How Changing Technical and Social Landscapes Are Affecting Scientific Discovery and Applied Research

How changing technical and social landscapes are affecting scientific discovery and applied research

Barbie Keiser MLW2019 [email protected] Arlington, VA [email protected]

1 Alterline report conducted for Ex-Libris Supporting Academic Research Understanding the challenges

Findings from a 2019 study of 300 researchers in the US, the UK, and Australia. 2 The library/information professionals New tools, new approaches

A changing ecosystem

How we learn & how/what we teach Influences & Impacts, criteria & metrics

3 4 Improving discovery and dissemination Understanding the modern scholarly of scientific research communication system

❏ Browsers & search engines, ❏ Preprints & working papers monitors & alerts ❏ Assert.pub ❏ Semantic Scholar ❏ F1000 ❏ Biocarian.com & ❏ PCA-News.com socialscienceresearch.com ❏ https://osf.io/preprints/ ❏ DataMed.org’s bioCADDIE ❏ PaaS ❏ Peer.us ❏ Institutional repositories The library ❏ CHORUSaccess.org information ❏ Globalization + title, database, & Barrier busters, integrity inspectors, and publisher acquisitions collaboration tools professionals ❏ Publisher, platform, community expansion ❏ Access broker browser extensions Librarians as stewards ❏ Science institutions hiring integrity ❏ Self-archiving inspectors to vet their papers (ShareYourPaper.org) (Nature) ❏ Data retention requirements ❏ Reproducibility ❏ Massively Open Online Papers ❏ Making data available for (MOOPs) reuse 5 ❏ Perma.cc Access Broker Browser Extensions

6 Barrier Busters

7 Recording changes made to an Metadata about information item on a blockchain could make resources its authenticity simple to verify Blockchain platforms could ❏ Application potential for archives and records support new, distributed, large- management scale metadata systems ❏ Research data curation Blockchain-based financial systems could be used to purchase scholarly resources Blockchain

Scholarly publishing workflows Credentialing and CE

❏ Artifacts.io ❏ Orvium.io ❏ Protocols.io BLOCKCHAIN edited by Sandra Hirsh and Susan Alman. ALA Center for the Future of Libraries, 2020 8 Determining where to publish + initial steps Tools of note ❏ CORE.ac.uk ❏ OA/OS/OR (XXXArXiv)/OER ❏ J-Stage (GLOALL/Japan) ❏ Patents, clinical trials, courts ❏ Force11.org ❏ Plan S ❏ Scienceopen.com ❏ Editage + its partnerships ❏ OpenScienceMOOC.eu ❏ Peerwith.com (Eliademy.com) ❏ International Science Editing ❏ Health Research Alliance open (internationalscienceediting.com) science platform launched in ❏ JournalGuide.com & aje.com from partnership with the National Research Square Library of Medicine (Figshare) New tools, new ❏ Creating two abstracts at the outset approaches ❏ Selecting keywords Successfully navigating the peer review Managing post-publication process for journals and conferences ❏ Press releases (content + ❏ Publishers (Hindawi) are trying placement) alternatives (open annotation) ❏ Infographics, animations, video ❏ SciRev.org + PEERE.org + F1000 ❏ Reviewers ❏ Scholasticahq.com + PUBLONS ❏ Dealing with IP rights ❏ Rubriq.com from Research Square ❏ Social/communities ❏ BiomedCentral + Open Biology ❏ Clarivate’s ScholarOne 9 ❏ Peerageofscience.org 10 Research guides Targeted workshops, drop-ins & meetups

❏ Citation management+ ❏ Partnerships & collaboration ❏ ReadCube Connect ❏ Faculty-specific ❏ Colwiz.com ❏ Interdisciplinary ❏ CrossMark for Researchers ❏ Beyond your institution ❏ Lit reviews ❏ “How to” deposit work in the ❏ Self-archiving institution’s repository ❏ E-lab notebooks How we learn & how/what we teach Subjects covered Linking truth to evidence ❏ R/Python ❏ Data visualization (Tableau) ❏ Digital mapping/Geomapping ❏ Web authoring/publishing tools ❏ Digital annotation tools ❏ Storytelling ❏ Text/data mining (NLP, ML) ❏ http://guides.lib.uw.edu/bothell/ digitalscholarship/tools 11 What happens when a scientific field ❏ Information presented to compel experiences hyper-competitiveness? or dissuade people from action can thwart true intent ❏ Unsubstantiated or erroneous claims can have serious ❏ Dubious methodologies for data repercussions collection in an age of increasing ❏ Non-specific language can privacy, compounded by complex contribute to confusion, or worse analysis techniques and confusing ❏ Technical language (jargon, presentation of statistical data, acronyms) can impede often for the sake of a “cool” “Fake” applies to understanding of complex issues visualization science too Exaggerations to make a point, or ❏ Resource to help journalists assess the newsworthiness of purposely inflating/deflating numbers, scientific findings and evaluate can lead to poor decisions methodologies from the Shorenstein Center on Media, ❏ “The urge to set trending topics in Politics and Public Policy resource order to gain viral popularity and https://journalistsresource.org/tip- thus attention leads to an sheets/research/medical-studies- exaggeration or simplification of newsworthy-research-tips/ ❏ Journalistsresource.org results.” (ALLEA) ❏ Toolsforreporters.com ❏ Pseudoscience or “junk science” is ❏ Sciencefeedback.co 12 rampant on social media ❏ Retractionwatch.com Individual publication/scientist/institution Today’s tools allow publishers to offer real-time/instantaneous feedback at the ❏ Alternative metrics (Altmetrics) article level ❏ Depsy.org ❏ www.metrics-toolkit.org ❏ Total documents, total cites, ❏ Proposal for a standard cites/doc, references/doc article metrics dashboard to ❏ H-index and g-index quantifying the Influences & replace Journal Impact impact of an individual offer Factor, 07/2019 ❏ Eigenfactor.org metrics scoring impacts, ❏ Scientist/scholar (Kudos) Article Influence and Journal Prices ❏ Bibliometric thresholds within a field (+5-year citation data) criteria & ❏ Acquisition of assessment and ❏ JIF via Clarivate Citation Reports analytic tools ❏ SCImago Journal and Country rank metrics ❏ DORA (sfdora.org) ❏ Impact Vizor from Highwire Press (Scholarly ❏ Analytics for libraries+ ❏ Scopus (Elsevier) journal metrics ❏ Impact per publication Kitchen blog) ❏ SNIP Societal impact Tools

❏ Policymaking ❏ Citation management ❏ FastTrackimpact.com ❏ Scite.ai ❏ ResearchFish.net ❏ RIM as the faculty portfolio ❏ Becker (Medical Library) Model ❏ Elsevier’s PURE 13 (WUSTL) ❏ Digital-Science Symplectic How science got funded in the past Research tools we used to identify potential funders/funding agencies ❏ National boundaries ❏ Big Book ❏ Domain-specific ❏ Directories of Research Grants ❏ Foundation Directory ❏ NSF ❏ Grants.gov ❏ CrossRef’s Funding Data service (crossref.org/funding data) ❏ SHARE Initiative (share- Grants research.org) Strategic use of social platforms as What gets funded/how communities

❏ No boundaries ❏ LinkedIn, Academia.edu, ❏ Collaborative efforts ResearchGate.net,F1000, ScholarlyHub.org ❏ Grant writing guides/workshops ❏ Vivoweb.org (DuraSpace), Direct2Experts

14 Finding & presenting data Research data management (RDM)

❏ FAIR Principles apply to ❏ Tools for data cleaning & repositories transforming, exploring & ❏ DataCite, CrossRef, i4OC extending ❏ The right graphic ❏ Ensuring that data is secure, ❏ Communicating science through backed-up comics & animation (sciani.com) ❏ Repository services (short- & long- ❏ Infographics, the scientific poster term storage) (osf.io), video (Research Square) ❏ Providing/controlling access ❏ Using timelines and maps to tell a ❏ Communities and learning Data story (timeline.knightlab.com) opportunities What we know/contribute ❏ Simmons Research Data Management Library ❏ Managing, archiving, preserving Academy (RDMLA) ❏ Data management planning ❏ LibraryCarpentry.org ❏ Needs assessments ❏ Data/metadata standards Linking datasets in perpetuity ❏ Data service providers/services ❏ Repository services Privacy and confidentiality issues ❏ Data management research guides/workshops/blogs... 15 Scientific publishing & the ability to Platforms designed for data sharing & share analysis

❏ Number of scientific journals ❏ Citations, including in policy ❏ Acquisition of titles documents ❏ Learned societies ❏ Open access (OA) ❏ Data.Mendeley.com ❏ Faculty-specific ❏ SciCrunch.org (University of ❏ Library as publisher California, San Diego) ❏ Howcanishareit.com ❏ Dimensions.ai in Digital- Publications, science.com platforms, & ❏ Synapse.org Social platforms and tracking tools online mentions+ Aggregation & Analysis ❏ Web.mention.com ❏ Kudos ❑ Contributing to the discussion ❏ Impactstory.org tracks “buzz” on Twitter ❑ Policy documents ❏ PLOS software tracks how many times an article is shared using social networking tools

16 17 “Conveying the meaning behind the data,” May/June 2016, pp. 20-24, 41 ONLINE “Innovations in scholarly publishing,” January/February 2017, pp. 16-22 Searcher “Scholarly hiccups beyond the ‘publish or perish’ debate, July/August 2017, articles on the pp. 22-23, 40-45 subjects “In support of the scholar,” March/April 2018, pp. 16-21,38-39 discussed in “Trends in scholarly publishing,” March/April 2019, pp. 22-27 this “Librarians assisting scholarly publishing: websites to watch,” May/June 2019, pp. 16-21 presentation "Supporting Libraries, Scholarship, and Publishing in the Global South,” Jan/Feb 2020 (forthcoming)

18 Questions?

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