Emerging Trends in Scholarly Communication Heather Joseph Executive Director, SPARC ALA Midwinter Meeting Philadelphia, PA January 26, 2014
Our Mission: Expand the distribution of the results of research and scholarship in a way that leverages digital networked technology, reduces financial pressures on libraries, and creates a more open system of scholarly communication.
4 “By open access, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose…” - The Budapest Open Access Initiative – February 14, 2002
Articles Data Educational Resources
So – What’s the Latest?
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Impact Range = 36%-200% (Data: Stevan Harnad and co-workers )
15 Trend Lines: Up
Growth = Good. Now: Emerging Trends to Watch
1. Article Level Metrics
2. New Services to Disaggregate Publishing Process
Authoring Tools
24 FEDERATION …exist alongside traditional publishing
25 FEDERATION …exist alongside traditional publishing
Peer Review Services.
27 FEDERATION …exist alongside traditional publishing
28 FEDERATION …exist alongside traditional publishing
Distribution/Display Tools
30 FEDERATION …exist alongside traditional publishing
31 FEDERATION …exist alongside traditional publishing
32 FEDERATION …exist alongside traditional publishing
Storage and Serving
Social Networking for Science and Scholarship
Incentivizing Peer Review
Post Publication Peer Review
Dealing with Data
Policy
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