From download metrics to downstream impact => implications for Elsevier

Wouter Haak w.haak@elsevier.com Library Connect Webinar Dec. 3, 2015 How researchers share articles: impact on library resources and services

• The graph shows how many users have joined Mendeley groups year on year between 2009-2015 • The results were calculated based on groups with more than 1 member • The 2015 extrapolation assumes that the last 10 months’ growth will continue towards end of the year

Source: Mendeley analytics team

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At Elsevier / Mendeley we also see that online sharing and collaborating is increasingly important (1)

• The graph shows how many documents were added to the groups by users year on year between 2009-2015 • The results were calculated based on groups with more than 1 member • The 2015 extrapolation assumes that the last 10 months’ growth will continue towards end of the year Source: Mendeley analytics team

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At Elsevier / Mendeley we also see that online sharing and collaborating is increasingly important (2)

1) For the researcher: sharing in

2) For the institution: collaborations in

3) With publishers and platforms: principles for sharing on SCN’s

Actions undertaken and next steps – based on this research

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1) For the researcher: sharing in

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2) For the institution: collaborations in

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3) With publishers and platforms: principles for sharing on SCN’s

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• SCNs are platforms that allow researchers to develop and maintain professional relationships

• Typically they enable

- Discussion or research and information exchange - Sharing of research results, articles and data

• SCNs have grown substantially* in recent years, particularly in the “big”

three – Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and Mendeley

• STM working group identified 40+ such networks

*CCC/CLA Report on Scholarly Collaboration Platforms, M. Ware, November 27,2014 (CCC/Outsell)

Social Collaboration Networks (SCNs)

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STM assembled a working group in September 2014 to examine the current landscape of article sharing via SCNs and publishers’ role

Ten publishers, both for profit and not-for-profit, and some of whom owned or interacted with SCNs, took part

They produced the draft set of “voluntary principles for article sharing on scholarly collaboration networks” and posted it for a two-month STM Open Consultation in early 2015, and invited wide participation among all stakeholder groups

STM Consultation on Article Sharing

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The principles are meant to: • clarify how, where and what content should be shared using

these networks and sites

• improve the experience for all stakeholders

• encourage publishers and SCNs to work together to facilitate sharing, which benefits researchers, institutions and society as a whole

• All comments and a summary posted on the STM website • Key recommendation: Principles should be clear, simple, uniform

Voluntary Principles for Article Sharing on SCNs

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• Based on the community’s constructive feedback, the working group posted a revised set of principles August 28.

http://www.stm-assoc.org/stm-consultations/scn-consultation-2015/

• Posting includes an explanation of the changes made to the principles as a result

Response to STM’s Open Consultation

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• Publishers commit to facilitate the dissemination and discovery of their authors’ scholarly articles.

• Sharing should be allowed within a research collaboration group (to be defined by the group) - Allow article sharing between subscribers and non-subscribers

within the group - Include members of the wider public participating with the group - Include commercial researchers, subject to publisher policy or

appropriate licensing • Publishers and libraries should extend their collective use of standards

such as COUNTER to quantify article use on networks.

• Publishers and standards organizations should continue to work together on tools that facilitate sharing (article versioning and access rights metadata).

• Publisher policies on research collaboration group sharing and public posting of articles should be clear and easily discoverable.

Voluntary principles: key points

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Publisher posting policy - Several publishers (e.g., NPG, Wiley, Elsevier) have issued policies that address posting via SCNs

Article tagging project - To support implementation a sub-working group is tasked with demonstrating a technical solution based on tagging xmp metadata in scholarly articles

The SCN working group continues to reach out for wider involvement, including non-publisher-owned networks

Comments/updates on progress, email scnproject@stm-assoc.org Updates will continually be posted on:

www.stm-assoc.org/stm-consultations/scn-consultation-2015/

Next steps

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Seeking your involvement and/or endorsement http://www.stm-assoc.org/stm-consultations/scn-consultation-2015/

Alternatively: Google for “STM principles” or “STM consultation”

Next steps

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1) For the researcher: sharing in

2) For the institution: collaborations in

3) With publishers and platforms: principles for sharing on SCNs

From download metrics to downstream impact => implications for Elsevier

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