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Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DC
The Future of Research Communication
Karen PhillipsJanuary 2011
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The future of research communication
● Growth of research investment ● Research geography and by discipline● Role and funding of library● New models of publishing and product
types● Changes in technology
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Key factors
● The global landscape of research● The role of the library● Changes in format of research published● Changes in technology
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Global research Academic libraries Research papers library content spend
USA 3,617 2,959,661 $2,375m (NCES)
Japan 1,064 796,807 $319m (LibEcon)
UK 166 784,895 $371m (Lisu)
China circa. 2,703 573,486 -
France 95 548,279 $108m (LibEcon)
Canada circa. 90 414,248 $237m (CARL)
Australia 221 267,134 $236m (CAUL)
India circa. 490 237,364 -
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Research output
● 3.5% pa increase in quantity of research articles published
● Growth in number of journals likely to slow down • Journals sold as collections to library consortia• Difficult to generate revenue from adding a new journal
● Increasingly competitive to get published
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The role of the library● Primary information resource for academic
institutions● Budget holder for acquiring academic research
content● Guide to researchers and students in navigating
an huge quantities of research knowledge
● We think that it is likely to keep it’s role as a filter between excess information and useful knowledge• Increasingly complex landscape, students and researchers
are going to need support
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New models for publishing research - Open Access
● Growth in open access as an alternative model of research communicationTop three OA publishers are growing fast:
- BMC (18k articles in 2009, +21%)
- PLOS (6k articles in 2009, +50%)- Hindawi(4k articles in 2009, +75%)
- 8% of articles published - 4% of articles indexed by ISI 2009
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New Models - SAGE Open
● More government OA mandates coming● Stagnant or declining university serials
budgets: OA eliminates price barriers● Declining department budgets: social
scientists increasingly require outside funding to support research
● More support for OA at university level: COPE
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New formats for publishing research
In an online environment will new formats emerge for publishing research?
- Something between a research article and research monograph
- New product combining content types
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New formats for content
Concise summaries of cutting-edge research, 50 to 125 pages
• bridge between journal articles and a contextual literature review
• report of analytical techniques
• new or emerging topic
• case study or clinical example
• core concepts explained for students
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Changes in technology
● Improved accessibility/discoverability of research
● Richer functionality• User engagement• Increased mobile delivery• Semantic enrichment • Targeted and personalised sites
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User engagement & personalization
● Commenting, discussions● Sharing: bookmarking, facebooking,
tweeting, emailing, blogging● Publisher in turn can communicate with
better understanding of end user
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Community sites
● Methodspace