Ten trends in scholarly publishing - Research Information

"Hello. For nearly 10 years I’ve been the editor of Research Information. Being a specialist journalist in an industry gives a fairly unique opportunity to be an informed, independent observer of that industry and that is what guided my thinking as I prepared this talk. Obviously ten trends in 20 minutes or so is a fairly tall order – each one could easily be a talk in itself. Limiting myself to ten trends was also quite hard so I have deliberately focussed along the lines of research behaviour and policy-type trends and steered away from technology trends such as formats and standards – maybe something for next year’s talk! However, I hope to give you a flavour of what going on, point to other places for further information and give my perspective on what is happening today, how this has evolved and what might happen in the future. The ten broad trends that I have chosen to cover today are: 1. General trends 2. Types of scholarly content 3. Information discovery 4. Information access 5. Purchasing approaches 6. Peer review 7. Research evaluation 8. Data and semantic enrichment 9. Preservation 10. Changing relationships These are all topics that we cover regularly in Research Information and in the transcript of this talk I will share links to articles for further information and insight ..."