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LIFE Conference 20 April 2006

LIFE Conference 20 April 2006. The Researchers’ Perspective Michael Jubb Director Research Information Network. Researchers’ Perspectives. The UK Research Community Their Interest in Digital Preservation Publications and Other Research Outputs. The UK Research Community.

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LIFE Conference 20 April 2006

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  1. LIFE Conference20 April 2006 The Researchers’ Perspective Michael Jubb Director Research Information Network

  2. Researchers’ Perspectives • The UK Research Community • Their Interest in Digital Preservation • Publications and Other Research Outputs

  3. The UK Research Community • Higher Education • c 75,000 researchers • 26% life sciences and medicine • 26% physical sciences and engineering • 48% social sciences, arts and humanities • Government and Industry • c 116,000 researchers • Researchers = 0.6% of the UK workforce • US and Japan 0.9% • EU average 0.5% • Library staff in UK • c 10,000 staff in academic libraries, of which c 3,000 professional staff • CILIP membership 14,644 (2003-04)

  4. Expenditure on Research and Development • UK Government Expenditure • £11,055m total • £5,227m Research Councils and Higher Education Funding Councils • £2,523m Government Departments (civil) and EU • £3,345m Defence • UK Total Expenditure • c £21,000m ($30,000m) • US Expenditure $275,000m • German Expenditure $53,000m • UK accounts for c4.0% of OECD expenditure on R&D

  5. Researchers’ Interest in Preservation • Researchers are both producers and users of information • The dissemination and knowledge transfer imperatives • Bibliometrics, career progression and the assessment of research quality • Responsiveness and links between the research base and the economy • Access through delivery to the desktop • Metadata, provenance, citation linking, authenticity and version control, common platforms and interoperability

  6. Publications and Other Outputs • Production • UK produces c70,000 articles annually • c 15,000-20,000 journals worldwide • c 1m articles published annually • growth rate of c 3-3.5% annually • Citation • UK accounts for c 12% of global citations • Huge disciplinary differences, but • c 10% of papers never cited in another paper • citations continue to accumulate for c 8 years

  7. Data and Other Outputs • E-science and the data deluge • Images, performances, sounds, software • 11.5bn pages on the publicly- indexable Web 2005 • “I can get access to my own data; what I want is access to other people’s data”

  8. Data and E-infrastructure • Increasing interest in how to preserve and provide access to research information • UK E-Infrastructure Steering Group • OECD Ministerial Declaration on Access to Data from Publicly-Funded Research • US CyberInfrastructure Report and NSB Report on Long-Lived Data • Australian Research Information Infrastructure Committee

  9. Key Goals and Principles • Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded research should be made available and accessible for public use, interrogation, and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly and effectively as practicable • explicit rules and codes of practice • standards, quality assurance and peer review • access in a managed environment • efficient and cost-effective use of public funds.

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