Data has shown time and time again that UK institutions achieve bigger successes when they collaborate with colleagues internationally, and from within the EU in particular. To what extent does the changing political landscape present a threat to growing an open research ecosystem, and what role can libraries and publishers play in supporting collaboration for the future? Catherine Williams, Altmetric John Rogers, University of Stirling Liz Allen, F1000 Yvonne Nobis, University of Cambridge

1. Fostering and protecting cultures of collaboration: the
role of libraries and publishers
UKSG, April 2018

2. • Intro from me
• Panelist presentations
• Discussion - get involved!
The plan!

3. Who’s who?
• Cat Williams, CMO, Altmetric & Dimensions
• Yvonne Nobis, Head of Science Information Services, University of
Cambridge
• Katie Hughes, Open Access Research Advisor, University of Cambridge
• Dr John Rogers, Director of Research and Innovation Services, University
of Stirling
• Liz Allen, Director of Strategic Initiatives, F1000

4. Question time!

5. To use Slido:
1.You will need a wifi enabled device
2.Go to www.slido.com
3.Enter the event code: D303

6. I believe that finding the right people to
collaborate with will get harder for our
researchers.
Step 1: Go to www.slido.com
Step 2: #D303

7. Our researchers feels that they know what
to look for when trying to find new
collaborators.
Step 1: Go to www.slido.com
Step 2: #D303

8. What are the biggest challenges you think
your researchers or organisation faces
with regards to collaboration?
Step 1: Go to www.slido.com
Step 2: #D303

9. The story so far

10. Why collaborate?
● Shared resources, ideas
and expertise
● Increase profile of
individual and institution
● Greater research
impact?

11. Trends in the UK
“About 85% of US and
UK international
collaboration is with
only one or two
partners, usually
among other “leading”
research economies.”
Increase in the relative frequency (log scale)
of papers for the UK with co-authors from
frequent partner countries

12. What the data tells us
“Additional funding for international
research collaboration initiatives
contributes to GDP by increasing
both the total number of researchers
who undertake research (allowing
additional researchers to be hired or
existing academics to devote more of
their time to research), and
improving the quality of research
completed by those who receive
funding.”
Universities New Zealand, December 2017

13. Source: Altmetric Top 100, 2017
Source: J Adams, 2018
Normalized citation impact of UK papers co-authored with a partner
country where the named partner is the only collaborator; the USA
contributes the greatest benefit but the trend is flat whereas the
benefit from EU partners is rising.

14. News tools = new opportunities?

15. Source: S Porter, Dimensions.ai blog

16. “We see quite a strong resistance to the idea that
there should be a national strategic organisation
to support international research collaboration.
Individuals know who they want to work with
[and] they know why they want to work with
them.”
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/little-appetite-overseas-collaboration-fund-post-brexit

17. First-hand experiences

18. Librarians as matchmakers…

20. Obstacles to collaboration
• Geographic location
• Lack of domain knowledge
• Lack of common vocabulary
• Some things may not be discoverable e.g.
software

21. Tools

23. #healthcare #alcohol
#addiction
#bebidasalcohlic
as
Tweets

27. Vivo

28. Cambridge
collaboration
https://www.research-information.admin.cam.ac.uk/what-information-available/network-analysis/collaboration-c
Yvonne Nobis
yn235@cam.ac.uk
Katie Hughes
kh609@cam.ac.uk

29. The end of the
world as we know
it…

30. H2020(UK) Participation Funding share
2016 15% 16%
2017 12% 13%
Observer, 3 Dec 2017

31. Populis
m
vs
the Truth

33. “The most research-active universities are
intensively engaged with partners in
other countries and the publications that
emerge become the most highly cited
part of the UK (and international)
research base. This shifts the leading edge
of research from a national base to an
international network and the gap
between that network and the domestic
research base is growing”
Adams & Gurney,
The Implications of International Research Collaboration for UK
Universities,
Digital Science 2016
There is hope

34. There is hope

35. • Thank you
• john.rogers@stir.ac.uk
• @REOStirling
• www.stir.ac.uk/research
• @Stir_Research

36. Liz Allen
Director of Strategic Initiatives, F1000
liz.allen@f1000.com UKSG|Glasgow|April 2018
F1000
Recognising contributions,
fostering collaboration

37. https://sfdora.org

38. Widening
range of
outputs
available
Articles
Data
Resources
Software
all with a
trackable
&
persistent
DOIs
F1000

39. Growth in collaboration & team science
F1000

41. https://casrai.org/credita/

42. Rethinking authorship
F1000

43. F1000

44. https://casrai.org/credita/
F1000

45. How to implement
F1000
Growing list of CRediT implementors
https://casrai.org/credita/

46. Visibibility & meta-data around contribution … indicators? F1000

47. Discussion

48. Thank you!
cat@altmetric.com