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Welcome to the snowday edition of the Research Communication Workshop, by Robin Champieux, Nicole Vasilevsky, and Jackie Wirz of Oregon Health and Science University.
We’re going to begin with a brief overview of the current and changing landscape of scholarly communication.
The traditional model of scholarly communication is fairly straightforward. Successful research is shared via presentations, papers, and monographs, after data is collected and analyzed.
This model is slow. For example, a recent study by Bjork and Solomon clocked the mean timeframe from submission to to publication for biomedical journals at over 9 months and for all of the nine disciplines studied the mean was 12.8 months: http://openaccesspublishing.org/oa11/article.pdfGregg Gordon of the Social Science Research Network recently described the article of a snapshot of science. Within biomedical research, for example, discovery and ultimately new medical treatments are made up of, among other things, lots of these snapshots.
The traditional model is also very formalized in respect to when in the research cycle scholarship is shared (well after a study has taken place), how it is disseminated (scholarly monographs and peer-reviewed articles), to whom one is communicating (most often other experts in a specialized field) and how impact is measured (citation counts to publications).
Finally, the traditional model is unilateral in that it doesn’t easily facilitate dynamic, real-time, interaction between scholars, outside of the society meeting or conference. Nor does it easily further conversation between scientists, scholars, and the public.
The Internet has had a profound affect on scholarly communication, wherein the traditional model is being reimagined; ultimately, in the pursuit of advancing the discovery process. And, this reimaging includes new modes and models.But the internet, and technology more generally, have also amplified and affected a pre-existing characteristic of the research process – mainly that its activities –such as, forming and testing hypothesis, experimentation, funding, and publication, are symbiotic and networked.
For the online version of our Online NW workshop. Nicole, Jackie and I are going going to focus on three problem themes that hinder scholar communication and knowledge advancement, and the corresponding solutions that libraries and librarians are helping to build and promote – our assertion being that these solutions can strengthen the quality and efficiency of the entire research process.