Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC The Future of Research Communication Karen Phillips January 2011
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC The future of research communication ●Growth of research investment ●Research geography and by discipline ●Role and funding of library ●New models of publishing and product types ●Changes in technology
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Key factors ●The global landscape of research ●The role of the library ●Changes in format of research published ●Changes in technology
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Global research Academic librariesResearch paperslibrary content spend USA3,6172,959,661$2,375m (NCES) Japan1,064796,807$319m (LibEcon) UK166784,895$371m (Lisu) Chinacirca. 2,703573,486- France95548,279$108m (LibEcon) Canadacirca ,248$237m (CARL) Australia221267,134$236m (CAUL) Indiacirca ,364-
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ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC 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
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC 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
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC New models for publishing research - Open Access ●Growth in open access as an alternative model of research communication Top 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
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC 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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ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC 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
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC 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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ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Changes in technology ●Improved accessibility/discoverability of research ●Richer functionality User engagement Increased mobile delivery Semantic enrichment Targeted and personalised sites
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC User engagement & personalization ●Commenting, discussions ●Sharing: bookmarking, facebooking, tweeting, ing, blogging ●Publisher in turn can communicate with better understanding of end user
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Community sites ●Methodspace
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Semantic Web
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC
ECM May 2010 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC The future of research communication ●Growth of research investment ●Research geography and by discipline ●Role and funding of library ●New models of publishing and product types ●Changes in technology