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Scholarly information – past, present and future Siân Harris Editor, Research Information sian.harris@europascience.com www.researchinformation.info @researchinfo
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Overview Research libraries Content Search Access Rights Technology Data Conclusions and future
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Research libraries Shelves of books and journals Online resources Different ways to use space Virtual places rather than physical Changing role of librarians
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Content E-journals E-books – reference, textbooks, monographs Databases Encyclopaedia Grey literature Videos, images, recordings
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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
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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
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Content: Reference Moves from being book to something completely different online
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Search Search engines A&I databases Library catalogues Discovery tools
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Access Open-access publishing Repositories Big deals Developing-world access Mobile access
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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
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Technology Text mining, data mining Video Access to data Interactive quizzes Social networking Semantic enrichment Evolving formats Data
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Data mining Finding data/ Format issues Semantic linking Research community reluctance Library and publisher data Open APIs
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Future
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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
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