About This Webinar
For an industry that just celebrated its 350th anniversary, scholarly communications is in the midst of a period of disruption. Long established companies are joining new start-ups in fostering a culture of innovation and iteration in this once staid community. New applications, tools and even new content forms are being tested and adopted by researchers and library patrons. Understanding the drivers of this change, and its broader effects will be vital to planning near- and long-term technology investments, staffing needs, and training investments.
This session will explore the organizational and cultural characteristics that support innovation from the perspective of both new and traditional organizations. It will also explore the impacts the culture of start-ups has already had on scholarly communications and what might be forthcoming from this innovative explosion.
Event Sessions
Small is Beautiful: The Rise of Niche Services and the Breakdown of Silos
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The past decade has seen the domination of 'supersites' for researchers, ranging from large content platforms, such as ScienceDirect and PLOS ONE, through to broad networking platforms such as Researchgate and Mendeley -- often with multi-million dollar investments behind them. Following in the shadow of these super sites, a quiet revolution is now taking place. Small, independent start-ups are on the rise, each tackling niche problems in scholarly communications, often focused on the needs of specific communities. In this talk, Melinda examines this trend, speculates on the potential impact of this on the 'super sites' we are familiar with today, and outlines a vision for a future of highly tailored, interoperable services for the research community, driven by innovation from start-ups.
The web is changing what we publish, how we publish, and what happens after publication
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The world wide web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee to facilitate communication between researchers. A quarter of a century later, the web is beginning to deliver on its promise for academics. Tech-savvy organizations are shifting the landscape. "What we publish" is changing with repositories (figshare, Dryad, protocols.io). "How we publish" is changing with the opening up of peer reviews (F1000 Research, PeerJ, eLife), preprints (bioRxiv, arXiv, F1000 Research), and the mega-journal (PLOS ONE, F1000 Research, PeerJ, and others). Equally exciting the tranformation of what happens after publication: post-publication peer review (PubPeer, Twitter, blogs), automated literature discovery (GoogleScholar, PubChase, Readcube, Mendeley), and versioning (F1000 Research, bioRxiv, fishare, Dryad, protocols.io). Combined, these are rapidly encroaching on the traditional roles of the publisher - facilitating peer review, enabling communication of results, and ensuring discovery by the readers. The tech-driven shift is both an opportunity and a threat to the 350-year-old publishing industry.
Doubling Up: Leveraging the Cultures of Innovation and Librarianship to Transform Scholarly Communication
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Libraries and librarians have played a leading, if sometimes unsung, role in educational, advocacy, and technological efforts to increase access to and positively affect the reusable value of scientific and scholarly information. The culture of our profession is imbued with the same values influencing dramatic changes in scholarly communication practices and technologies. In this talk, Robin will explore the roles of libraries and librarians as creators, facilitators, consumers, and gatekeepers of innovation, with an emphasis on potential opportunities and tensions.
Additional Information
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Cancellations made by Wednesday, February 3, 2016 will receive a refund, less a $35 cancellation. After that date, there are no refunds.
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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.
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Conference presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to this event webpage following the live conference.
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