Introduction: The Scholarly Communication System Presenter: Richard Kearney VALE Scholarly Communication Workshop March 14, 2011

Eventually, Steve looked up. His mother was nowhere in sight and this was certainly no longer the toy department. Gary Larson

Iterations in the life cycle of scholarship Idea research peer review data publication dissemination manuscript preservation expansion/reformulation copy editing copyrights assignment

major participants in that life cycle researchers authors foundations scholarly societies federal agencies universities publishers libraries taxpaying public

Academic Library Publisher Editor Peer ReviewersCreation Manuscript & IP Dissemination Publication Reformulation

Disruption #1: The Economic Model Proved Unsustainable

cost Academic Library budget Publisher Editor Peer ReviewersCreation IP Dissemination Publication pressure points IP Reformulation

Libraries Have Communicated with Faculty about This: Scholarly Communication and Open Access: Research and Publication in Flux (Rutgers University) Scholarly Communication Crisis (University of Connecticut) Scholarly Communication: Crisis and Revolution (University of California, Berkeley) Scholarly Publishing Crisis (California State University, San Marcos) The Crisis in Scholarly Communication (Cornell University) The Crisis in Scholarly Communication (Michigan State University) The Crises in Scholarly Communication (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Disruption #2: The World Wide Web

Academic Library Publisher Editor Reviewers Most scholarly publications still mimic print: linear, formal, publisher-coordinated

internet creation publication dissemination reformulation scholars are beginning to exploit the power of the Web

Iterations in the life cycle of scholarship Idea research peer review data publication dissemination manuscript preservation expansion/reformulation copy editing copyrights assignment

internet creation publication dissemination reformulation PUB ED P-R LIB What role, then, for publishers and libraries? How can we/they add value in a new system?

internet creation publication dissemination reformulation Publishers editor Peer-reviewers Libraries Disaggregation of traditional system is in process…

new models are popping up new models are popping up repositories e-journals working papers data banks preprints

“Scientific publishers should be terrified that some of the world’s best scientists, people at or near their research peak, …are spending hundreds of hours each year creating original research content for their blogs, content that in many cases would be difficult or impossible to publish in a conventional journal. By comparison, journals are standing still.” Michael Nielsen, “Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?”, blog post on The future of science, June 29, 2009

Disruption #3: The ‘Open’ Movement

disruption: Open Movement power of ‘open’

disruption: Open Movement access grows impact

disruption: Open Movement there’s more than one way to fund a scholarly distribution system

disruption: Open Movement taxpayers should have access to the research they fund

disruption: Open Movement universities create new knowledge for the good of society

Reform

Goal: Build capacity to integrate scholarly communications awareness and reform into our work as academic librarians

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