Future Scholars and Professionals:
The Opportunities of ETDs in Scholarly and
Professional Communication
ETD 2012 – PERU
JOAN K. LIPPINCOTT
COALITION FOR NETWORKED INFORMATION
WWW.CNI.ORG
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
My Perspective: Coalition for Networked Information
www.cni.org
Coalition for Networked Information
CNI
 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 broadly
 An 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
1900
•69%
Post-1952
•80%
2012
•60%
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 Labs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandialabs/4155733531/
Our graduates are all members of the
information 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
As professionals or academics, they will all produce digital
content
US NASA Scientific
Visualization
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/
US Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/explore/mobile/iphoneapp
How is research and scholarship changing?
The Fourth Paradigm
Sciences
 Emphasis on data-
driven research
 Ability to mine and
manipulate huge
quantities of data
 Capability to combine
data from disparate
projects in new ways
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/default.aspx
Data-intensive research
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
http://www.sdss.org/
Human Genome Project
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/
Human_Genome/home.shtml
How is research and scholarship changing?
Humanities & Social
Sciences
Vectors 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
http://vectors.usc.edu/issues/index.php?issue=6
Data-driven
reserach
Hypercities
http://hypercities.com/
Maps a rich array of
historical, georeferenced 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 Access and Intellectual Property
Open Access
http://www.arl.org/sparc/openaccess/index.shtml
Creative Commons
licensing
http://creativecommons.org/choose/
Formats, standards, preservation
http://etd.vt.edu/howto/accept.html
http://www.metaarchive.org/
Data management
Data management
workshops
http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu
Data management
guidelines
http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/datamanagement/
Facilities and services that support graduate
students
Technology experimental
spaces
 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
U. Calgary Library Canada
“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 largescale games.
North Carolina State U.,
Raleigh, NC, USA
Faculty/student involvement in
planning a new library
facility/technology/services
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 services
U. Virginia Scholars’ Lab
 Fellowships
 Cohort of students
 Daily interaction with staff
 Workshops, courses,
certificate programs
 One-on-one
consultation
 Online tutorials
 Create a community
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/
Facilities and services that support graduate
students
Sponsored summer
institute
UCLA Library
Facilities and services that support graduate
students
http://library.columbia.edu/content/libraryweb/indiv/dssc.html
Everyone has a role
Librarians
IT Staff
Faculty
• Develop
services
• Standards,
preservation
• Repository
• Instruction
• Provide
infrastructure
• Standards
• Encourage
new forms of
scholarship
• Promote
Open Access
Help prepare the scholars and professionals of
tomorrow
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Thank you!
Gracias!
JOAN K. LIPPINCOTT
JOAN@CNI.ORG
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