Disruptions in a complex ecology:

the future of scholarly communications?

Michael JubbResearch Information Network

UKSG: Harrogate14 and 15 April 2014

Purposes of scholarly communications

registering research findings, their timing, and the person(s) responsible

reviewing and certifying findings before publication

disseminating new knowledge preserving a record of findings for the long

term efficiency and effectiveness of research

rewarding researchers for their work

Purposes of scholarly communication (2)

discoverable accessible intelligible assessable usable

Royal Society, Science as an Open Enterprise, 2012

Mechanisms for scholarly communication

oral: lectures, seminars, conference presentations, tele-conferences

written: theses, working papers, pre-prints, books, journal articles, blogs, wikis, emails

public vs restricted audience peer-reviewed/quality-assured or

not?

Players and stakeholders: and their interests

researchers universities and research institutes funders libraries publishers learned societies

The Research Landscape:Funders and Do-ers

Elsevier, International Comparative Performance of the UK Research Base, 2013: a Report for BIS

Sources of funds: international differences

Where research is done

Collaboration

Research Data

Publishers

no. of publishers: c 2k no. of journals: c 28k (10k in WoK,

18k in SCOPUS)

no. of articles: c 2m a year

Publishers (2)revenues (geog): c52% US

c32% EMEAc12% Asia/Pacificc 4% other

revenues (source): 70+%library subs16% corporate4% adverts3% memberships4% other

Mark Ware and Michael Mabe, The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing, 2013

Quality assurance and peer review

who? editors and editorial boards publishers’ editorial staff reviewers

types single-blind, double blind, open

Quality assurance and peer review (2)

issues fairness and bias delays inefficiency (repeat submissions and reviews) data and reproducibility overload

new types soundness not significance cascade portable open and interactive post-publicationMark Ware Peer Review: An Introduction and Guide, Publishing Research Consortium 2013

Open Access: the routes

Fully-OA journals with APC Fully-OA journals no APC Hybrid journals Delayed free access journals Repository pre-print Repository accepted ms

Open Access: Global take-up 2012

Fully-OA journals with APC5.5%

Fully-OA journals no APC 4.2% Hybrid journals 0.5% Delayed free access journals

1.0% Repository pre-print 6.4% Repository accepted ms 5.0%

Service infrastructure subscription agents and other intermediaries navigation:

abstracts and indexes citation services linking services

library systems reference management services semantic enrichment OA infrastructure

green and gold metadata standards text and data mining

Some issues for the future

balance between sustainability and innovation

future of peer review future of journals

Thank you

Questions?

Michael Jubb and Debby Shorley, The Future of Scholarly Communications, Facet, 2013