The roads less travelled by, and will they make a difference?
Alma Swan
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Truro, UK
Customer value creation
Which of the factors our industry takes for granted should be eliminated?
Which factors should be reduced well below the industry standard?
Which factors should be raised well above the industry standard?
Which factors should be created that the industry never offered?
Meals; travel agents
Flexibility in changing flights; seat selection
Punctuality; price
Refunds if late; ticketless travel
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Even the new ones are doing things the same, as Mark said…
Branding by journal Publishing articles Peer review
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The research cycle
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‘Atkins’ Report
‘The primary access to the latest findings in a growing number of fields is through the Web, then through classic preprints and conferences, and lastly through refereed archival papers’.
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J I SC-fundedcontent providers
institutionalcontent providers
externalcontent providers
brokers aggregators catalogues indexes
institutionalportals
subjectportals
learning managementsystems
media-specificportals
end-userdesktop/ browser
OpenURLlink servers
shared inf rastructure
authentication/ authorisation(Athens)
institutional profi lingservices
terminologyservices
service registries
identifier services
metadata schema registries
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenseAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0
institutionalarchival storage
remote archivalstorage / escrow
format registries
format conversion services
representation informationregistries
persistent identifierservices
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What will be done with the data?
Full-text and metadata harvested, inverted, indexed
Artificial-intelligence augmented classification of article (enriched metadata)
Articles will also be tagged and classified by users (Connotea, delicious)
Text-mining and data-mining for new technologies (e.g. NeuroCommons)
Citation-linking (forward to articles cited; backwards to articles citing)
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Find a researcher …..
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Follow the citing trail …
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Follow the citing trail …
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Track citation history
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What else are researchers doing?
e-science and e-research Data sharing Using new informal channels
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National Institutes of Health
‘Data should be made as widely and freely available as possible while safeguarding the privacy of participants, and protecting confidential and proprietary data’
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NIH Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Project
‘Software, data, standards, infrastructure directly supported by caBIG resources must be open source and open access (i.e. licensed to the government with the government having no restrictions with regard to redistribution).’
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NASA
‘NASA is committed to full and open sharing of ESE data from its funded and owned systems’ No embargo period Access for the scientific community and the
general public ‘NASA is committed to non-discriminatory
access to data’
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Global Change Research Program
Bromley Principles:
‘Full and open sharing of the full suite of global data sets for all global change researchers is a fundamental objective.’
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UK funding bodies
Research Councils Joint Data Standards Study Wellcome Trust
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OECD (Declaration on Access to Research Data from Public Funding)
The governments of 34 nations recognise: Optimum international exchange of data, information and
knowledge contributes decisively to the advancement of scientific research and innovation
Open access to, and unrestricted use of, data promotes scientific progress and facilitates the training of researchers
Open access will maximise the value derived from public investments in data collection efforts
Substantial benefits that science, the economy and society at large could be gained from the opportunities that expanded use of digital data resources
The risk that undue restrictions on access to and use of research data from public funding could diminish the quality and efficiency of scientific research and innovation
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Nature
‘A condition of publication in Nature is that authors are required to make materials, data and associated protocols available to readers on request’
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ICMJE (Intl Cttee Medical Jrnl Editors)
Open access registry of drug trials data Electronically searchable; public access The 11 journals involved will not publish
the results of clinical trials unless research teams have pre-registered the trial and deposited the data
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‘Atkins’ Report on Cyberinfrastructure (NSF)
‘Archives containing hundreds or thousands of terabytes of data will be affordable and necessary for archiving scientific and engineering information’.
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Interdisciplinary research: NSF
Program $millions FY2005
Total funding 3844
Mathematical & physical sciences 1115
Computer Science & Engineering 618
Engineering 576
Multidisciplinary research 31
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EPSRC (UK)
Programme £millions
Engineering 234
Materials science 177
Physics 128
Mathematics 54
Life sciences interface 31
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Some interdisciplinary fields
Biomimetics Systems biology Environmental science Chemical biology Genomics Healthcare technologies Green chemistry
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J I SC-fundedcontent providers
institutionalcontent providers
externalcontent providers
brokers aggregators catalogues indexes
institutionalportals
subjectportals
learning managementsystems
media-specificportals
end-userdesktop/ browser
OpenURLlink servers
shared inf rastructure
authentication/ authorisation(Athens)
institutional profi lingservices
terminologyservices
service registries
identifier services
metadata schema registries
©Andy Powell (UKOLN, University of Bath) andNeil Beagrie (British Library and J I SC), 2005
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenseAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0
institutionalarchival storage
remote archivalstorage / escrow
format registries
format conversion services
representation informationregistries
persistent identifierservices
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Usage stories
UoC’s eScholarship repository logged 2 million downloads 2 years - 0.5m 1 year – 1m 9mths – 2m 10K records at end 2005
University of Otago Business School Launched mid-November 20K downloads by mid-February
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Author readiness to comply with a mandate
0 20 40 60 80 100
% respondents
Would complywillingly
Would complyreluctantly
Would notcomply
81%
14%
5%
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Technological change
Stage 1: apply new technologies to existing processes (i.e. more of the same, faster and cheaper)
Stage 2: integrate new technologies into existing processes (i.e. improve existing systems)
Stage 3: infuse and diffuse new technologies to create new processes and systems
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We may have reached the Miocene
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Thank you for listening
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