lecture presented by Pio Salvador R. Omana, resource speaker of the 2nd Marina G. Dayrit Lecture Series held on March 27, 2015 at Lyceum of the Philippines University, Manila

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Presented By
Date
Role of Librarians in Digital Scholarship
Pio Omana
2015 March

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Going Digital with Elsevier
Where can ELSEVIER help?
What is Digital Scholarship today?
Defining what it is
Summary
How important are you?
Help define the standards of digital scholarship

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What is Digital Scholarship ?

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is the use of digital evidence, methods of inquiry, research, publication
and preservation to achieve scholarly and research goals.
Digital scholarship can encompass both scholarly communication using
digital media and research on digital media.
An important aspect of digital scholarship is the effort to establish
digital media and social media as credible, professional and legitimate
means of research and communication.

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What are the general drivers
for this movement?
• Knowledge synthesis
• Publishing in electronic-only journals
(hyperlinked)
• Desire for feedback on work
• Need to connect/interact/collaborate with other
scholars
• D.S. is less expensive and more flexible than
print publishing
• Access
• Ability to merge scholarship with teaching

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Current constraint /
inhibitors?
• Digital can’t replace the human interactive experience
• Lack of institutional recognition
• Intellectual property concerns
• Lack of trust in the future of technologies
• Preservation/standards rollover/digital migration
• Credibility and authenticity
• Lack of literacy regarding digital information
• Time
• Technical knowledge
• Worries about security

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Why digital scholarship?

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“I think that the digital media are interesting enough in
their own right to be worth originating something in.
Because, really, the moment you have any idea, the
second thought that enters your mind after the
original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a
movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it
a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your
decision about what kind of thing it is then
determines how it develops. So something will be
very, very different if it's developed as a CD-ROM
than if it's developed as a book.
- Douglas Adams, Interview with The Onion A.V. Club
(1998)

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why digital scholarship?
○ - Bringing computing power to old humanities questions -
Working “with machines in ways and on scales that our
brains cannot” - Michelle Moravec
○ - Bringing different fields together
○ - Bringing students into research & original work
○ - Making scholarship broadly accessible
○ - Exploring relationships between culture and technology
○ - COLLABORATION

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Researchers are looking for a tool that will…
Help me to discover the
relevant information
Keep me informed of the latest
developments and news
Give me access to the
detail
Make the process quick
and easy
Source: Qualitative survey results “value of ScienceDirect A&G Researchers” June 2014

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Some types of DIGITAL Scholarship

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How important are YOU?

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Some questions you need to consider..
• What is driving Digital Scholarship? Is there
a question of purpose or definitions?
• What are the current constraints and
inhibitors? Time, money, tenure
considerations?
• What are the success factors?
• What has enabled you to engage in digital
scholarship?
• What works? What kind of academic
support have you found useful?

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process | product
digital pedagogy & digital projects

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pedagogy (process)
goal: exposes students to
the potential for
technology to enhance
or alter learning &
research; includes
reflection on the impact
of the tech on learning
digital scholarship is either process or product or both
research project (product)
goal: provides a long term
digital scholarly resource
that takes advantage of
the networked aspects of
the Internet to further
knowledge generation

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planning for a digital scholarship project
3.
managing
the project
4.
sustaining
the project
2.
identifying
the team
1.
defining
the goals

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define goals using design-thinking
methodology
○ - interview potential end users
● scholars, dh community, students, general public, etc.
○ - who is your audience for the project?
○ - how will it be used?
○ - how is it unique from other scholarly projects?
○ - how can others (scholars or general public)
participate/contribute?
○ - Pro activeness of Libraries

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digital scholarship projects:
collaboration is key...
Faculty/ScholarsLibrary/IT Students

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developing a digital scholarship project is a networked process
library/IT
○ copyright
○ Metadata
○ preservation
○ project
management
○ user experience
(UX) design
○ tool identification
○ upgrades
○ training/support
faculty/scholars
○ subject matter
expertise
○ project goals
○ shared authorship
students
○ technical assistance
○ research assistance
○ prototype build/test

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Managing your digital scholarship project
○ - roles, responsibilities
○ - timelines and dependencies
○ - prototyping
○ - testing/feedback/iteration

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Project Thinking

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Sustaining your digital scholarship project
○ - plan for regular upgrades and updates to your
project (2-3 year life cycle)
○ - collaborate with IT on long term space, tool and
support needs
○ - collaborate with library on preservation strategy
& inclusion in institutional repository
○ - Keen consideration of your partners witihin the
project

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Going digital with Elsevier!

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3.93
3.43
2.92
2.86
2.70
2.52
2.51
Available on my mobile device
No digital rights management
Integrated with other online sources such…
Available to my students for free
Available when library is closed
Easier to find
Easier to search
Answered question 1846
1750
1674
1766
1786
1765
1818
1790
Data Source: 2012 Elsevier global market research study;
responses from 2815 teachers.
“…online books help in finding teaching material easily from contents; saves time, and provides
all relevant topics in one place.” Hussein Abdalla Hussein, University of Bahri/ Khartoum/Sudan
Teachers Rank the Benefits of eBooks
(over printed books) in the library

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E-books cost less than
print books to maintain
Cost Element Print Electronic
Space High Much less
Cleaning Low Much less
Maintenance Medium Much less
Electricity/climate control Low Somewhat less
Staffing Low Somewhat less
Circulation/Access Low Much less
Source: Paul N. Courant and Matthew “Buzzy” Nielsen , On The Cost of Keeping A Book, The Idea of Order:
Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship, June 2010

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E-book cost per use
is superior to Print
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Amount
Spent
Total
Uses
Cost Per
Use
2007 $185,991
2008 $224,047 151,089 $1.48
2009 $204,678 251,273 $0.81
2010 $383,167 563,871 $0.68
2011 $732,725 709,944 $1.05
E‐books vs. Print books
$18 lowest cost per use
for Print books
compared to
$1 average cost per use
for e‐books
$18 lowest cost per use
for Print books
compared to
$1 average cost per use
for e‐books
Source: The Value of E-books to Academic Libraries, A
Study of the E-books Catalogue at the University of
Illinois, Urbana Champaign, LIBVALUE, May 2011
Source: CARLI, 2008, A Domestic Monograph Collection
Assessment in Illinois Academic Libraries: What are we
buying and how is it used?

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Source: IDC report “Extracting Value from Chaos” 6/11

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Choosing your partners..
○ - Information on demand
○ - competencies inclined with needs
○ - Support in advocacy
○ - Provides data and information for
baseline needs

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Libraries in the Philippines..
Average Spending of
E‐P
Institutions have
Electronic Materials
Have infrastructure to
gain electronic
content

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Promote research
dissemination
Generate
knowledge across
priority sectors
Enhance research
productivity
Support for Higher Education Reform
Improve research
capability
National Higher Education Research Agenda 2; and
Roadmap – Public Higher Education Reform
1. Knowledge and technologies  to advance national development and competitiveness
2. Develop globally competitive universities by investing in R&D and extension, and modern facilities
Publicly‐funded HEIs as main instruments to meet needs of industry, public service and civil society
Philippine Development Plan (2011‐2016)
“In pursuit of inclusive growth”

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Philippines vs South-east Asia Research Output – Malaysia’s spectacular
growth
Singapore
12%
22%
15%
16%
13%
8%

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Steadily Improving Value despite slowing output…
Get cited Read
Publish Cite
Disseminate
Get cited share
Cite Trend
Investigate
Publication share
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Case in point: Philippines – CHED 10
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Coverage: Approximately 5,000
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CHED 10 Contributing to National Research Growth
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Universities: University of the Philippines, University of Sto. Tomas, De La Salle
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SUMMARY
Key takeaways :
1. Promote COLLABORATION - not just within the
institution but think outside of the box.
2. Make a SHORT term and LONG term digitalization
plan
3. YOU are very important, be capable and decide on
the things you need
4. ACT together, same vision one GOAL
5. BUDGET gap will always have a story to tell
6. Take the INITIATIVE
7. INNOVATION opens up new possibilities

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Make information and research SEXY! – Dr. Nap Juanillo, CHED

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THANK YOU
p.omana@elsevier.com