Presentation by RIN's Director, Michael Jubb, at the Association of Subscription Agents' annual conference in February 2010. http://www.subscription-agents.org/conferences/asa-conference-2010

1. Futures for scholarly journals: a researcher perspective Michael Jubb Research Information Network ASA Conference London, 23 February 2010

3. Researchers as consumers

4. What do researchers want to find and use?

6. ……… and journals are but one part of a rich pattern of information use

7. The research process: animal genetics

8. research process: transgenesis & embryology

9. research process: epidemiology

10. research process: neuroscience

12. Different roles and activities: who or where is your information coming from?

16. Researchers as creators

18. Productivity?

19. Publications by type 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 2003 2008 2003 2008 2003 2008 2003 2008 2003 2008 2003 2008 2003 2008 Biosciences &-medicine Physical sciences Engineering Social sciences Humanities Education Total Article Book Book chapter Proceedings Book review Editorial Meeting abstract Other

20. Importance of scholarly journals

21. Importance of conference proceedings

22. Importance of monographs

25. Work in progress?

26. Work in progress?

27. Changes in scholarly communications? 28% 27% 27% 31% 19% No opinion 51% 50% 52% 49% 47% Unlikely 21% 23% 21% 20% 34% Likely Open access online publication supported by an 'author-pays' funding model will predominate 5% 14% 16% 11% 11% No opinion 13% 18% 7% 20% 18% Unlikely 82% 68% 76% 69% 72% Likely New types of online publication, using new kinds of media formats and content, will grow in importance 26% 18% 18% 9% 15% No opinion 38% 41% 38% 54% 42% Unlikely 36% 41% 45% 37% 44% Likely Formal peer review will be increasingly complemented by reader-based ratings, annotations, downloads or citations 5% 18% 11% 14% 6% No opinion 56% 52% 50% 51% 63% Unlikely 38% 30% 39% 34% 31% Likely Existing peer review processes will become increasingly unsustainable Research Fellow Lecturer Senior Lecturer Reader Professor The likelihood of the following changes in scholarly communications within your field over the next 5 years

28. Web 2.0?

29. New kinds of articles?