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Introduction:Introduction:The Scholarly Communication SystemThe Scholarly Communication System
Presenter: Presenter: Richard KearneyRichard Kearney
VALE Scholarly Communication WorkshopMarch 14, 2011
Eventually, Steve looked up. His mother was nowhere in sight and this was certainly no longer the toy department.
Gary Larson
Iterations in the life cycle of scholarshipIdea
research
peer review
data
publicationdissemination
manuscript
preservationexpansion/reformulation
copy editing
copyrights assignment
major participants in that life cycleresearchers
authorsfoundations
scholarly societies
federal agenciesuniversities
publisherslibraries
taxpaying public
AcademicLibraryPublisher
Editor
Peer Reviewers
CreationCreationManuscript & IP
DisseminationDisseminationPublicationPublication
ReformulationReformulation
Disruption #1:
The Economic Model The Economic Model Proved UnsustainableProved Unsustainable
cost
AcademicLibrary
budget
Publisher
Editor
Peer Reviewers
CreationCreationIP
DisseminationDisseminationPublicationPublication
pressure pointspressure points
IP
ReformulationReformulation
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
Disruption #2:
The World Wide WebThe World Wide Web
AcademicLibraryPublisher
Editor
Reviewers
Most scholarly publications still mimic print: linear, formal, publisher-coordinated
Most scholarly publications still mimic print: linear, formal, publisher-coordinated
internetinternet
creationpublicationdisseminationreformulation
scholars are scholars are beginning to exploit beginning to exploit
the power of the Webthe power of the Web
Iterations in the life cycle of scholarshipIdea
research
peer review
data
publicationdissemination
manuscript
preservationexpansion/reformulation
copy editing
copyrights assignment
internetinternet
creationpublicationdisseminationreformulation
PUB
ED
P-R
LIB
What role, then, for What role, then, for publishers and libraries?publishers and libraries?How can we/they add How can we/they add value in a new system?value in a new system?
internetinternet
creationpublicationdisseminationreformulation
Publishers
editor
Peer-reviewers
Libraries
Disaggregation of traditional system is in process…Disaggregation of traditional system is in process…
new models are popping upnew models are popping up
repositories e-journals
working papers data banks
preprints
““Scientific publishers should be terrified Scientific publishers should be terrified that some of the world’s best scientists, that some of the world’s best scientists, people at or near their research peak, …people at or near their research peak, …
are spending hundreds of hours each are spending hundreds of hours each year creating original research content year creating original research content
for their blogs, content that in many for their blogs, content that in many cases would be difficult or impossible to cases would be difficult or impossible to
publish in a conventional journal.publish in a conventional journal.
By comparison, journals are standing still.”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
Disruption #3:
The ‘Open’ Movement The ‘Open’ Movement
disruption:
Open Movement Open Movement
power of ‘open’
disruption:
Open Movement Open Movement
access grows impact
disruption:
Open Movement Open Movement
there’s more than one way to fund a scholarly distribution system
disruption:
Open Movement Open Movement
taxpayers should have access to the research they fund
disruption:
Open Movement Open Movement
universities create new knowledge for the good of society
Ref
orm
Goal: Goal: Build capacity to Build capacity to integrate scholarly integrate scholarly communications communications
awareness and reform into awareness and reform into our work as academic our work as academic
librarianslibrarians
This work was created by Lee Van Orsdel for the ACRL National Conference, Scholarly Communications 101
Workshop and last updated July 16, 2009. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/