The last session of the day – Q and A with panel:<\/p>\n
Q: How quickly is change coming, and how can we keep pace with it – specifically in relation to ‘metrics’ such as the REF wants to apply?<\/p>\n
A: Metrics are by nature backwards looking – so bound to have some issues with this. Need to engage people like WoS\/SCOPUS to look at what they can offer. <\/p>\n
By its nature measuring something changes it – we have to constantly review (and change) our measures<\/p>\n
Q: How long will libraries continue to subscribe where material is also available via OA?<\/p>\n
A: Balancing act – everyone aware of fragility of system – need to keep peer-review, but how it is paid for is a question – while ‘publication’ is the model, need to maintain it.<\/p>\n
Q: Libraries can’t afford ‘author pays’ model<\/p>\n
A: Not just a library issue – institution need to understand issues and have policy towards OA and how they fund it<\/p>\n
Not the biggest issue – the ‘elephant in the room’ is the increase we expect to see from quality research coming out of China and India – unlikely current system will be able to cope with this.<\/p>\n
Q: How to physicists use arXiv – do they search? Browse?<\/p>\n
A: Get email alerts of new papers each day (or view on website).<\/p>\n
Anecdote – physicist saying never used physical copies, but saw them as an ‘archive’ copy (unlike the online version, which they read, but didn’t necessarily see as ‘permanent’)<\/p>\n
Comment: OUP has developed number of preservation approaches – dark archive, relationships with Portico, LOCKSS etc. This comes at high cost, and has been led by demands from libraries to publishers – could even see a reversal of this where publishers make demands on libraries for preservation etc. (which is perhaps the model we have with paper!)<\/p>\n
Some more discussion which I totally failed to capture – sorry \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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