‘Cracks’ in the scholarly communications system: Insights from a longitudinal international study of early career researchers

• 170 early career researchers interviewed three times over 2 years, have uniquely contributed towards a stress test of scholarly communications and cracks have been identified.
• The perfect storm created by the convergence of millennial values and the pandemic appears to have fast-forwarded the cracking process, perhaps, for the good.
• The cracks in question are: (1) peer review; (2) reputational assessment; (3) unethical/questionable practices; (4) collaboration; (5) networking.

     

Making the Most of What We Have Got: Enhancing the RADAR Repository to Support Research Planning

ABSTRACT

This article discusses how RADAR, the institutional repository (IR) at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), has been modified to house an Annual Research Planning (ARP) template. A case study on the implementation of this research planning tool will outline the role that a repository and its staff can play in supporting individuals, enhancing processes, and helping to reach strategic institutional goals in preparing for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF). The paper will also investigate how the extension of RADAR to incorporate Current Research Information System (CRIS) elements has led to increased user engagement and has successfully demonstrated a new use for the repository beyond its scholarly communication function.     

数字学术环境中的机构知识库探析

机构知识库是数字学术环境中的一种资源存储形式和服务方式,是对本机构成员的智力资产进行集中收集、组织、保存并提供服务的一个集成系统。本文对数字学术环境中的机构知识库进行了概述,介绍了其含义、特点、作用与建设形式,分析了其结构和功能,并探讨了它与数字学术环境中与之相关的其它信息保障构成要素如学科知识库、数字图书馆、开放获取等方面的关系。     

Does the scholarly communication system satisfy the beliefs and aspirations of new researchers? Summarizing the Harbingers research

A study from the Harbingers research project provides a comprehensive assessment of the main features of the scholarly communications system as viewed by early career researchers (ECRs) in the final year of the study (2018). Aspects covered are: discovery and access, authorship practices, peer review, publishing strategies, open access publishing, open data, sharing, collaboration, social media, metrics, impact, reputation, libraries, publishers, and scholarly transformations. Nearly 120 science and social science researchers from seven countries were questioned about these 16 aspects. It was found that some scholarly features work well for ECRs, and in this category can be included: discovery and access, authorship practices, sharing, collaboration, and publishers. Reputation, publishing strategies, and impact are more problematical, and they, in turn, cause tensions regarding some other factors – social media, open access, and open data. Of the rest, libraries are largely invisible, and ECRs have conflicting views concerning ethical behaviour. Few envisage that transformational change will take place in the next 5 years.     

Scholar Commons @ USF: Sharing Knowledge Worldwide

Librarians and faculty members are now working together through Open Access (OA) publishing to make faculty-produced scholarly content available to researchers worldwide. The University of South Florida Tampa Library has been working with the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) Digital Commons platform to create a substantial institutional repository (IR) that includes OA journals, conference proceedings, and data sets, among other materials. Library staff members are currently involved in a variety of activities, including negotiating memoranda of understanding, loading backfiles, registering Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) with CrossRef, designing layout, doing final publication steps, and assisting with technical issues. In 2011, the IR, Scholar Commons @ USF, went live, allowing the library to pull fragmented collections previously hosted on other platforms into a single system with improved discoverability. This article discusses how the repository was established, what is involved, lessons learned, and plans for future directions.     

The Great Transition of Scholarly Communication at the Thomas G. Carpenter Library

The library’s place in scholarly communication can be emphasized in many different ways. At the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida (UNF), librarians have been able to preserve, organize, and promote community and academic resources very creatively. The UNF Digital Commons is used as a way to showcase faculty, staff, and university special collections and make them accessible to all users. Library space is also changing to invite faculty collaboration in areas previously devoted to print periodicals.     

国内外机构库评价研究现状述评

基于文献调研,从机构库系统软件评价、数字资源管理评价、机构成员态度评价、综合评价以及实践建设宏观评价5个方面对国内外机构库评价研究进行述评。指出机构库系统软件评价研究已取得一定的成绩,而数字资源管理评价、综合评价以及实践建设宏观评价还需要更为深入的研究。     

新一代学术交流生态系统的研究与构建——以北京大学为例

[目的/意义] 通过学术交流生态系统的研究与北京大学学术交流生态系统的初步构建,为高校与科研机构建设学术交流生态系统,推动学术交流和开放获取服务提供研究与实践参考经验。[方法/过程] 梳理学术交流概念、模式、功能与国内外研究发展情况,分析学术交流环境变化,指出开放获取、数据驱动研究范式、软件工具发展、社交媒体、教育教学新变革等因素驱动学术交流生态系统重构。介绍北京大学新一代学术交流生态系统的研究成果、架构设计、构建经验与服务效果,总结机构知识库、研究数据服务、开放出版、学者主页与研究支持服务等建设经验与效果。[结果/结论] 研究提出新一代学术交流生态系统,是以开放学术交流为目标,以学术资源数据汇集为基础,覆盖完整学术交流生命周期,提供研究准备、学术发现、研究与分析、写作、发布、传播与评价等学术交流全流程服务,并利用文献计量、数据挖掘、机器学习等新技术,为教学、科研、科研管理、学科评估等提供支持。总结研究成果和经验,为高校与科研机构建设学术交流生态系统提供有价值的研究与建设参考经验。推动学术交流发展,促进研究创新。     

Bridging the Gap Between Digital Measures and Digital Commons in Support of Open Access: Or,How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Human Mediation

Utah State University is home to a Digital Commons repository and an instance of the Digital Measures activity-reporting tool. The prospect of linking these two systems, such that content is automatically harvested from Digital Measures for upload into the Digital Commons, is alluring. Our initial efforts were abandoned due to lack of faculty permissions and low-quality metadata. However, with the passage of an Institutional Open Access Policy, we resumed investigation. We found that the process of harvesting from Digital Measures and uploading to Digital Commons could be streamlined, if not fully automated. Our initial harvest revealed that human-mediation is desirable.     

香港高校图书馆的学术交流服务调查分析

[目的/意义]学术交流是研究工作的一个重要环节,高校图书馆有必要将学术交流服务作为科研支撑服务的重要内容。[方法/过程]以香港科技大学图书馆、香港浸会大学图书馆、香港岭南大学图书馆3所高校图书馆开展的学术交流服务为例进行分析,对香港高校图书馆的学术交流服务进行研究。[结果/结论]我国高校图书馆应厘清学术交流的概念及学术交流服务范畴,关注国内外高校图书馆开展学术交流服务的相关理论与实践,在图书馆培养和选聘有能力的馆员逐步开展学术交流服务。     

机构库评价的关键问题研究

在阐述机构库评价意义基础之上,认为机构库系统软件、学术机构成员、机构库资源、机构库管理与政策、机构库建设经费是影响机构库评价的因素。机构库评价面临着评价指标值难以获取等难点问题,而基于成熟度视角构建机构库评价模型,确实具有可行性与科学性。     

浅谈机构知识库群联盟的建设

在分析机构知识库的价值、保存资源类型、“知识效应”作用和国内外机构知识库发展现状的基础上．指出我国机构知识库只有以机构知识库群的形式,走集约化经营之路,才能在世界机构知识库发展中取得一席之地。最后就机构知识库群的建设问题提出了一些建议。     

学术信息交流的新途径——开放存取自存档

简述开放存取自存档的涵义、存在意义、目前发展状态。认为开放存取自存档是学术信息交流的新的重要途径。分析开放存取自存档资源的版权问题、自存档知识库的互操作问题、自存档知识库的查找问题、自存档资源的元数据收割及检索问题。以美国麻省理工学院的DSpace系统为例,介绍自存档类型之一的机构知识库的应用状况及版权控制措施。     

国外机构库发展概况

介绍机构库的资源内容和国外几个有代表性的机构库项目--DSpace联盟工程、CARL试验项目、ARNO工程;全面地分析机构库的资源内容、技术系统和管理方式,并阐明其管理系统和资源内容的提交过程;最后指出机构库的发展在给图书馆员带来机遇与挑战的同时,推动图书馆管理方式的进一步完善。     

机构知识库联盟发展现状及关键问题分析

在阐述机构知识库联盟概念、建设意义的基础上,对国内外主要国家层面和区域性机构知识库联盟项目的发展现状进行总结,并从机构知识库联盟可持续发展的角度提出5个关键问题：组织管理模式、政策框架、知识产权策略、技术组织方式及服务,以期为机构知识库联盟在我国的发展提供参考。