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

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

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

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

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

7. Disruption #1: The Economic Model Proved Unsustainable

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

9. Libraries Have Communicated with Faculty about This: Scholarly Communication and Open Access: Research and Publication in Flux (Rutgers University) http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/scholarly_comm/scholarly_comm.shtml Scholarly Communication Crisis (University of Connecticut) http://www.lib.uconn.edu/about/publications/scholarlycommunication.html Scholarly Communication: Crisis and Revolution (University of California, Berkeley) http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/crisis.html Scholarly Publishing Crisis (California State University, San Marcos) http://biblio.csusm.edu/scholarly-publishing-crisis The Crisis in Scholarly Communication (Cornell University) http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/StatementOnCrisis.htm The Crisis in Scholarly Communication (Michigan State University) http://www.lib.msu.edu/features/crisis/ The Crises in Scholarly Communication (University of Colorado at Boulder) http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/dean/scholarlycomm.htm

10. Disruption #2: The World Wide Web

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

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

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

14. 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?

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

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

17. “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

18. Disruption #3: The ‘Open’ Movement

19. disruption: Open Movement power of ‘open’

20. disruption: Open Movement access grows impact

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

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

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

24. Reform

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

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