the future of research communication jan 2011
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At a recent study day between British library, LSE Libray and Oxford University staff. Karen Phillips of Sage gave a presentation on the future of research and its possible impact.Topics discussed include the rising research output, changes in its geographical and subject split, the implications for libraries and new models of communication.TRANSCRIPT
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The Future of Research Communication
Karen Phillips
January 2011
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The future of research communication
● Growth of research investment ● Geographical and disciplinary spread● Role and funding of library● New models of publishing and product
types● Changes in technology
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Key factors
● The global landscape of research● The role of the library● Changes in format of research published● Changes in technology
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Global research Academic libraries Research papers library content spend
USA 3,617 2,959,661 $2,375m (NCES)
Japan 1,064 796,807 $319m (LibEcon)
UK 166 784,895 $371m (Lisu)
China circa. 2,703 573,486 -
France 95 548,279 $108m (LibEcon)
Canada circa. 90 414,248 $237m (CARL)
Australia 221 267,134 $236m (CAUL)
India circa. 490 237,364 -
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Research output
● 3.5% pa increase in quantity of research articles published
● Growth in number of journals likely to slow down • Journals sold as collections to library consortia• Difficult to generate revenue from adding a new journal
● Increasingly competitive to get published
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The role of the library● Primary information resource for academic
institutions● Budget holder for acquiring academic research
content● Guide to researchers and students in navigating
an huge quantities of research knowledge
● We think that it is likely to keep it’s role as a filter between excess information and useful knowledge• Increasingly complex landscape, students and researchers
are going to need support
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New models for publishing research - Open Access
● Growth in open access as an alternative model of research communicationTop three OA publishers are growing fast:
- BMC (18k articles in 2009, +21%)
- PLOS (6k articles in 2009, +50%)- Hindawi(4k articles in 2009, +75%)
- 8% of articles published - 4% of articles indexed by ISI 2009
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New Models - SAGE Open
● More government OA mandates coming● Stagnant or declining university serials
budgets: OA eliminates price barriers● Declining department budgets: social
scientists increasingly require outside funding to support research
● More support for OA at university level: COPE
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New formats for publishing research
In an online environment will new formats emerge for publishing research?
- Something between a research article and research monograph
- New product combining content types
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New formats for content
Concise summaries of cutting-edge research, 50 to 125 pages
• bridge between journal articles and a contextual literature review
• report of analytical techniques
• new or emerging topic
• case study or clinical example
• core concepts explained for students
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Changes in technology
● Improved accessibility/discoverability of research
● Richer functionality• User engagement• Increased mobile delivery• Semantic enrichment • Targeted and personalised sites
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User engagement & personalization
● Commenting, discussions● Sharing: bookmarking, facebooking,
tweeting, emailing, blogging● Publisher in turn can communicate with
better understanding of end user
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Community sites
● Methodspace
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Crimspace, Methodspace, Commspace & Socialsciencespace
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Semantic Web
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The future of research communication
Depends on changes in:
● Quantity and spread of research● library resourcing● models of publishing● technology