ETD 2012 – PERUJOAN K. LIPPINCOTT

COALITION FOR NETWORKED INFORMATIONWWW.CNI.ORG

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Future Scholars and Professionals: The Opportunities of

ETDs in Scholarly and Professional Communication

My Perspective: Coalition for Networked Information

www.cni.org

Coalition for Networked InformationCNI

Focuses on innovations in the digital environment for research, teaching and learning

Promotes partnerships between and among sectors, e.g. librarians, information technologists, faculty, presses, media producers

Shares information broadlyAn early supporter of ETDs

Focus

What will our graduates be doing as professionals?

How is research and scholarship changing?

What can we do to support the evolving needs of graduate students and future professionals and scholars?

Alif Eyiter http://www.flickr.com/photos/alpha_auer/3836628558/

Graduate Studies Trends

“Taught” graduate students have increased 77% in the UK in the past 11 years

They constitute 20% of UK H.E. students in contrast to research graduate students at 5%

Many “taught” graduate students are foreign students in Master’s programs

www.UniversitiesUK.ac.uk

After the Ph.D.

Report from U.S. Council of Graduate Schools

Of all new doctorate recipients, 1/3 enter government, business, or non-profit jobs after the degree

In health, engineering, & science, over ½ work outside of academe after the Ph.D.

http://pathwaysreport.org/

After the Ph.D.

At the American Historical Association’s 2012 conference, the President and Executive Director urged graduate students and departments to “get over” the idea that it’s a tenure-track job or failure.

They ask why not train graduate students to take advantage of other opportunities (often involving technology)

Reported by Jennifer Howard in The Chronicle of Higher Education online, January 8, 2012

History Ph.D.s in Academic Jobs

Reported by Jennifer Howard in The Chronicle of Higher Education online, January 8, 2012

Alternate career paths

There is increasing recognition that many graduate students will not become full-time faculty

Digital information skills can help students find jobs in administration, software development, grant writing, government, and project management

Sandia Labshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sandialabs/4155733531/

Our graduates are all members of theinformation society

Students will need to collaborate, innovate, communicate

They will need information and technical skills to use in discipline-related work

It is not common for the thesis and dissertation process to support development of these skills

NDLTD Innovative ETD Winners 2012

http://www.ndltd.org/events_and_awards/awards/ndltd-etd-awards-2012-winners

US NASA Scientific VisualizationUS NASA Scientific Visualization

US Museum of Modern ArtUS Museum of Modern Art

As professionals or academics, they will all produce digital content

http://www.moma.org/explore/mobile/iphoneapphttp://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/

SciencesSciences The Fourth ParadigmThe Fourth Paradigm

Emphasis on data-driven research

Ability to mine and manipulate huge quantities of data

Capability to combine data from disparate projects in new ways

How is research and scholarship changing?

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/default.aspx

Sloan Digital Sky SurveySloan Digital Sky Survey Human Genome ProjectHuman Genome Project

Data-intensive research

http://www.sdss.org/ http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml

Humanities & Social SciencesHumanities & Social Sciences

Vectors Journal of Culture and TechnologyVectors Journal of Culture and Technology

Increased use of multi-media

Data-mining for language, trends

Exploring geographic relationships

Increased reliance on digital data and tools

How is research and scholarship changing?

http://vectors.usc.edu/issues/index.php?issue=6

Data-driven reserach

Hypercities

http://hypercities.com/

Maps a rich array of historical, geo-referenced data

Lima, Ollantaytambo, New York, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Shanghai, and others

Support for data-driven scholarship and research

Many faculty continue to use traditional research methods

Graduate students may need support in the process of digital scholarship, leading to a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation

Librarians and IT professionals can provide support

UBC Library http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubclibrary/5164356763/

What can NDLTD members do to accelerate change?

Leverage the ETD process as an experience in digital authorship

Work within your institutional, college, or departmental culture to develop mechanisms to educate graduate students about digital authorship

www.ndltd.org

Open AccessOpen Access Creative Commons licensingCreative Commons licensing

Open Access and Intellectual Property

http://creativecommons.org/choose/http://www.arl.org/sparc/openaccess/index.shtml

Formats, standards, preservation

http://etd.vt.edu/howto/accept.html http://www.metaarchive.org/

Data management workshopsData management workshops

Data management guidelinesData management guidelines

Data management

http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/datamanagement/

Technology experimental spacesTechnology experimental spaces

U. Calgary Library - CanadaU. Calgary Library - Canada

Facilities and services that support graduate students

Affiliation with a particular department or institute is not required

Ownership of technology or grant funds are not required to do research

Expert assistance is readily available

Faculty/student involvement in planning a new library facility/technology/services

“We can’t wait for the Hunt Library to open so we can further bolster our program by using the whole ecosystem of visualization spaces in the building,” Michael Young, Assoc. Prof. Computer Science whose classes design large-scale games.

North Carolina State U., Raleigh, NC, USA

http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/2012/04/25/handing-out-the-keys-to-the-spaceship-changing-the-game-at-nc-state-university/

Digital Scholarship Centers support graduate work

Offer a range of servicesOffer a range of services

Fellowships Cohort of students Daily interaction with

staffWorkshops, courses,

certificate programsOne-on-one

consultationOnline tutorialsCreate a community

U. Virginia Scholars’ LabU. Virginia Scholars’ Lab

http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/

Sponsored summer instituteSponsored summer institute UCLA LibraryUCLA Library

Facilities and services that support graduate students

Facilities and services that support graduate students

http://library.columbia.edu/content/libraryweb/indiv/dssc.html

Everyone has a role

Help prepare the scholars and professionals of tomorrow

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