The transition to Finch - the implications for academic libraries
1. The transition to Finch – the implications for
academic libraries
Jude England
Head of Social Sciences, The British Library
November 2012
2. Some statistics……
979 academic libraries Total number of serials titles
4,000 + public libraries academic libraries subscribed to almost
6 national (legal deposit) libraries tripled to 1.5m in 10 yrs
(CILIP 2008-09) to 07-08
British Library 150 million items:
13m books, 1m journals; Ave, price of UK academic book 08-
5m reports, theses and conference 09 £48.57. Range from £45.64
papers; 1.5 million visitors; 16,000 humanities to £67.57 in technology
users every day
Ethos – Database of 300,000 theses Typically serials have built-in
price increase of 5%; exchange
Phase One of UKRR released 11,000+ rates been recent problem – RIN
metres of shelving ; aims to release 100 km 2009 calculated 15% increase
by the end of 2013 (in reverse at present)
Expenditure on academic libraries:
322m, 3% of total university expenditure Expenditure on print only
in 97- 98; by 07-08, 550m, 2.1% of total and combined print and digital
(SCONUL and HESA) serials falling
3. 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
4. Looking to 2020…..
Smaller, distributed network of specialist guides
Funding Opportunity for consumers to pay what they want for content
Stories conveyed through interactive computer games
Research funding allocated on basis of economic/ social
Research impact
STM research will continue to be well funded
Increase in collaborative, multi/ inter-disciplinary research
Higher Different universities will focus on different disciplines
Education Growth in distance and online learning
Collaborative partnerships with private sector
Very tough for cultural institutions and HE
Access
New business models may yield new revenue streams
Demonstration of value critical to ensuring funding 4
6. 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
7. 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.
8. Fate of Print to 2020……
UK Books - Children, Fiction & Leisure
100%
80%
60%
UK Newspapers
40%
20% 100%
0% 80%
07
09
11
13
15
17
19
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
60%
40%
20%
Digital only 0%
07
09
11
13
15
17
19
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
Parallel
Physical only Source: Outsell, British Library
8
forecasts
9. Fate of Print to 2020……
UK Journals
100%
80%
60%
40% UK HE Monographs
20%
100%
0%
80%
07
09
11
13
15
17
19
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
60%
40%
Digital only 20%
0%
Parallel
07
09
11
13
15
17
19
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
Physical only
Source: Outsell, British Library forecasts 9
13. 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
14. Open Access and Libraries
Charles 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
15. 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
16. 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.’
17. What are the implications then?
Yes, costs, but libraries no strangers to good
budget management User behaviour
Creation of
and
Connecting core: global landscape and need to expectations
new knowledge
move past artificial and existing boundaries
Don’t assume that researchers understand OA,
especially differences between gold and green,
access, embargos, archiving Information Collection
Preservation
lifecycle and curation
Discoverability, usability, good metadata and
appropriate rights management central
Libraries key in creation of discovery, usability
and access, as well as building, curating and
Connecting Organisation
sustaining digital repositories people and
to content description
Essential to monitor and understand user
expectations and changing environment
