The Future of Scholarly Communication

ISBN-13: 9781856048170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Deborah Shorley

Opis

A global approach to defining the future of research communication Governments and societies globally agree that a vibrant and productive research community underpins a successful knowledge economy but the context, mechanisms andchannels of research communication are in flux. As the pace of change quickens there needs to be analysis of new trends and drivers, their implications and a future framework. The editors draw together the informed commentary of internationally-renowned experts from all sectors and backgrounds including David Sweeney of HEFCE, Martin Lewis at the University of Sheffield, John Wood of the ACU, Ian Russell at OUP, Vince Smith at the National History Museum, Roger Schonfeld at ITHAKA and Geoffrey Bilder at CrossRef. Split into three sections examining the technological context, changing research behaviour and the roles and responsibilities of other key actors including researchers, funders, universities, research institutes, publishers and libraries, this volume manages to pinpoint all the key agents of change. This is essential reading for all the key players in the scholarly communications landscape including researchers, librarians, publishers, funders, academics and HE institutions.

Spis treści

Introduction: Scholarly communications – disruptions in a complex ecology – Michael Jubb

PART 1: CHANGING RESEARCHER BEHAVIOUR

1. Changing ways of sharing research in chemistry - Henry S. Rzepa
2. Supporting qualitative research in the humanities and social sciences: using the Mass Observation Archive - Fiona Courage and Jane Harvell
3. Researchers and scholarly communications: an evolving interdependency - David C. Prosser
4. Creative communication in a publish or perish’ culture: can postdocs lead the way? - Katie Anders and Liz Elvidge
5. Cybertaxonomy - Vincent S. Smith
6. Coping with the data deluge - John Wood
7. Social media and scholarly communications: the more they change, the more they stay the same? - Ellen Collins
8. The changing role of the publisher in the scholarly communications process - Richard Bennett

PART 2: OTHER PLAYERS: ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

9. The changing role of the journal editor - Mike McGrath
10. The view of the research funder - Robert Kiley
11. Changing institutional research strategies - Ian M. Carter
12. The role of the research library - Mark L. Brown
13. The library users’ view - Roger C. Schonfeld