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1 Scholarly information – past, present and future Siân Harris Editor, Research Information sian.harris@europascience.com www.researchinformation.info @researchinfo

2 Overview Research libraries Content Search Access Rights Technology Data Conclusions and future

3 Research libraries Shelves of books and journals Online resources Different ways to use space Virtual places rather than physical Changing role of librarians

4 Content E-journals E-books – reference, textbooks, monographs Databases Encyclopaedia Grey literature Videos, images, recordings

5 Content: e-journals From print-like experience to resources that exploit the power of the internet Linking, Tagging, Video and graphical abstracts, Restructuring, Peer review, Timeliness, Commenting, Blogging, Tweeting

6 Content: e-books Scholarly e-books really started to become big news 5 or 6 years ago as several major publishers announced e-book offerings. Functionality, Formats, Range of book types, Sales models, Collections, Chapters

7 Content: Reference Moves from being book to something completely different online

8 Search Search engines A&I databases Library catalogues Discovery tools

9 Access Open-access publishing Repositories Big deals Developing-world access Mobile access

10 Rights Confusion over what people are allowed to do with content Uncertainty over effects on business models Legal disputes over copyright Initiatives to simplify and communicate rights

11 Technology Text mining, data mining Video Access to data Interactive quizzes Social networking Semantic enrichment Evolving formats Data

12 Data mining Finding data/ Format issues Semantic linking Research community reluctance Library and publisher data Open APIs

13 Future

14 Conclusions and future Technology changes Limited budgets Concerns about future role Plenty of innovation going on Watching what’s going on in wider internet world

15 Thank you for listening! sian.harris@europascience.com www.researchinformation.info Twitter: @researchinfo Subscribe to Research Information to keep up to date with trends in scholarly information and research libraries


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