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Jude England
Head of Social Sciences, The British Library
November 2012
The transition to Finch – the implications for
academic libraries
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
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…..
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.’
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
Don’t Panic!
Jude England (0)20 7412 7670
Alt ext.: 7487
Email: [email protected]
Head Social Sciences
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
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