Introduction:Introduction:The Scholarly Communication SystemThe Scholarly Communication System

Presenter: Presenter: Richard KearneyRichard Kearney

VALE Scholarly Communication WorkshopMarch 14, 2011

Eventually, Steve looked up. His mother was nowhere in sight and this was certainly no longer the toy department.

Gary Larson

Iterations in the life cycle of scholarshipIdea

research

peer review

data

publicationdissemination

manuscript

preservationexpansion/reformulation

copy editing

copyrights assignment

major participants in that life cycleresearchers

authorsfoundations

scholarly societies

federal agenciesuniversities

publisherslibraries

taxpaying public

AcademicLibraryPublisher

Editor

Peer Reviewers

CreationCreationManuscript & IP

DisseminationDisseminationPublicationPublication

ReformulationReformulation

Disruption #1:

The Economic Model The Economic Model Proved UnsustainableProved Unsustainable

cost

AcademicLibrary

budget

Publisher

Editor

Peer Reviewers

CreationCreationIP

DisseminationDisseminationPublicationPublication

pressure pointspressure points

IP

ReformulationReformulation

Libraries Have Communicated with Faculty about This:Scholarly Communication and Open Access: Research and Publication in Flux (Rutgers University)http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/scholarly_comm/scholarly_comm.shtml

Scholarly Communication Crisis (University of Connecticut)http://www.lib.uconn.edu/about/publications/scholarlycommunication.html

Scholarly Communication: Crisis and Revolution (University of California, Berkeley)http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/crisis.html

Scholarly Publishing Crisis (California State University, San Marcos)http://biblio.csusm.edu/scholarly-publishing-crisis

The Crisis in Scholarly Communication (Cornell University)http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/StatementOnCrisis.htm

The Crisis in Scholarly Communication (Michigan State University)http://www.lib.msu.edu/features/crisis/

The Crises in Scholarly Communication (University of Colorado at Boulder)http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/dean/scholarlycomm.htm

Disruption #2:

The World Wide WebThe World Wide Web

AcademicLibraryPublisher

Editor

Reviewers

Most scholarly publications still mimic print: linear, formal, publisher-coordinated

Most scholarly publications still mimic print: linear, formal, publisher-coordinated

internetinternet

creationpublicationdisseminationreformulation

scholars are scholars are beginning to exploit beginning to exploit

the power of the Webthe power of the Web

Iterations in the life cycle of scholarshipIdea

research

peer review

data

publicationdissemination

manuscript

preservationexpansion/reformulation

copy editing

copyrights assignment

internetinternet

creationpublicationdisseminationreformulation

PUB

ED

P-R

LIB

What role, then, for What role, then, for publishers and libraries?publishers and libraries?How can we/they add How can we/they add value in a new system?value in a new system?

internetinternet

creationpublicationdisseminationreformulation

Publishers

editor

Peer-reviewers

Libraries

Disaggregation of traditional system is in process…Disaggregation of traditional system is in process…

new models are popping upnew models are popping up

repositories e-journals

working papers data banks

preprints

““Scientific publishers should be terrified Scientific publishers should be terrified that some of the world’s best scientists, that some of the world’s best scientists, people at or near their research peak, …people at or near their research peak, …

are spending hundreds of hours each are spending hundreds of hours each year creating original research content year creating original research content

for their blogs, content that in many for their blogs, content that in many cases would be difficult or impossible to cases would be difficult or impossible to

publish in a conventional journal.publish in a conventional journal.

By comparison, journals are standing still.”By comparison, journals are standing still.”

Michael Nielsen, “Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?”, blog post on The future of science, June 29, 2009

Disruption #3:

The ‘Open’ Movement The ‘Open’ Movement

disruption:

Open Movement Open Movement

power of ‘open’

disruption:

Open Movement Open Movement

access grows impact

disruption:

Open Movement Open Movement

there’s more than one way to fund a scholarly distribution system

disruption:

Open Movement Open Movement

taxpayers should have access to the research they fund

disruption:

Open Movement Open Movement

universities create new knowledge for the good of society

Ref

orm

Goal: Goal: Build capacity to Build capacity to integrate scholarly integrate scholarly communications communications

awareness and reform into awareness and reform into our work as academic our work as academic

librarianslibrarians

This work was created by Lee Van Orsdel for the ACRL National Conference, Scholarly Communications 101

Workshop and last updated July 16, 2009. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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