The transition to Finch - the implications for academic libraries

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……

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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: jude.england@bl.uk

Head Social Sciences

The British Library

96 Euston Road

London NW1 2DB

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