21 June 2005 to 22 June 2005
12:30-14:00
- Venue:
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London
About
International scholarly communications event, June 2005
Jisc International Colloquium about Scholarly Communications and Publishing
The conference was targeted at academics, librarians and public employees across the world with interest in the dissemination of research outputs.
Jisc International colloquium statement
Key Issues/summing up
Speakers and presentations
Programme
Delegates
Further information
Jisc International colloquium statement
A statement of principles emerged for which there was a consensus of support.
- We believe that communication of results is an essential part of the research process and that research outputs should be disseminated widely and readily, giving access to all
- Research results are wide in scope, and access to datasets, background documents and other information are as essential as access to the article
- There are many effective routes to do this; traditional publishing models are only one route
- Of the emerging models, open access journals and subject repositories and institutional repositories show potential and further development and deployment should be encouraged
- Institutions and publishers need to investigate the potential of models that allow a graceful and sustainable transition from old to new paradigms
- It is essential to ensure sustainability of both long term access and preservation of research outputs and related data
- Any research communication model should continue to give researchers at least the reward and recognition they gain from the present model – or improve on it
- Authors or authoring institutions should retain the rights to their intellectual property
- Lack of competition between journals gives us much less "market power" than we would expect from the amount we spend
- We believe that there are benefits from developing stronger international consortia and in sharing information, knowledge and expertise about how we manage our relations with publishers
- We should be free to exchange information about negotiations, prices and terms and conditions between libraries and consortia
- We would like to be open and transparent in our dealings with publishers, and do not wish to be restricted by non-disclosure clauses
Key issues/summing up
Repositories
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Definitions
- Institutional vs subject
- Does it matter?
- What is attractive to authors?
- Not enough examples to illustrate the power of OAI
- What is it trying to do?
- Cream of Science as an example
- Successful because they take a liberal view of copyright - pre 1998
- Can they co-exist with journals?
- Some have already co-existed for several years
- Overlay journals
- Business model: pay for peer review
- Publishers' views
- Fear of being undermined
- When the publishers talk to researchers they find that there is not much interest
Budgeting
- Flexibility is key
- New demands can’t be met from existing funds
- Repository costs
- Paying author fees
- Negotiating with the funders to get more, and to be able to use it differently
Research evaluation exercise
- Role of Peer review
- Scepticism about impact factors
- Mixed international experience
- People chasing what they thought the British system was
- Confusion about international drivers
- Variety of evaluation
- Use other methods
- Peer review
- "Policy impact"
- Use other methods
- Significant disciplinary differences
Key themes from the colloquium
- Growth in output
- Researchers are reading more
- The number of papers submitted is rising all the time
- Implications for quality
- Implications for the business model
- Research funding is rising, library funding is not
The market isn’t working
- Current situation can’t be sustained in the long term
- Business models don’t create money where money doesn’t exists
- Current situation can be manipulated in the short term
- Flexibility is essential
- Big Deals are no longer seen as solve-all
- We are going to see a change
We are in a transitional period
- Improving the current model
- What is the future? Might it be completely different?
- Reform, revolution or the third way
- Seen in evolution of NIH policy
- It is possible to model a transition
- Graduated transition
Value
- What is the value of publishing and information to the research community?
- What is the value of research to the wider community?
- Value of the research to the community
- Negated if it is not accessible
- What will the value and cost to authors of OA publishing really be?
- Will publishers compete on this?
Understanding usage
- Need to have good data
- Both about usage & price
- What is the "street price"?
- Need comparative data to see if deals really are good value for money
- Purpose
- Differences between disciplines
- Context for reading
Different perspectives and agendas between developed and less-developed countries?
- Share a need to be see in citation indexes
- Especially given the selectivity of ISI’s journals list
- Visibility of research is essential to everyone
- Visibility leads to a perception of quality
- What will you do about it?
- How can these ideas be put into action?
- What use can you make of the ideas and relationships you have found here?
- How can you help to promote this?
- Who is your audience?
- How can you convince the research community?
Speakers and presentations
Guylaine Beaudry is director of the Digital Publishing Center of the IT services of the Université de Montréal. She is General Director of Érudit (www.erudit.org), a publishing and dissemination platform for journals, theses, preprints and books, granted by the Québec government. She is also coordinator of Synergies, a project for the creation of a research infrastructure for humanities and social sciences. Specialized in the conception and management of digital publishing projects of scholarly literature, Guylaine Beaudry participates in many national and international forums on this subject (member of the Advisory committee for the electronic legal deposit of the NLC; co-chair of the editorial committee of the colloquium Numérisation et histoire du livre, Lyon 1999 ; president of the ASTED 2000 Congress, member of the pilot committee for the French portal of SHS journals; etc.). She is author of many publications, in particular, co-author of the book Scholarly Journals in the New Digital World, published by University of Calgary Press, originally published in French at the Éditions de la Découverte in Paris. She is presently working on her doctoral thesis at the École pratique des hautes études (Paris) on the impact of the third revolution of the book on the conditions of production, preservation and dissemination of the scientific document.
Bo-Christer Björk (b. 1952) is Professor of Information Systems Science at the Swedish school of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, Finland. He holds degrees from three universities. Prior to his current appointment he spent seven years as professor of Information Technology in Construction at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His main research interests include, E-business and E-collaboration, Electronic document management, Business process and enterprise modelling, Scientific publishing using Internet technology. He is the editor-in-chief of the refereed Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction. He is also the chairman of the Finnish Open Access committee.
Dr. Norka Ruiz Bravo was appointed NIH deputy director for extramural researchin November 2003. She started at NIH in 1990 as a scientific review administrator in the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Since then,she has helda number of positionssuch as program director for the NIGMS Division of Genetics & Development Biology, deputy director and then acting director for the Division of Cancer Biology at the National Cancer Institute, and most recently associate director for extramural activities at NIGMS. After earning a PhD in biology from Yale University, Dr. Ruiz Bravo completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistry and molecular biology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center. Before coming to NIH, Dr. Ruiz Bravo was an assistant professor in the departments of urology and cell biology at Baylor College of Medicine.
Professor Justin Champion was educated at Cambridge University. He has been a member of the Department of History at Royal Holloway since 1990. His research interests cover a range of early modern social, intellectual and cultural themes in cluding the history of the plague, blasphemy and irreligion and the politics of reading. His most recent publication is Republican Learning. John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696-1722 (Manchester, 2003). His interest in IT and leanring technology has been formalised due to his role in the development of the online HIstory BA component of the University of London external degree (since 2001). Acting as both a course developer and Project Manager for the Department of History, he has pursued an interest in both the practical and more theoretical elements of e-learning. For the last two years he has combined his research and teaching activities with Direction of RHUL's Electronic, Executive and External Programmes initiative which has been committed to developing further projects across the Science, Arts and Social Science Faculties. He is also committed to widening participation projects: a keen proponent of public history he has been involved in regular broadcasts on radio and TV - in 2003 he presented the first History series on ITV Kings and Queens; other programmes have explored the role of monarchy in contemporary society (C4) and The Great Plague of London (C4 which won a Royal Television Award, see: http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/heads/outtakes/cham.... The focus of his current interests in e-learning are on the active use of primary sources in encouraging independent learning. A personal website is at http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhra/026/homepage.html
Joel Kotkin is an Irvine Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation, based in Washington, DC. His new book, The City: A Global History, is recently published by Modern Library (a division of Random House) and has appeared on the Los Angeles Times Best Seller list. The book will be published in the UK by Orion Books in July, with Spanish and Chinese editions expected later this year. Mr. Kotkin also serves a senior advisor to the Planning Center, an environmental and planning firm based in Costa Mesa, California, where he is concluding a study on the future of suburbia. He is also a Fellow with the Center for an Urban Future in New York and teaches at the Southern California Institute for Architecture in Los Angeles. The author of six books, Kotkin’s titles include Tribes: How Race Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy, Random House, 1993) and translated into Chinese, Japanese, German and Arabic; The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape, also published by Random House and was on the LA Times Best Seller List for three weeks. Mr. Kotkin is a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, the New Republic, the American Enterprise, the Weekly Standard and the Los Angeles Times. For almost three years he wrote the highly-acclaimed "Grassroots Business" column for the Sunday New York Times Business Section. Over the past two years Mr. Kotkin has written major reports on the future of New York, the Inland Empire region of Southern California, St. Louis, the Great Plains, Los Angeles and Phoenix. He is currently working on a major study on the impact of mobility on urban form for the Reason Foundation. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Mandy, and daughters Ariel and Hannah.
Hugh Look was an independent consultant for many years before joining Rightscom. His consultancy practice covered innovation, business and technology strategies in digital media and organisational change. His clients included publishers, government departments and telecommunications and technology companies. Before becoming a consultant, Hugh held senior management positions at Longman Cartermill (Longman Group's electronic publishing subsidiary) and Learned Information. Since joining Rightscom in 2003, Hugh has mainly worked on Publishing Market Watch, a major year-long study of competitiveness of the European publishing industries. The study is for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise, and its objective is to identify the main issues affecting the publishing industries' competitiveness and ability to modernise and innovate at a time of enormous change in the technical, commercial and social environments within which publishing operates. He has recently lead a team of consultants investigating the potential of new business models for e-journal publishing: commissioned by Jisc, the team developed modelling tools to analyse the alternative models and reported their conclusions in March 2005.
Mr. Abel Laerte Packer is Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME/PAHO/WHO) in São Paulo, Brazil, since March 1999. Brazilian, of nationality, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master’s degree in Library Science from Syracuse University in New York. From 1971 and 1986, he worked as Head of the Data Processing Unit at the Latin American Demographic Center of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA), in Santiago, Chile and as Senior Systems Analyst at Fundação Sistema Estadual de Análise de Dados (SEADE), São Paulo, Brasil. He joined BIREME/PAHO/WHO in September 1986, where he has been in charge of the information systems development for more than 10 years. He has actively participated in the design, development and operation of major BIREME projects, such as the Latin American and Caribbean System on Health Sciences Information, the LILACS database (referencing the Health Sciences literature from Latin American and Caribbean countries), the LILACS/CD-ROM (launched in 1987), the SciELO project – Scientific Electronic Library Online (launched in 1997) and the Virtual Health Library, the current LA&C framework for the technical cooperation in health-related scientific and technical information led by BIREME. He is the author and co-author of several articles in his specialty
Carol Tenopir is a professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the Interim Director of the Center for Information Studies. Her areas of teaching and research include: information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, the information industry, online resources, and the impact of technology on reference librarians and scientists. She is the author of five books, including, Communication Patterns of Engineers, (IEEE/Wiley InterScience, 2004) with Donald W. King.Dr. Tenopir has published over 200 journal articles, is a frequent speaker at professional conferences, and since 1983 has written the "Online Databases" column for Library Journal. She is the recipient of the 1993 Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award from the American Society for Information Science/Institute for Scientific Information and the 2000 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence. She also received the 2002 American Society for Information Science & Technology, Research Award and the 2004 International Information Industry Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Tenopir holds a PhD degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.
Chair Biography
Dr. Tom Graham is University Librarian at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he has introduced a number of electronic information developments. Previously he has worked at the universities of York (Librarian 1984-97), Glasgow, Aberdeen and Hull, and was a member of the Funding Councils’ Libraries Review Group in 1992-93. He was Chairman of SCONUL in 1992-94, and subsequently Chairman of CURL from 2001-2003, and is now Treasurer of the latter. He is Chairman of the Jisc’s Journals Working Group, which has commissioned studies on journal usage and business models for the future. He is a member of both the joint CURL/SCONUL Scholarly Communications Group and the Jisc’s Scholarly Communications Group, which provided evidence to Sir Brain Follett’s Research Support Library Group. He has a wide range of professional interests and has spoken and written about library funding, scholarly communications and document delivery in various forums. Dr Graham is a graduate in History from the University of Glasgow, and maintains his interest in this through his editorship of a bibliography for the Scottish Historical Review. His other interests – apart from his family - are in music (as a violinist and singer), and hill-walking.
Programme
Day 1: Challenges
12.30- 14.00
Registration
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 14.15
Welcome and Introduction: Dr Tom Graham, University Librarian, University of Newcastle
14.15 - 15.15
Keynote: The role of publishing in the research process
Professor Carol Tenopir, Professor of Information Science,
University of Tennessee, USA
15.15 - 15.30
Refreshments
15.30 - 16.00
The UK Perspective: Jisc Business Models
Hugh Look, Senior Consultant, Rightscom
16.00 - 16.30
The Scandanavian approach: Alternative economic models study
Professor Bo-Christer Bjork, Professor of Information Systems Science, HANKEN, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Scandanavia
16.30 - 17.30
Discussion groups: challenges and key barriers to progress
17.30
Close
19.00 - 19.30
Pre-dinner drinks
20.00 onward
Dinner
21.30
After dinner speaker: Joel Kotkin, USA
Day 2: Solutions and joint action
08.45 - 9.00
Review of Day 1:
Hugh Look, Senior Consultant, Rightscom
09.00 - 09.30
South American landscape and state funded model:
Abel L Packer, SciELO, Brazil
09.30 - 10.00
The NIH Public Access Policy, There and Back Again: Dr Norka Ruiz Bravo, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, National Institutes for Health, USA
10.00 - 10.15
Introduction to discussion groups:
Hugh Look, Senior Consultant, Rightscom
10.15 - 10.30
Refreshments
10.30 - 11.25
Discussion groups: Solutions and joint action
11.30 - 12.00
Professor Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Ideas and
Director of Executive, Electronic and External Programmes,
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
12.00 - 12.30
Dr Guylaine Beaudry, Director of Information Processing Division of IT Services, Université de Montréal, Canada and General Director, Érudit
12.30 - 13.15
Next steps and actions: Hugh Look, Rightscom
13.15 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00
Close: Dr Tom Graham, University Librarian, University of Newcastle
Delegates
Guylaine
Beaudry
Université de Montréal
Bo-Christer
Bjork
HANKEN
Rachel
Bruce
Jisc
Justin
Champion
Royal Holloway, University of London
Pat
Crocker
Jisc
Louisa
Dale
Jisc
Berndt
Dugall
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Univ.
Henk
Ellermann
University of Groningen
Lorraine
Estelle
Jisc
Antonio
Fantoni
CIBER
Allan
Foster
Keele University
Johannes
Fournier
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Paola
Gargiulo
CASPUR
Hironobu
Gotoda
NII
Tom
Graham
Chair
Fran
Groen
McGill University
Ebru
Gurbuz
METU Library
Joanna
Harrison
Jisc
Paul
Harwood
Content Complete
Helen
Hayes
University of Edinburgh
Nike
Holmes
Jisc
Kristiina
Hormia-Poutanen
National library
Neil
Jacobs
Jisc Executive
Clare
Jenkins
Imperial College London
Catherine
Jones
CCLRC
Michael
Jubb
Research Libraries Network
Koichi
Katoh
Chiba University Library
Jean
Kempf
Université Lumière Lyon 2
Biljana
Kosanovic
National Library of Serbia
Joel
Kotkin
Fides
Lawton
University of Technology Sydney
Hugh
Look
Rightscom Ltd
Dicky
Maidment-Otlet
Jisc
Marika
Meltsas
ELNET Consortium
Jan
Nikisch
eIFL.net
Sijbolt
Noorda
University of Amsterdam
John
Ober
University of California
Bo
Öhrström
Danish Library Authority
Abel
Packer
SciELO,
Neil
Parkinson
Jisc
Stephen
Pinfield
University of Nottingham
Albert
Prior
Content Complete
Ingegerd
Rabow
Lund University Libraries, Head Office
Malcolm
Read
Jisc
Eloy
Rodrigues
Universidade do Minho
Laurent
Romary
CNRS
Fytton
Rowland
Loughborough University
Norka
Ruiz Bravo
National Institutes of Health
Diann
Rusch-Feja
Humboldt University Berlin
Alberto
Sdralevich
CRUI
Marianna
Seferofa
Faculty of Journalism Moscow State University
Kristina
Smith
Revelation event management Limited
Karmen
Sotosek
National and University Library
Sue
Sparke
Rightscom
Kari
Strange
Royal library, BIBSAM
Geir
Strøm
University of Bergen
Carole
Tenopir
Professor of Information Science
Syun
Tutiya
Chiba University
Francoise
Vandooren
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Susan
Veldsman
Coalition of SA Library Consortia(COSALC)
Jens
Vigen
CERN
Astrid
Wissenburg
ESRC/RCUK
Michel
Woodman
DTI
Hazel
Woodward
Cranfield University
Ingeborg
Zimmermann
University of Zurich / Research Library Irchel
Further information
Zwolle principles
Jisc Q&A on open access
The conference was arranged by Jisc and organised by Dicky Maidment-Otlet and the Communications and Marketing team with special thanks to Jane Charlton, Event Coordinator.