Scholarly Communication Models: Evolution or Revolution?

Introduction

11:00 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.

Keynote Address: Ten Simple Rules for Changing how Scholars Communicate

11:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

One day I sat down and wrote down what I did that day as an academic. Having done so I realized I had only been trained for about 10% of my effort that day; the rest I had learnt on the job through making mistakes. Could we do better? The Ten Simple Rules professional development series [1} was the result. Digestible advice for addressing those nagging professional development needs. I am pleased by the collaborative success that series has had. So much so, we even have an entry Ten Simple Rules for Writing Ten Simple Rules. Feeling heady, it got me thinking about whether there were Ten Simple Rules for Changing How Scholars Communicate. There are. By the time I am done you will be glad there are not 42.

Open: Much more than a different business model

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. 

What does it take to unfold the promises of open access? What should be changed and who are or - should be - the change agents? So far what we have seen is the beginning of profound changes in how scholars communicate their findings and how they are rewarded. What is needed is a deep cultural change in many aspects of how academia works. 

Whose job is it anyway? Changing roles and responsibilities for research communication

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. 

Traditionally, it was the publisher’s job to ensure that research publications got found and read. Now, with some 2 million new articles being published online every year, it’s getting harder for authors to be sure their work will get any attention. In this talk, Melinda will explore the changing nature of content marketing – reviewing the new channels that are available and the tactics that publishers are using to help engage readers. She will then build on this to paint a broader picture of the changing role of authors, their universities, funders, learned societies and the media in the effective promotion and communication of research findings.

Lunch Break

1:00 p.m. - 1:35 p.m.

Preview of NISO Training Thursday: Using Alerting Systems to Ensure OA Policy Compliancee

1:35 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

The role of annotations in scholarly communications

1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. 

Annotation is rapidly being integrated into new open source tools and software libraries and adopted by a diverse cross-section of scholars, scientists, educators and others. The potential is to create a new layer over the web as we know it, enabling a rich set of interactive capabilities that until now have not been possible. This talk will provide an overview of the history behind annotation as an essential idea of the web, demonstrate some of the ways its being used and suggest plans for further development

The Responsibilities (not Roles) of Repositories and Non-traditional Outlets

2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. 

There is a revolution afoot in scholarly communications. But, it’s not the one most people think of first - Open Access. The storming of the Scholarly Bastille - user centric publishing - will free very few prisoners but will unleash massive transformation that can not be controlled by any one entity. There will be a ground swell of change and repositories and other non-traditional outlets will play a critical role. More importantly, they need to understand and realize their responsibilities for all of us to benefit.

Afternoon Break

2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Libraries as Partners in Sustainable Campus-Based Publishing and Scholarly Communications

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 

As publishers adapt to changes in the production, distribution, and consumption of scholarly communication, sustainability is a key concern. Librarians have emerged as leaders and partners in a range of new sustainable publishing initiatives, including developing OA business models, streamlining production processes, and identifying productive collaborations. This presentation will discuss a range of new and ongoing publishing initiatives with a focus on how they contribute to a more diverse, technology-rich, and sustainable publishing ecosystem.

Use Modern Metrics to Tell the Stories of Your Research

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. 

The research and communication environment is changing. Specifically, the types of output that researchers are creating and the ways and methods others are interacting with that output are both changing rapidly. Luckily, technology has caught up so you can now discover and tell the stories of research. By finding, categorizing and analyzing modern metrics, you can understand the narrative, empower faculty through data and improve scholarly identity. In this talk you can see that you can move far beyond citations on articles to discover the scholarly conversation. For example, researchers are sharing their research in other ways. They are creating and sharing datasets, conference presentations, videos, books and many more. People are interacting with this by downloading and viewing it, bookmarking or “favoriting” it, writing blog posts or embedding it in Wikipedia articles, tweeting or “liking” it. All of this activity about all of this research output adds up to narratives that are out there to be discovered and shared. It is increasingly important for scholarly communication professionals to be able to tell the stories of the research of their early-career researchers, newly created research and everything else. This session will cover all of this and more.

So Now What? Some Concluding Thoughts on Takeaways and Themes

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. 

In the context of the rapidly changing ecosystem described by the speakers, what strategies should we adopt as information professionals. What new challenges are emerging? Are there opportunities for collaboration or new products to address these? Charles Watkinson will get the Roundtable Discussion going with some takeways from the day.

Roundtable Discussion 

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Moderated by: Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO