the transition to finch - the implications for academic libraries
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Jude England
Head of Social Sciences, The British Library
November 2012
The transition to Finch – the implications for
academic libraries
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Some statistics……
Typically serials have built-in
price increase of 5%; exchange
rates been recent problem – RIN
2009 calculated 15% increase
(in reverse at present)
Expenditure on academic libraries:
322m, 3% of total university expenditure
in 97- 98; by 07-08, 550m, 2.1% of total
(SCONUL and HESA)
Ave, price of UK academic book 08-
09 £48.57. Range from £45.64
humanities to £67.57 in technology
Expenditure on print only
and combined print and digital
serials falling
Ethos – Database of 300,000 theses
Phase One of UKRR released 11,000+
metres of shelving ; aims to release 100 km
by the end of 2013
979 academic libraries
4,000 + public libraries
6 national (legal deposit) libraries
(CILIP 2008-09)
British Library 150 million items:
13m books, 1m journals;
5m reports, theses and conference
papers; 1.5 million visitors; 16,000
users every day
Total number of serials titles
academic libraries subscribed to almost
tripled to 1.5m in 10 yrs
to 07-08
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Challenges to Academic Libraries
RIN 2009
� After decade of growth expecting sustained period of cuts
� Strategic thinking on:
�Balance of staffing and expenditure on resources
� Service development with a user focus (and what to cut), and
how to make best use of resources for data curation, OA and
training
�Tight acquisition budgets and meeting demands, plus the
difficulties of sustaining journal provision and subscription
costs
�Greater cooperation and collaboration across the sector
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Access
� Smaller, distributed network of specialist guides
� Opportunity for consumers to pay what they want for content
� Stories conveyed through interactive computer gamesFunding
� Very tough for cultural institutions and HE
� New business models may yield new revenue streams
� Demonstration of value critical to ensuring funding
Research
� Research funding allocated on basis of economic/ social
impact
� STM research will continue to be well funded
� Increase in collaborative, multi/ inter-disciplinary research
Higher
Education
� Different universities will focus on different disciplines
� Growth in distance and online learning
� Collaborative partnerships with private sector
Looking to 2020…..
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Research and learning becoming increasingly
collaborative and open
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Openly connecting Researchers with
with their research objects
� 2 year project funded under EC FP7 Coordination and Action Programme
� ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID Initiative)
� Datacite Consortium – BL is UK registration agent
� Partners: ORCID, Datacite, BL, CERN, Dryad, arXiv, ANDS
� Build on Orcid and Datacite initiatives to uniquely identify and connect
scientists and datasets
� ‘Datasets’ has a broad definition (anything but journals) so can include grey
literature, presentations, code etc.
� Connect information across multiple services and infrastructures for scholarly
communications
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Openly connecting Researchers with
with their research objects
� Infrastructure already exists for researchers to build up an
open portfolio of research objects
� Register an ORCID ID www.orcid.org and link published papers
using ORCID’s tools
� Non published outputs (working papers, datasets) can be
deposited in figshare http://figshare.com/ given a DataCite DOI
and linked back and added to ORCID profile
� ODIN wants to expand on this principle and engage with data
centres and institutional repositories to allow easier more
open discovery of non-traditional research outputs.
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Fate of Print to 2020……
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0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
2019
UK Books - Children, Fiction & Leisure
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
2019
UK Newspapers
Digital only
Parallel
Physical only Source: Outsell, British Library
forecasts
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Digital only
Parallel
Physical only
Fate of Print to 2020……
9
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
2019
UK Journals
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
2019
UK HE Monographs
Source: Outsell, British Library forecasts
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Scenarios for 2050
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Scenarios for 2050
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… and not forgetting the consumer….
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Access to research and technical information in
Denmark
� More than 2/3rds had difficulty accessing market research
reports; 62% technical reports from government agencies
� Links with universities and colleges were relied on to provide
access to articles
� Use of Open Access materials widespread: more than half used
institutional repositories or subject repositories and OA journals
monthly or more regularly
� Almost 4 in 10 always or frequently had difficulty accessing
research articles; a further 4 in 10 sometimes had difficulties
� Access to academic research brings benefits: 27% of products and
19% of processes introduced or developed would have been
delayed – and cost
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Open Access and LibrariesCharles W. Bailey 2008
� OA does not require that libraries do anything for it to exist
� Full OA ‘good thing’:
� content owned not licensed
� rights and permissions clear and promote access
� no need for authentication barriers
� no need to err on the side of non-use
� no need to seek permission for reproduction
� no need to negotiate for prices or licenses, nor cancel subscriptions
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An open access future: the role of academic
libraries
April 2012, 14 senior librarians and industry experts
� Agreed that OA growth, speed and spread dependent on policy directions
and will vary between subjects
� Stressed the importance of discoverability of OA as key to its usefulness
� Attitudes of researchers key:
� still mistrustful, lack understanding and may be reluctant to comply
unless funder requirement and benefits communicated
� but, also operate in OA world and expect it
� Opportunity to open up and share resources beyond institutional walls
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An open access future: the role of academic
libraries
� OA will impact budgets but libraries also well placed to support management of
gold access budgets
� OA reduce the importance of libraries developing institutional collections but
increase role in management of institutional repositories
� Management of metadata critical for discoverability of OA resources; metadata
management and preservation increasingly likely on a web scale not institutional
level
� Quality of provision and services will be more important that the content of the
library; value will be added via digitisation of unique collections
� Libraries will increasingly work together and share functions and services
‘The information professional is the library of the future.’
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What are the implications then?
� Yes, costs, but libraries no strangers to good
budget management
� Connecting core: global landscape and need to
move past artificial and existing boundaries
� Don’t assume that researchers understand OA,
especially differences between gold and green,
access, embargos, archiving
� Discoverability, usability, good metadata and
appropriate rights management central
� Libraries key in creation of discovery, usability
and access, as well as building, curating and
sustaining digital repositories
� Essential to monitor and understand user
expectations and changing environment
Creation ofnew knowledge
Connecting people
to content
PreservationCollection
and curation
Organisationand
description
User behaviour
and
expectations
Information
lifecycle
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Don’t Panic!
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Jude England (0)20 7412 7670
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Email: [email protected]
Head Social Sciences
The British Library
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