarakan Sosialisasi Anjungan Integritas Akademik - ANJANI - Tahun 2019.
Biodiversity—A Healthy Ecosystem Thrives on Fresh Ideas (Part 1 of 3), Phil J...Allen Press
Video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h38PvZMMJP0&list=PLybpVL27qHff3BVHuNXqYsqTs2e98_MpT&index=8
To maintain the long-term sustainability of the ecosystem, we need a steady flow of innovation and risk and a strong current of entrepreneurial spirit. Wherever ideas are generated—by a small, rebellious start-up or by a long-established player at the top of the food chain—they provide the catalyst and movement that keep things alive and well. We’ll conclude the day by looking at the transformational promise of open, linked, and shared data, the alignment of repository networks, data and metadata exchange, and a wrap-up of the current trends in scholarly publishing from the perspective of the university press.
This presentation is part of the Digital Scholar Training Series at USC and CHLA.
Learn more about the initiative: http://sc-ctsi.org/digital-scholar/
News story: http://sc-ctsi.org/index.php/news/new-digital-scholar-training-initiative-helps-researchers-better-utilize-we#.VDhIWWK9mKU
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.
Researchers: how and why manage research data; CDU Darwin 070915Richard Ferrers
An ANDS(.org.au) brief presentation to Charles Darwin University researchers on research data management (RDM). What, Why and How to do RDM? Presentation 07 Sept 2015, Darwin Aust.
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.
Open Access and Research Integrity Workshop Introduction - 2014Right to Research
A presentation given at the IFMSA August Meeting Pre-GA 2014 talking about Open Access and what students can do. More can be found at www.righttoresearch.org/learn/IFMSAAM2014
Libraries: technology as artifact and technology in practicelisld
Research and learning workflows are increasingly enacted in data-rich network environments. New behaviors are emerging which are shaped by and in turn shape workflow and data tools and services. This means that library attention is shifting from not only providing support systems and services but to supporting those behaviors more directly as they emerge. This support may take the form of particular system or services, but will also involve consulting and advising about such things as publication venues, reputation management, profiles, research networking.
A keynote presentation given at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities CITM and Library Deans meeting. Loyola University, Maryland.
Altmetrics / New metrics / Article-level metrics : a new metric of scholarly ...Eileen Shepherd
Altmetrics is a new measurement for the impact of scholarly content, based on how far and wide it travels through the social web, social bookmarking and collaboration tools. This presentation is a contribution to the continuing professional development (CPD) programme at Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Similar to What *is* a library in an 'open' future (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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New Directions in Targeted Therapeutic Approaches for Older Adults With Mantl...i3 Health
i3 Health is pleased to make the speaker slides from this activity available for use as a non-accredited self-study or teaching resource.
This slide deck presented by Dr. Kami Maddocks, Professor-Clinical in the Division of Hematology and
Associate Division Director for Ambulatory Operations
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, will provide insight into new directions in targeted therapeutic approaches for older adults with mantle cell lymphoma.
STATEMENT OF NEED
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rare, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) accounting for 5% to 7% of all lymphomas. Its prognosis ranges from indolent disease that does not require treatment for years to very aggressive disease, which is associated with poor survival (Silkenstedt et al, 2021). Typically, MCL is diagnosed at advanced stage and in older patients who cannot tolerate intensive therapy (NCCN, 2022). Although recent advances have slightly increased remission rates, recurrence and relapse remain very common, leading to a median overall survival between 3 and 6 years (LLS, 2021). Though there are several effective options, progress is still needed towards establishing an accepted frontline approach for MCL (Castellino et al, 2022). Treatment selection and management of MCL are complicated by the heterogeneity of prognosis, advanced age and comorbidities of patients, and lack of an established standard approach for treatment, making it vital that clinicians be familiar with the latest research and advances in this area. In this activity chaired by Michael Wang, MD, Professor in the Department of Lymphoma & Myeloma at MD Anderson Cancer Center, expert faculty will discuss prognostic factors informing treatment, the promising results of recent trials in new therapeutic approaches, and the implications of treatment resistance in therapeutic selection for MCL.
Target Audience
Hematology/oncology fellows, attending faculty, and other health care professionals involved in the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).
Learning Objectives
1.) Identify clinical and biological prognostic factors that can guide treatment decision making for older adults with MCL
2.) Evaluate emerging data on targeted therapeutic approaches for treatment-naive and relapsed/refractory MCL and their applicability to older adults
3.) Assess mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapies for MCL and their implications for treatment selection
Couples presenting to the infertility clinic- Do they really have infertility...Sujoy Dasgupta
Dr Sujoy Dasgupta presented the study on "Couples presenting to the infertility clinic- Do they really have infertility? – The unexplored stories of non-consummation" in the 13th Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE 2024) at Manila on 24 May, 2024.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE.pdfAnujkumaranit
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. It encompasses tasks such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and language understanding. AI technologies are revolutionizing various fields, from healthcare to finance, by enabling machines to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.
Prix Galien International 2024 Forum ProgramLevi Shapiro
June 20, 2024, Prix Galien International and Jerusalem Ethics Forum in ROME. Detailed agenda including panels:
- ADVANCES IN CARDIOLOGY: A NEW PARADIGM IS COMING
- WOMEN’S HEALTH: FERTILITY PRESERVATION
- WHAT’S NEW IN THE TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS,
ONCOLOGICAL AND INFLAMMATORY SKIN DISEASES?
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ETHICS
- GENE THERAPY
- BEYOND BORDERS: GLOBAL INITIATIVES FOR DEMOCRATIZING LIFE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROMOTING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE
- ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN LIFE SCIENCES
- Prix Galien International Awards Ceremony
Lung Cancer: Artificial Intelligence, Synergetics, Complex System Analysis, S...Oleg Kshivets
RESULTS: Overall life span (LS) was 2252.1±1742.5 days and cumulative 5-year survival (5YS) reached 73.2%, 10 years – 64.8%, 20 years – 42.5%. 513 LCP lived more than 5 years (LS=3124.6±1525.6 days), 148 LCP – more than 10 years (LS=5054.4±1504.1 days).199 LCP died because of LC (LS=562.7±374.5 days). 5YS of LCP after bi/lobectomies was significantly superior in comparison with LCP after pneumonectomies (78.1% vs.63.7%, P=0.00001 by log-rank test). AT significantly improved 5YS (66.3% vs. 34.8%) (P=0.00000 by log-rank test) only for LCP with N1-2. Cox modeling displayed that 5YS of LCP significantly depended on: phase transition (PT) early-invasive LC in terms of synergetics, PT N0—N12, cell ratio factors (ratio between cancer cells- CC and blood cells subpopulations), G1-3, histology, glucose, AT, blood cell circuit, prothrombin index, heparin tolerance, recalcification time (P=0.000-0.038). Neural networks, genetic algorithm selection and bootstrap simulation revealed relationships between 5YS and PT early-invasive LC (rank=1), PT N0—N12 (rank=2), thrombocytes/CC (3), erythrocytes/CC (4), eosinophils/CC (5), healthy cells/CC (6), lymphocytes/CC (7), segmented neutrophils/CC (8), stick neutrophils/CC (9), monocytes/CC (10); leucocytes/CC (11). Correct prediction of 5YS was 100% by neural networks computing (area under ROC curve=1.0; error=0.0).
CONCLUSIONS: 5YS of LCP after radical procedures significantly depended on: 1) PT early-invasive cancer; 2) PT N0--N12; 3) cell ratio factors; 4) blood cell circuit; 5) biochemical factors; 6) hemostasis system; 7) AT; 8) LC characteristics; 9) LC cell dynamics; 10) surgery type: lobectomy/pneumonectomy; 11) anthropometric data. Optimal diagnosis and treatment strategies for LC are: 1) screening and early detection of LC; 2) availability of experienced thoracic surgeons because of complexity of radical procedures; 3) aggressive en block surgery and adequate lymph node dissection for completeness; 4) precise prediction; 5) adjuvant chemoimmunoradiotherapy for LCP with unfavorable prognosis.
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NVBDCP.pptx Nation vector borne disease control programSapna Thakur
NVBDCP was launched in 2003-2004 . Vector-Borne Disease: Disease that results from an infection transmitted to humans and other animals by blood-feeding arthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas. Examples of vector-borne diseases include Dengue fever, West Nile Virus, Lyme disease, and malaria.
Ethanol (CH3CH2OH), or beverage alcohol, is a two-carbon alcohol
that is rapidly distributed in the body and brain. Ethanol alters many
neurochemical systems and has rewarding and addictive properties. It
is the oldest recreational drug and likely contributes to more morbidity,
mortality, and public health costs than all illicit drugs combined. The
5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM-5) integrates alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence into a single
disorder called alcohol use disorder (AUD), with mild, moderate,
and severe subclassifications (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
In the DSM-5, all types of substance abuse and dependence have been
combined into a single substance use disorder (SUD) on a continuum
from mild to severe. A diagnosis of AUD requires that at least two of
the 11 DSM-5 behaviors be present within a 12-month period (mild
AUD: 2–3 criteria; moderate AUD: 4–5 criteria; severe AUD: 6–11 criteria).
The four main behavioral effects of AUD are impaired control over
drinking, negative social consequences, risky use, and altered physiological
effects (tolerance, withdrawal). This chapter presents an overview
of the prevalence and harmful consequences of AUD in the U.S.,
the systemic nature of the disease, neurocircuitry and stages of AUD,
comorbidities, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, genetic risk factors, and
pharmacotherapies for AUD.
1. What is an academic library in an
open access world?
Health Libraries Conference
William Angliss Conference Centre Melbourne
Friday 13 September 2019
Tweets on #hliconf2019
Dr Danny Kingsley, Scholarly Communication Consultant, @dannykay68
Slides available CC-BY: Attribution Danny Kingsley
2. Hold onto your hats!
• Current political landscape
• Future publishing
• Future libraries
• Changing relationship with publishers
• Future workforce
• Future Opportunities
3. The past 4.5 years in Cambridge
Images by Danny Kingsley
5. 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
6. This was 77 years ago
• “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.”
7. During the Brexit discussion
https://www.ft.com/content/3be49734-29cb-11e6-83e4-abc22d5d108c
8. 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.
9. The incident of
“the black pen on the map”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-hurricane-map-
briefing-today-shows-dorian-tracker-seemingly-altered-
with-black-pen-or-sharpie-marker-2019-09-04/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-
politics/trump-map-hurricane-dorian-sharpie-fake-doctored-alabama-
noaa-storm-a9092521.html
13. The credibility of science is under
threat
• “Speaking as a scientist, cherrypicking
evidence is unacceptable,” Hawking said [in
March 2018]. “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. This is fueling the problem
https://www.livescience.com/64353-top-retracted-papers-2018.html
17. Open Research is addressing this problem
The only thing that counts in academia is publication of
novel results in high impact journals
Data gathering
Analysis
Writing
PublishingDissemination
Reuse
Assessment
18. Mechanisms for achieving OR
• Making research outputs openly accessible
• Robust research data management
• Registering trials
• Using systems like the CRediT taxonomy for
author contributions
https://www.cell.com/pb/assets/raw/shared/guidelines/CRediT-taxonomy.pdf
• Open peer review
• Publishing null results
• Research integrity training – integrity of the
researcher and of the research
23. Breaking news in UK
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uks-plan-mandatory-research-ethics-training-dropped
24. Breaking news in Australia
https://theconversation.com/there-is-a-problem-australias-top-scientist-alan-finkel-pushes-to-eradicate-bad-science-123374
“I strongly believe the overall
quality of research in Australia
would be strengthened by research
integrity training for all
researchers.”
26. Publishing in an internet age
“The most successful early entrants into online
academic publishing were big commercial
publishing firms. They were large enough to
absorb the technical costs involved… digital
distribution opened up new ways of generating
income”
– Big Deals
– Selling individual articles
– Paid-for data eg: usage statistics
– Charging for TDM
“Untangling Academic Publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests,
academic prestige ad the circulation of research”, Fyfe, A. et al, May 2017
https://zenodo.org/record/546100
27. Publishers are very concerned
https://www.stm-
assoc.org/2017_10_10_Frankfurt_Conference_Wouter_Haak_STM_Presentation.pdf
28. Who does this threaten?
John Bohannon, “Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone”, Science, Apr. 28, 2016
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone
33. Concerns from 2015
More than 50% of 2013 papers were published
with only five publishers
Larivière V, Haustein S, Mongeon P (2015) The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers
in the Digital Era. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127502. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0127502
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127502
34. By 2017 - complete ecosystem
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/
36. Everyone’s getting into it
Esploro is a new product from ExLibris, a company
owned by ProQuest
http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/research-services-a-new-approach-esploro/
37. Cradle to grave 2017
“Aggregators like EBSCO and
ProQuest are investing substantially
in content support businesses, while
scientific publishers are investing
substantially in research
management and analytics
businesses. How and why they are
making these investments tells us
something about how they see the
environment developing and offer
indications of how libraries may
wish to engage them most
effectively.”
The Strategic Investments of Content Providers -http://www.sr.ithaka.org/blog/the-
strategic-investments-of-content-providers/
38. SPARC analysis 2019
“The goal of this
document is to describe
the current landscape
of publishers moving
into core activities of
universities.”
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/landscape-analysis/
39. Moving into research of research
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/trust-in-research
62% of researchers regard all or a majority of the
research outputs they see as reliable, over a third
(37%) said they only viewed half or some of them
as reliable.
41. Alternatively … we have Open Research?
https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/908435/Trust_in_Research_report_summary_Final_20_08_19.pdf
42. We are sleepwalking into redundancy
If we do not move fast, the entire higher
education sector will be run by huge
commercial publishing organisations.
44. Timeline of Elsevier & UC negotiations
• July 2018 - Negotiations began
• November 2018 - UC was communicating with their researchers
about progress in the negotiations.
• 31 December 2018 - the existing five-year subscription ended.
• 27 February 2019 - Elsevier approached faculty members who were
editors of their journals directly and spoke to media about the
negotiations prior to a planned 1 March meeting.
• 28 February 2019 - In response UC pulled out of negotiations.
• 10 July 2019 - Elsevier cut off access to articles published after 1
January 2019
• UC has perpetual access to most publications before this date.
According to the Librarian at UCLA (in a panel discussion at a recent
FORCE Scholarly Communication Institute), the usage of the most
recent year’s Science Direct publications was approximately 15% of
all downloads of the corpus.
46. Subscribe to Open
• Berghahn Books, the social sciences publisher based
in Brooklyn, NY and Oxford, U.K., has announced a pilot
to move 13 of the anthropology journals it publishes to
Open Access (OA) from 2020 onwards. In partnership
with Libraria, a group of anthropologists and other
social scientists committed to open access, and the support
of Knowledge Unlatched, Berghahn will be asking
libraries current subscribing to these journals to renew for
2020 on a Subscribe-to-Open basis, which will make these
journals free to readers and authors everywhere.
• http://www.stm-publishing.com/berghahn-to-pilot-the-
move-of-13-anthropology-journals-to-subscribe-to-open/
48. Food for thought
Within the environment where the users of your
material come from all over the world and your
own cohort looks globally for information, the idea
of a library as a collector and gatekeeper of
information for your closed/defined community
makes less and less sense.
MIT Future of Libraries Task Force
https://future-of-
libraries.mit.edu/sites/default/files/FutureLibr
aries-PrelimReport-Final.pdf
50. What can YOU do?
• MIT Institute-wide task force on
the Future of Libraries
– Be global and local in services
– Skill generation in information
assessment
– Dissemination of research
generated internally
– Provide comprehensive digital
access to collections
– Generate open content platforms
– Open access policies and
infrastructure
– Preservation and stewardship
https://future-of-libraries.mit.edu/sites/default/files/FutureLibraries-
PrelimReport-Final.pdf
51. What is the role of the library?
• Discussion at RLUK2017 conference.
– Are librarians support staff or research partners?
– Should we be collaborating and partnering with
the research community?
– Should we be leading the University over these
issues?
• See: “Become part of the research process –
observations from RLUK2017”
– https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/
52. What is Scholarly Communication?
• Association of College and Research Libraries
(ACRL) 2003 definition:
– "the system through which research and other
scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality,
disseminated to the scholarly community, and
preserved for future use. The system includes both
formal means of communication, such as publication
in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels, such
as electronic listservs.”
• http://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit/
• Often Scholarly Communication services are run
out of libraries
53. The story so far….
• Changing political landscape
• Reduced trust in science
• Publishers changing their business models
• Movement by some libraries to address the
monopoly
• What does this mean for people who are
working in libraries?
55. • High skills gap in nine key areas
– Ability to advise on preserving research outputs
– Knowledge to advise on data management and curation, including ingest, discovery,
access, dissemination, preservation, and portability
– Knowledge to support researchers in complying with the various mandates of funders,
including open access requirements
– Knowledge to advise on potential data manipulation tools used in the discipline/
subject
– Knowledge to advise on data mining
– Knowledge to advocate, and advise on, the use of metadata
– Ability to advise on the preservation of project records e.g. correspondence
– Knowledge of sources of research funding to assist researchers to identify potential
funders
– Skills to develop metadata schema, and advise on discipline/subject standards and
practices, for individual research projects
Reskilling for Research – RLUK report 2012
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/RLUK-Re-skilling.pdf
56. • 2012 analysis of job announcements – identified
‘Scholarly communications librarians’ as a new role
for health sciences
– https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3794682/
• 2015 paper on scholarly communication coaching:
“To successfully address the current needs of a
forward-thinking faculty, the academic library needs
to place scholarly communication competencies in
the toolkit of every librarian who has a role
interacting with subject faculty.”
– http://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1100&
context=lib_fac
Increased need
57. Core competencies
• 2015 - Scholarly communication is recognised as
a core competency in academic librarianship
• Scholarly Communication as a Core Competency: Prevalence, Activities, and Concepts
of Scholarly Communication Librarianship as Shown Through Job Advertisements -
https://jlsc-pub.org/articles/abstract/10.7710/2162-3309.1236/
• 2016 - areas of responsibility:
– Providing access to data
– Support and advocacy for managing data
– Managing data collections
• NASIG: "Librarians' Competencies Profile for Research Data Management”
https://www.coar-repositories.org/files/Competencies-for-RDM_June-2016.pdf
58. Small research project
• Survey sent out September 2016
– 540 responses
– 177 said that RDM was part of their job
• Are academic librarians getting the training they need?
– https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=995
– Our hypothesis is simple: there is a systematic lack of education on
scholarly communication issues available to those entering the library
profession. This is creating a time bomb skills gap in the academic
library profession and unless action is taken we may well end up with
a workforce not suited to work in the 21st century research library.
• Changing roles and changing needs for academic librarians
– https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1189
– Literature review of research on the issue of training for librarians.
– Many people working in scholarly communication come from outside
the Library sector.
60. Who is training the trainers?
Classification Number Response rate
Working with RDM 177/540 respondents 33%
Of those - have/are
working towards a PG
qualification in LIS
120/540 respondents 23%
Of those - feel that their LIS
qualification equipped
them with knowledge to
perform role
46/120 respondents 38%
62. Unhelpful
• Most LIS graduates don’t
enter the field with any
significant education
around scholarly
communication
https://www.imls.gov/publications/positioning-library-and-information-science-
graduate-programs-21st-century-practice
63. Could be worse…
https://www.alia.org.au/about-alia/policies-standards-and-guidelines/library-and-information-sector-core-
knowledge-skills-and-attributes
• Mentions understanding “the ethical,
legal and policy issues” in the sector and
of distribution of information
• Mentions managing the “digital assets
under the control of the library”
• Data is mentioned in terms of databases
and in the context of "to advance library
and information science theory and its
application to the provision of
information services”
• No mention of copyright or licensing
• No mention of advocacy, research data,
repositories, infrastructure, coding,
research culture, etc
65. Not unique. Different.
The skill required of people working in libraries
in institutions *producing* information as well
as *consuming* it are different.
https://quotefancy.com/quote/1693276/Noah-Kagan-Consuming-is-the-opposite-of-producing
Picture: Paulis Jacionis
66. Locally….
• Little sector-wide work on the changing skills
or changing job advertisements.
• Closest is work of Simons and Richardson
https://www.caul.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/meetings/cairss2018simons-
richardson-20m.pdf
67. ‘Repository’ out of favour - 2016
• For a decade there were ‘repository managers’. Of the 16 roles posted to
the list in 2016 only 2 explicitly mention the word ‘repository’ and just 1
‘librarian’:
– Research Repository Data Administrator
– Research Publications Officer (x2)
– Research Data Management Advisor
– Research Data Support Manager
– Copyright and Scholarly Communications Manager
– Research and Scholarly Communications Consultant
– Open Access & Research Data Advisor
– Open Access Officer
– Manager of the Institutional Repository
– REF and Systems Manager
– Research Data Adviser
– Research Publications Manager
– Research support librarian
– Research Data Officer
– Research Publications Assistant
http://ukcorr.org/2016/10/21/repository-professionals-the-next-generation/
69. • At Yale - Increasingly the university is asking librarians to
have outreach as part of their role. Outreach is valued in the
evaluation process.
• For some existing staff this was not comfortable – they
wanted to be curators. The feeling for these people was they
‘changed the rules on me’ – so the university helps them
make the transition.
• Some have come along the outreach path, others have
moved somewhere else – and the university helps them with
that move.
Changing expectations
Evolution of Library Ethnography Studies - notes from talk - Susan Gibbons 2015
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=69
70. • Dr Sarah Pittaway - UKSG Forum 2016
– Arguing we need to broaden our definition of ‘librarian’.
Diversity is beneficial.
• “When is a librarian not a librarian?”
http://www.uksg.org/sites/uksg.org/files/PresentationPittaway.pdf
Librarians or not?
Qualified library & information professionals in Further Education - Case for Support - 17 May 2016
https://www.cilip.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/qualified_library_information_professionals_fe_colleges.pdf
71. Serious question
• Discussion at RLUK 2017
– We need to develop digital
leaders for libraries. Are these
people already in libraries who
we train up, or are they people
with these skill sets we bring in
and introduce to library culture?
• “Become part of the research
process” – observations from
RLUK2017
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.c
am.ac.uk/?p=1384
Image: Pixabay
72. FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES
The only thing that is certain is “business as was” is no more. A fully open or a
fully closed future each offer opportunities and challenges for libraries
73. • “The research librarian of the future: data
scientist and co-investigator”
– Librarian as co-investigator, not an overhead
• By using their data science and digital skills, research
librarians have the opportunity to make an impactful
contribution to the workflow of their faculty colleagues.
Librarians’ data science skills can help navigate through the
deluge of information, and can truly change how they are
perceived: from an overhead service to research co-
investigators.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/12/14/th
e-research-librarian-of-the-future-data-scientist-and-co-
investigator/
Colleague not servant
74. Part of the production of knowledge
https://iupui.libguides.com/systreviews/librarianauthors
75. Useful summary
We identified 18 different roles filled by librarians and other information professionals in
conducting systematic reviews from 310 different articles, book chapters, and presented
papers and posters. Some roles were well known such as searching, source selection,
and teaching. Other less documented roles included planning, question formulation, and
peer review.
77. Is it our ‘place’?
http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/keep-
calm-and-know-your-place-3/
78. Yes we should be driving this agenda
• Scholarly Communication takes a ‘meta’ view of the
research ecosystem
• Disciplinary differences mean individual researchers
come to the table with very specific perspectives
• They all think they are right
• Very few understand that things are different in other
disciplines – and that these are as valid as their own
• Scholarly Communication is a research discipline of its
own. This is not recognised by most academics!
79. Future roles
• Research partner
• Advocacy, negotiation, landscape mapping
• Owning the scholarly communication agenda
Image: Pixabay
80. Summary
• Current political landscape
– Reduced trust in science
– Need for open research
• Future publishing
– Diversification of publishers
– Concentration of the market
• Future libraries
– Global endeavour
– Scholarly communication
• Changing relationship with publishers
– Elsevier & University of California
• Future workforce
– Changing skills required
• Future Opportunities
– Becoming part of the production of knowledge
– We should be driving the agenda
81. Thanks!
Dr Danny Kingsley, @dannykay68
Scholarly Communication Consultant
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