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The changing landscape in scholarly information use and re-use

Explore the transformative landscape of scholarly information utilization, from the power of MOOCs and research data sets to the exponential growth of academic e-books. Discover how users' expectations and content discovery have evolved in the digital age, empowered by platforms like Google. Uncover the shift from traditional subscription models to demand-driven acquisition and the rise of open access initiatives. Dive into the changing dynamics of information dissemination and consumption that are reshaping academic libraries globally.

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The changing landscape in scholarly information use and re-use

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  1. The changing landscape in scholarly information use and re-use Jenny Walker24thOctober 2012

  2. Africa is a huge continent http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/the-true-size-of-africa/

  3. Cape Point

  4. Turbulent Times Kalk Bay Photo: Keith Lyle

  5. Powers of Ten • Gigabyte [ 1,000,000,000 bytes OR 109 bytes] • 1 Gigabyte: a symphony in high-fidelity sound OR a movie at TV quality; • 100 Gigabytes: A floor of academic journals • Terabyte [ 1,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1012 bytes] • 1 Terabyte: all the X-ray films in a large technological hospital • 10 Terabytes: The printed collection of the US Library of Congress; • Petabyte [ 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1015 bytes] • 2 Petabytes: All US academic research libraries; • 8 Petabytes: All information available on the Web; • Exabyte [ 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1018 bytes] • 5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings. • Zettabyte[ 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1021 bytes] • Yottabyte[ 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1024 bytes]

  6. Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

  7. Research Data Sets

  8. “It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI

  9. Library e-resource expenditure Source: Academic Library-North America

  10. http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/library-survey-2010http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/library-survey-2010

  11. Academic Ebook Adoption Threefold growth in past 5 years Source: Academic Library, North America

  12. http://bradcolbow.com/archive/view/the_brads_why_drm_doesnt_work/?p=205http://bradcolbow.com/archive/view/the_brads_why_drm_doesnt_work/?p=205

  13. Discovering Content

  14. And then…

  15. Google and the User • Empowered users • Raised user expectations for information discovery: • Easy to use (single search box) • Speed • Best results ranked highest • Immediate gratification (expect to ‘get’ what they find) • Good enough is OK • (Incorrect) perceptions encouraged by the Google experience: • Everything is indexed and thereby discoverable • Content is freely available and can be shared with others

  16. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-20018221

  17. http://www.oclc.org/us/en/reports/2010perceptions/2010perceptions_all.pdfhttp://www.oclc.org/us/en/reports/2010perceptions/2010perceptions_all.pdf

  18. Source: How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Journals, Inger S and Gardner T, 2012 - www.renewtraining.com/publications.htm

  19. PubMed

  20. NISO Open Discovery Initiative

  21. Traditional purchase and subscription models are changing dramatically

  22. Level of granularity of purchase

  23. Purchase or Rental

  24.  Ex Libris Ltd., 2012 - Internal and Confidential

  25. Demand Driven Acquisition • Aka Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) • 40% (or more) of a library’s existing collection does not circulate* • Invest in ebook collections that are used • The best predictor of usage is the user * 2008 Annual ARL Statistical Reports http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/890835-264/print_on_the_margins_circulation.html.csp

  26. Crowdfunding • Unglueit.com https://unglue.it/

  27. Pay what you want

  28. Open Access

  29. SPARC Open Access Week – 22-28 Oct

  30. Some recent drivers towards OA

  31. Open Access Publishers

  32. One size does not fit all

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