STM Solutions has provided sponsorship to enable Ithaka S+R, a not-for-profit higher education research and consulting organization, to research and produce a white paper that examines the shared and essential scholarly communications infrastructure. Work on the paper is to begin immediately. A draft will be made available for public comment prior to the final publication slated for fall 2023. The paper will be freely available to all.
As the rapid evolution of research communication continues, and the academic record grows, dozens of platforms and tools, and services have emerged - many of which play an essential role in the discovery, communication, and interpretation of research findings.
This project will enable a deeper understanding of this infrastructure, to identify weak points as well as opportunities for innovation and future development that will better support the needs of researchers, funders, publishers and librarians. Long-term trends in scholarly publication and how those trends place new and/or changing demands on the infrastructure will also be examined. Finally, a gap analysis will identify issues that currently are not being sufficiently addressed, where additional investments are needed, and where collective action is required.
Among those key stakeholders who will be interviewed during the research portion of the work will be: authors/researchers, funding agencies, publishers, libraries, organizations that provide services for scholarly communications, and organizations that represent these stakeholders.
Ithaka S+R will have full editorial independence in the production of this paper.
This work is supported by funding from the American Chemical Society, Elsevier, IEEE, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley.
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