Post on 11-May-2015
Disruptions in a complex ecology:
the future of scholarly communications?
Michael JubbResearch Information Network
UKSG: Harrogate14 and 15 April 2014
Purposes of scholarly communications
registering research findings, their timing, and the person(s) responsible
reviewing and certifying findings before publication
disseminating new knowledge preserving a record of findings for the long
term efficiency and effectiveness of research
rewarding researchers for their work
Purposes of scholarly communication (2)
discoverable accessible intelligible assessable usable
Royal Society, Science as an Open Enterprise, 2012
Mechanisms for scholarly communication
oral: lectures, seminars, conference presentations, tele-conferences
written: theses, working papers, pre-prints, books, journal articles, blogs, wikis, emails
public vs restricted audience peer-reviewed/quality-assured or
not?
Players and stakeholders: and their interests
researchers universities and research institutes funders libraries publishers learned societies
The Research Landscape:Funders and Do-ers
Elsevier, International Comparative Performance of the UK Research Base, 2013: a Report for BIS
Sources of funds: international differences
Where research is done
Collaboration
Research Data
Publishers
no. of publishers: c 2k no. of journals: c 28k (10k in WoK,
18k in SCOPUS)
no. of articles: c 2m a year
Publishers (2)revenues (geog): c52% US
c32% EMEAc12% Asia/Pacificc 4% other
revenues (source): 70+%library subs16% corporate4% adverts3% memberships4% other
Mark Ware and Michael Mabe, The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing, 2013
Quality assurance and peer review
who? editors and editorial boards publishers’ editorial staff reviewers
types single-blind, double blind, open
Quality assurance and peer review (2)
issues fairness and bias delays inefficiency (repeat submissions and reviews) data and reproducibility overload
new types soundness not significance cascade portable open and interactive post-publicationMark Ware Peer Review: An Introduction and Guide, Publishing Research Consortium 2013
Open Access: the routes
Fully-OA journals with APC Fully-OA journals no APC Hybrid journals Delayed free access journals Repository pre-print Repository accepted ms
Open Access: Global take-up 2012
Fully-OA journals with APC5.5%
Fully-OA journals no APC 4.2% Hybrid journals 0.5% Delayed free access journals
1.0% Repository pre-print 6.4% Repository accepted ms 5.0%
Service infrastructure subscription agents and other intermediaries navigation:
abstracts and indexes citation services linking services
library systems reference management services semantic enrichment OA infrastructure
green and gold metadata standards text and data mining
Some issues for the future
balance between sustainability and innovation
future of peer review future of journals
Thank you
Questions?
Michael Jubb and Debby Shorley, The Future of Scholarly Communications, Facet, 2013