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Scholarly Communication Models: Evolution or Revolution?

Virtual Conference

About the Virtual Conference

Scholarly communication deals with the systems and processes involved in the creation and dissemination of knowledge. Scholars can’t help but have to navigate the complex issues around author rights, access, costs, new models of publishing, peer-review, and compliance with research funder policies. These scholarly communication components are continually evolving along with changes in technical infrastructure, the economics of publishing, knowledge preservation, and social practice.

Learn how scholarly communication models are evolving from the authors’, publishers’, and libraries’ perspectives. The presenters would share and discuss their approach in adapting and navigating the issues surrounding this topic.

NEW! All registrants to this virtual conference will receive a login to the associated Training Thursday on Using Alerting Systems to Ensure OA Policy Compliance to be held on October 1. (Separate registration to the training event only is also available.)  If you are unable to attend the Training Thursday in person, you can view the recording of the session.

Event Sessions

Introduction

Speaker

11:00 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.

Keynote Address: Ten Simple Rules for Changing how Scholars Communicate

Speaker

Philip E. Bourne

Ph.D., FACMI, Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS), Founding Editor in Chief PLOS Computational Biology
National Institutes of Health

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

Speaker

Lars Bjørnshauge

Managing Director
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) and SPARC Europe Director of European Library Relations

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

Speaker

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

Speaker

Erin Braswell

Lead Developer, Center for Open Science
The SHARE Project

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

The role of annotations in scholarly communications

Speaker

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

Speaker

Gregg Gordon

President and CEO
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

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

Speaker

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

Speaker

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

Speaker

Charles Watkinson

Associate University Librarian and Director
University of Michigan Press

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 

Speaker

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

Additional Information

  • Cancellations made by Wednesday, September 16, 2015 will receive a refund, less a $35 cancellation. After that date, there are no refunds.
  • Registrants will receive detailed instructions about accessing the virtual conference via e-mail the Friday prior to the event. (Anyone registering between Monday and the close of registration will receive the message shortly after the registration is received, within normal business hours.) Due to the widespread use of spam blockers, filters, out of office messages, etc., it is your responsibility to contact the NISO office if you do not receive login instructions before the start of the webinar.
  • If you have not received your Login Instruction email by 10AM (ET) on the Tuesday before the webinar, please contact the NISO office or email Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager at jwood@niso.org for immediate assistance.
  • Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the conference. You may have as many people as you like from the registrant's organization view the conference from that one connection. If you need additional connections, you will need to enter a separate registration for each connection needed.
  • If you are registering someone else from your organization, either use that person's e-mail address when registering or contact Juliana Wood to provide alternate contact information.
  • Conference presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to this event webpage following the live conference.
  • Registrants will receive an e-mail message containing access information to the archived conference recording within 48 hours after the event. This recording access is only to be used by the registrant's organization.