1. TRANSFORMING ACADEMIC RESEARCH WITH DIGITALLY ENABLED SCHOLARSHIP
Randolph Hall
Vice President, Research
Professor, Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

2. Threats

3. Disruption in Intellectual Property Producing Industries
News
Music
Book Publishing
Magazine Publishing
Motion Pictures
Universities
Content Can be Digitized

4. Other Institutions Do Everything Universities Do
Advanced Education
Research
Clinical Care
Innovation
Are We Sufficiently Agile to Meet the Competition in All of These Areas?

6. Universities Need to Move Beyond the Age of the Typewriter
Institutions and Culture Can Discourage Digital Scholarship and Fail to Reward Innovators

7. Our Traditions Peer reviewed print publications
Products memorialized, frozen in time
Recognition of individual accomplishments, as viewed by others
Focus on one’s own (sub)discipline or academic department
Contemplation

8. New Media

9. Access

10. Metrics

11. Collaboration

12. Sharing

13. Repositories

14. Peer Review

15. Tenure

16. We Must Innovate in How We do Research
Access
New Media
Metrics
We Must Innovate in How We do Research
Repositories
Collaboration
Peer Review
Sharing
Tenure

17. What Technology Can Do
Information distributed & shared, quickly & cheaply
Enriched media with moving images, interactivity
Easier to find and retrieve desired information
Easier to expand research networks well beyond home institution
Automated methods to assess relevance and significance of information & sources
Archives can be dynamic and collaborative

18. Effects
Fast
Collaborative
Dynamic
Individualized

19. Do University Traditions Stand in the Way of Our Mission to Expand Knowledge, for the Benefit of Society?

21. Institutions, Infrastructure and Culture

22. Attribution

23. Principles

24. Repository Policy
Encourages the creation of repositories that provide access, for use in future research, to data and human biospecimens.
USC owns all human biospecimens
Human subject specimens/data may not be sold for profit
Consent topics: re-contact, return of medically relevant results, inform donors they are not compensated, withdrawal from repository, informed of future use

25. Measurement for Tenure “For Universities, the challenge will be ensuring that scholars who are making more and more of their material online will be fairly judged in hiring and promotion decisions”

26. Tenure
“recognizes and supports a variety of styles of scholarship, both independent and collaborative”

27. Tenure: Digital Scholarship
“UCAPT welcomes innovative approaches to scholarship”

28. Scalar: Born Digital Publishing

31. Collaboration Fund Environmental Sustainability
Free Radical Biology and Medicine
Brain Health in Urban Environments
Contemporary Working Group
Civics and Social Media
Technology and Innovation in Pediatrics
Americanize with Good Health
Health Systems Improvement
Biodiversity and Ecology
Plasticity/Repair in Neurodegenerative Disorders
STEM Education Pipeline Consortium
Empirical Legal Studies
Game Theory and Human Behavior
Integrative Health Research & Education
Spatial Science
Interactive Media in Healthcare
Microbiome

32. USC Software Initiatives
Administrative Systems: TARA (research), HR, financial, medical records, …
Digital USC
Licensed Academic Software Applications
Data Storage/Access
Specialized Data Sets

33. TARA Portal

35. Software Categories
Statistical (SAS, SPSS, STATA, JMP, NVivo, Atlas.ti)
Spatial (ESRI…)
Bioinformatics (Partek Genomics, Galaxy, Ingenuity…)
Creative (Office, Adobe …)
Authoring (Scalar, Public Knowledge Product, Sophie)
Reference Management (Endnote, Refworks)

36. What Drives Our Purchases
Expressed faculty desire
Clear connection to research and/or education
Identifiable payers (grants, departments, schools, subvention, libraries, ITS)
Identifiable owner to maintain
Ability to support
Price sensitive

37. Biggest Issue Today? Data storage, access, archival Cloud storage?
Research repositories?
Collaborative models?
Privacy and security?
Disaster recovery?

38. Themes Technology changes how research is done
Reinvent to stay competitive
Organic collaboration
Institutions, infrastructure, culture will all change

39. New Meets Old

40. Technology Will Make Us More Creative and Collaborative