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EMERGING NEEDS IN THE INFORMATION SPACEThe changing landscape of researcher needs and some ways to respond
Phill jones, PhDHead of Publisher Outreach
[email protected]: phillbjones
A Dizzying Array of Technologies
Data Sets
Platform enhancement Methods and
Techniques
References and citations
Collaborations
Networking
Maximizing impact
Professional development
Repeatability
Alternative Impact
Research Management
How Things Used To Be
‘I remember when all of this was… shelves’
The Publisher’s Old Job
• Author creates content
• Quality control and value added
• Journals sold to Libraries
• Reader reads and cites (hopefully)
The Publisher’s New Job
The publisher’s new job is to support researchers at every stage of the research cycle
-Annette Thomas, CEO Macmillan
Which new ideas are good?
1. Does it build engagement with researchers?
2. Does it leverage that engagement?
Opportunities in Open ScienceA body of work begins with an idea and ends when the impact of that idea has been maximized.
Institutional/funding needs
Research management software, reporting
Personal ImpactAltmetrics, Author profiles
Documentation of findingsPublications, Open data
Doing the ResearchDigital Notebooks, Lab Management Software
Getting an IdeaReference Managers, Social Reading
‘Under the Radar’ Examples
F1000 Social Reading
eCat, Projects, LabGuru, Omero
Notebooks and data
Figshare, Portico Data Sets
Bitesize Bio, Kudos Personal Impact
Symplectic Research Management
AlzForum - A model for a society-based community portal?AlzForum has 10,000 members!
Focused on one disease only
• Professional editors
• Subject Specific
• Social reading, post publication peer-review
• Protocol exchange
FigShare: Visualizing and Publishing Data• Allows authors to
disseminate a wide range of
research outputs• Cross-referenced to the related
article to drive traffic
• Provides sophisticated
visualization tools• Supports all research output
formats (microscopy,
engineering, etc)
• Makes it possible to publish
supporting data without
infrastructure upgrades
Overlapping Needs = Connected Products
Documenting
OutputMetrics
and
Publicatio
ns
Disco
very
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Office of Research
Management
LibraryResearcher
Repository
‘Under the Radar’ Examples
Digital Science
Connections between research management software, Symplectic and other portfolio products and institutional repositories
Zotero Reference manager with in-built search and Discovery
PubGet Link-resolver API
Institutions are looking for ways to connect the various stakeholders in coordinated ways
Companies are looking for ways to provide those services
Serving all Stakeholders: Altmetric
• The Altmetric explorer allows Publishers, Libraries and Researches to compare the impact of their articles
• Customized to the needs of each stakeholder
• API available
The Disintermediation of Libraries(and Publishers)
Library budgets as a proportion of total university spending
It is falling!
This is causing gaps in access that particularly affect smaller publishers
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The number of ILL requests from ARLs over recent years
It is also falling!
Researchers are responding to access gaps by looking outside of the library
Patron Driven Acquisition• PDA is emerging as a way for publishers to supply content to libraries on a per-
article basis
• Allows smaller publishers to compete more effectively
• Creates demand driven evidence of need
Get It Now!
Articles on Demand
What Do Publishers Need To Do?1. Look for opportunities to engage with users and
satisfy needs beyond traditional publishing models
2. Select opportunities based on these questions:a. Does it help you to engage?b. Does it leverage that engagement?
3. Remember, you don’t have to do it all yourself
[email protected]: phillbjones
Phill jones, PhDHead of Publisher Outreach
These Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/phillbjones/emerging-needs-in-the-scholarly-publishing-space
