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From download metrics to downstream impact => implications for Elsevier
Wouter Haak [email protected] 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
49%
17% -15%
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165%
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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
148%
546%
46%
3% 24%
14%
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 [email protected] 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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