The Future of Research
Communication
Karen Phillips
January 2011
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The future of research communication
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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
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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
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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 communication
Top 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
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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
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Semantic Web
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The future of research communication
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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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Singapore | Washington DC