CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Serving the Digital Scholarship Needs of the University Rebecca Kennison Columbia University Libraries February 12, 2010

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Key Principles Technology adoption and innovation do change roles People can now work whenever and wherever IT support will become increasingly decentralized Global and interdisciplinary collaboration is a given

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Trends in Academia Digital innovation in all disciplines Increased awareness concerning IP Reconsideration of academic reward system while still embracing traditional publications Rethinking peer review, credentialing Global collaboration and sharing Need for robust data management

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU How quickly the world changes! This map, drawn by Randall Munroe in 2007, represented the most popular online communities of the time as islands and continents. Land size was based roughly on the number of users of each service. URL:

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU And, yes … even academia will change!

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Slide from presentation by Michael Lascarides, New York Public Library, “Uncovering Stories,” November 19, 2009

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Slide from presentation by Michael Lascarides, New York Public Library, “Uncovering Stories,” November 19, 2009

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Grew up with personal computers Slide from presentation by Michael Lascarides, New York Public Library, “Uncovering Stories,” November 19, 2009

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Always had the Web Slide from presentation by Michael Lascarides, New York Public Library, “Uncovering Stories,” November 19, 2009

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Always had media abundance (e.g., iPod) Slide from presentation by Michael Lascarides, New York Public Library, “Uncovering Stories,” November 19, 2009

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Technologies in Mainstream Next 12 months: mobile computing, open content Next 2-3 years: e-books, simple augmented reality Next 4-5 years: gesture-based computing, visual data analysis Larry Johnson et al The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium. URL: Report.pdf

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Ted Schadler Forrester Research: Collaboration Needs Will Fuel a Smartphone Surge. URL: eds_will_fuel_smartphone_surge/q/id/48066/t/2

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Collaboration Tools Ted Schadler Forrester Research: Collaboration Needs Will Fuel a Smartphone Surge. URL: _fuel_smartphone_surge/q/id/48066/t/2

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Role of Collaboration Platform Expands “How is your firm using collaboration platforms (e.g., Microsoft SharePoint, Lotus Notes)?” Source: Forrester Research, Enterprise and SMB Software Survey, North America and Europe, Q4 2009

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Web 2.0 Correlates Broadly to Collaboration Platforms “For which of the following activities is your firm currently using Web 2.0 tools and technologies?” Source: Forrester Research, Enterprise and SMB Software Survey, North America and Europe, Q4 2009

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Observations Ready information at fingertips, any time, anywhere Do-it-yourself search and discovery (a.k.a. research) Experts need not be acquaintances, local Information most likely to come from supervisors, colleagues, friends and provided electronically

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Today’s Undergrads, Tomorrow’s Grad Students Find initial information through course readings and Google Turn to professors and instructors when they need further guidance Use library resources on their own and rarely interact with library staff (80% never do) Alison Head and Michael Eisenberg Project Information Literacy Progress Report: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age.

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Today’s Grad Students, Tomorrow’s Junior Faculty Find literature almost exclusively through professors’ guidance and via their own searches – almost never from a librarian Are concerned about losing data, but rarely do anything about it Learn new technology by trial and error and from peers, not manuals or experts Ryan Randall et al The Next Generation of Academics: A Report on a Study Conducted at the University of Rochester. URL:

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Today’s Junior Faculty, Tomorrow’s Tenured Faculty Use librarians only to order materials, rarely visit library Often actively discouraged from pursuing digital projects, told to focus on traditional publication routes (monographs, peer-reviewed journals with high impact factors) Very keen to have their digital work rewarded, but will do what is necessary for tenure Wish senior faculty would blaze trail more Much more willing to share publicly ongoing research, published research Insist when they are senior faculty, they will take risks, allow more risks to be taken, esp. as traditional publication routes become more restricted and restrictive (e.g., monographs, only certain journals) Diane Harley et al Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines. URL:

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Today’s Faculty Very rarely go to the library, and when there never use librarians Find formal published proceedings useless, but like Web conferences Want help with Web design and support, in creation of online publications (monographs, journals) Wish institution would provide clear guidance for tenure, promotion Diane Harley et al Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines. URL:

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU “The conclusion I came to was that change to the status quo was a really hard sell because the senior people were too self-important to want to change, and the junior people were too frightened to want to change. That’s a pretty good formula for things not changing.” − UC History Professor Diane Harley et al Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines. URL:

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Stanford E-Dissertations Immediately available: 36 out of 60 6-mo embargo: 10 out of 60 1-yr embargo: 9 out of 60 2-yr embargo: 5 out of 60 Full text eventually publicly available: 47 out of 60 Creative Commons non-commercial attribution license: 52 out of 60 ronic-dissertation-folo html

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU What Do Researchers Want? Stable storage Secure collaboration “Dead simple” digital tools that can be or become natural part of workflow Wide dissemination of work (as long as properly rewarded)

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Digital Resources Used Nancy Maron and Kirby Smith, Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication. URL:

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU What Do They Want from Libraries? Global e-access to publications, databases Conservation, data migration/preservation Metadata standards, taxonomies, ontologies Digitization of research materials Archiving, curation, dissemination of scholarly output of all types Technical support – GIS, computational data analysis, visualization, multimedia publishing

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Addressing the Needs Digital repositories Digitization Digital collections, digital projects Virtual research environments Information commons

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU What We’re Doing at CDRS Research repository Conferences and video services Journals Online books Scholarly Communication Program

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Research Repository

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Repository Outreach Department chairs and select faculty Center directors and select faculty Follow-up focused on grey literature, theses, research data for biomedical Editors-in-chief Conference organizers Discussions with Graduate School of Arts and Sciences about dissertations

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Conferences Caste and Contemporary India 2009 Cities in Revolt: The Dutch-American Atlantic, ca Columbia Undergraduate Science Symposium Cultural Formations The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research 2010 Women in Silent Film

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Journals Awaaz: The Voice of South Asia Columbia Business Law Review Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development Cultural Formations Journal of Anthropological Research Journal of Gender and Law National Black Law Journal

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Online Book Project

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Scholarly Communication Program Information about issues (e.g., NIH) Coordination of copyright talks Administration of Columbia OA Publication Fund Research Without Borders speaker series

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU 2010 Projects Self-deposit for Academic Commons, RSS feed widget for Web sites Secure collaboration platform Electronic portfolio Women Film Pioneers wiki Additional journals Conferences New Scholarly Communication site

CDRS.COLUMBIA.EDU Let’s Talk! Rebecca Kennison, Director Center for Digital Research and Scholarship Columbia University 201 Lehman Library International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street New York, NY Tel.: Web site: