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Future of Academic Publishing and how does it impact your research

Rosalia da Garcia, Managing Director�SAGE Publishing Asia-Pacific

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Academic Industry Trends

R&D FUNDING IMPACTING ARTICLE OUTPUT

PLAN S/COALITIONS

SCHOLARLY COLLABORATION NETWORKS

OPEN DATA

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Research and Development Budgets

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  1. Austria
  2. France
  3. Ireland
  4. Italy
  5. Luxembourg
  6. Netherlands
  7. Norway
  8. Poland
  9. Slovenia
  10. Sweden
  11. UK
  12. Finland
  13. US
  14. Jordan

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Plan S

  • Statement of Intent; Not a Plan
  • …may continue to tolerate publications in ‘hybrid’ journals…
  • Lots of objections to it from academia
  • But, focus now is on implementation – European Commission task force & UK Research & Innovation
  • Ultimate outcome is still unclear

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SAGE Ocean is an initiative from SAGE Publishing to help social scientists navigate vast data sets and work with new technologies. Our hope is that our work will help to make it easier for social researchers to work with big data and new technology in order to advance our understanding of the world. 

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SAGE Concept Grants: Applications open for 2020

£15,000 TO SCALE UP

£2,000 FOR NEW IDEAS

SAGE’s Concept Grant program has been developed to fund innovative software solutions that support social science researchers to work with big data and new technologies.

We are seeking proposals for software tools that will tackle some of the challenges currently facing social scientists and enable more researchers to engage with computational methods.

APPLY NOW

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  • Open Research Data Pilot – European Commission
    • Increasing willingness to share data
    • Increasing requirements to share data

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  • Wellcome Trust Output Sharing Policy
    • Requires underlying data is available at time of article publication (also requires Gold OA publication)

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  • Data Repositories for Academic Research Outputs
    • Figshare
    • Dryad
    • Harvard Dataverse

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  • Considerations
    • Citation of datasets vs. published article(s)
    • Likelihood to share data varies by subject area
    • Mandates vary by country

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Source: The State of Open Report 2019

79% OF 2019 RESPONDENTS WERE SUPPORTIVE OVERALL OF A NATIONAL MANDATE FOR MAKING PRIMARY RESEARCH OPENLY AVAILABLE

67% OF RESPONDENTS THINK THAT FUNDERS SHOULD WITHHOLD FUNDING FROM, OR PENALISE IN OTHER WAYS, RESEARCHERS WHO DO NOT SHARE THEIR DATA IF THE FUNDER HAS MANDATED THAT THEY DO SO

69% OF RESPONDENTS THINK THAT FUNDERS SHOULD MAKE THE SHARING OF RESEARCH DATA PART OF THEIR REQUIREMENTS FOR AWARDING GRANTS

36% OF RESPONDENTS EXPRESSED THE CONCERN THAT THEIR DATA MAY BE MISUSED IF IT WAS SHARED

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Source: The State of Open Report 2019

42% of researchers would be encouraged to share their data if it resulted in a co-authorship

Researchers who routinely share their data has also grown since 2016, although by a smaller amount, from 57% to 60%

The proportion of researchers who have never made a data set openly available has reduced in the last year

Looking deeper we can see further promise for the future of open data, as 70% of these researchers are now willing to reuse open data sets in their own research (up from 65%)

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Research Data

Data is an enabler of scientific discovery

Barriers to data sharing in STM

    • - 46% organizing data in a presentable & useful way
    • - 37% unsure about copyright & licensing
    • - 33% unsure which repository to use
    • - 26% lack of time to deposit data
    • - 19% cost of sharing data

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Research Data: Data Sharing Initiatives

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Technology Trends

Semantic web & semantic enrichment. Most publishers are not engaging

Blockchain – hype or reality?

Data, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence (ie machine learning)

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Thank you!