Key elements of current and emergent academic practice(s) in the age of AI and machine learning, and how academic libraries can develop resources, people and institutional responses.

1. What are the key issues and
opportunities in digital
scholarship and how should
libraries build services in
response?

2. Defining Digital Scholarship…
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‘Digital scholarship is the use of digital evidence
and method, digital authoring, digital publishing,
digital curation and preservation, and digital use
and reuse of scholarship.
New-model scholarly communications is what
results when we put those digital practices into
the processes of production, publishing, curation
and the use of scholarship’.
Abbey Smith Rumsey: New-Model Scholarly Communication:
Roadmap for Change

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 Evolving policies : TEF/REF,
Funder Requirements etc.
 Inter-disciplinary and subject
interoperability
 ‘Legacy knowledge’ systems,
discoverability fragmentation etc.
 Limited resources & time
 OA, Open Data, OS etc.
 Skills
 Subject adoption variation
 Value propositions – academic
behavior and rewards systems
Digital
Scholarship
Challenges
What are the key issues…

4. Digital Scholarship Challenges and Opportunities :
‘You are here’?
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Increasing the Productivity of Scholarship - Paul Groth http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2742031

5. Digital Scholarship Challenges and
Opportunities : Complexity…
 Institutional publishing
 Overlay journals
 Data citation - DataCite
 Scholarly communications
 Research data management
 Public
engagement/Storytelling
 Working with the media
 Sci-Hub
 Predatory
Publishing/Conferences
 Open Data
 UKSCL
 Research has changed forever
 Open Access
 Impact Agenda/REF
 Big Data
 Evolving manuscripts
 Altmetrics
 Open pre/post publication review
 ORCiD
 Transparent Journals
 Cloud reference management
 Mobile research apps
 DORA Declaration
 FAIR Principles
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https://figshare.com/articles/Digital_Research_Report_Interdisciplinary_Research_-_Methodologies_for_Identification_and_Assessment/4270289

6. How can Libraries respond:
Networked resources, people
and institutions.
Resources
 Interoperable
collections
 Re-envision
‘discovery’
 New
technologies
and tools
 Social media
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People
 New staff
roles/skills
 Agile
methodologies
 Challenge
‘orthodoxy’ –
do we make it
easy for users
Institutions
 New service
provisions to
meet users
needs
 Advocacy
and
engagement
 Shared
services

7. Lorcan Dempsey…
‘Changes in research and learning
behaviors and expectations are more
important for the academic library than
any library technology changes per se.
Similarly, how networking reshapes
library organisation, collaboration, and
scope will have more impact in the
medium term than any particular local
technology adoption.’
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https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5568/a103732d611e6dc28f3d92c0e2e08dc8f890.pdf

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How can libraries respond : People : Advocacy
and Engagement
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9. How can libraries respond: Networked institutions
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Academics
Students
Alumni
Library Teams
Library
Operational
Plans/Strategy
Informal
networking
Social
Media,
UoS/Library
Comms
Information
Hub
Dept.
Meetings
Professional
Services
Key Surveys
(NSS, PTES
etc.)
Liaison
Events/A
ctivities Data/Analyti
cs
Sector
engagement

10. How can libraries respond : Networked resources
and data : ‘Above campus’ shared services
RDM Shared Services
 CARL Portage
(Canada)
 ANDS (Australia)
 Jisc Research Data
Service (UK)
 DANS (Netherlands)
 Springer DMS
(Germany)
Resources Shared Services
 DPLA
 Europeana
 HathiTrust
 Medical History Online
 PubMed
 Recap
 UKRR
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11. How can libraries respond : Networked Institutions:
Consortia and Institutional OA Publishing
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http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6666/1/Changing-publishing-ecologies-report.pdf

12. Issues to consider:
» Research environment
» Support for digital copyright
and IPR
» Support for open and
public scholarship
» Influence of digital scholarship on
research impact
» Subject specialist requirements
» Researcher development
» Support for digital enterprise and
innovation
» Centres of digital excellence
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How can libraries respond: Networked institution:
Jisc digital capability framework:
How well is the organisation supporting digital scholarship/innovation?
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/building-digital-capability
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6610/1/JFL0066F_DIGICAP_MOD_ORG_FRAME.PDF

13. How can libraries respond : Networked People
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14. How can libraries respond : Networked Resources
✗"The experience of working
with this University's historical
materials has long been an
contemporary concern, Harvard
is making that experience
available to students and
teachers irreplaceable part of a
Harvard education. Now, by
developing subject-based digital
collections on topics of
everywhere.”
Sidney Verba
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http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu

15. How can libraries respond: Networked
Resources : New Priorities
Co-curation of collections:
 Selection: by academics
 Curation: by librarians
 Description; by students/scholars
Cross-disciplinary Research/Study:
 Stop: reliance on current Knowledge Systems
 Start: Innovation with AI/Machine Learning/Translating
expertise into a formula/OS
 Continue: Adding value to the UX/UI (‘Understanding
academics’, York and ‘User Interactions with resources’,
Wellcome)
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16. How can libraries respond: Networked Resources:
Shift from discovery to discoverability
In an environment where discovery increasingly happens elsewhere (in Google,
Google Scholar, Wikipedia, Research Gate, and so on), libraries become more
interested in effectively disclosing their resources to network services, to
making them more discoverable.
Services like DPLA and WorldCat.org play a role here, as do other aggregation
services such as the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase.
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17. How can libraries respond: Networked people
Discovering digitised content
Catalogues: http://explore.bl.uk for printed
materials ('I want this' will list digitised
items); http://searcharchives.bl.uk for archives and
manuscripts
Digitised manuscripts, Illuminated manuscripts and
Hebrew manuscripts
British Library sounds for music, drama and
literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental
sounds
Flickr - particularly rich in images from 19th century
books
Wikimedia Commons
International Dunhuang Project (IDP) - manuscripts,
paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and
archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road
Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) -
international digitisation projects
data.bl.uk - text, images and catalogue 'metadata'
datasets available for research and creative re-use
British National Bibliography metadata
Learning about digital scholarship
The British Library's Digital Scholarship
pages list digital datasets, staff, case studies
and projects
BL Labs Awards and Competitions are a
great source of inspiration
The British Library's Digital Scholarship blog
(you're reading it right now!) and twitter
account @Bl_DigiSchol
Humanist mailing list
Events with online / in-person sessions
include IHR Digital History Seminar and
Digital Classicist
The Institute of Historical Research offers
training courses or there's the Programming
Historian
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18. How can libraries respond : Networked institutions
Shared Infrastructure
 California Digital
Library (USA)
 The Scholar’s Portal
(Ontario, Canada)
Shared Bibliographic
Services
 Bibsys (Norway)
 ABES (France)
 DBC (Denmark
 IZUM (Slovenia)
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https://scholarsportal.info

19. How can libraries respond : Networked
Institutions: Embed in life-cycle and workflow
● Preparation
● Discovery
● Analysis
● Writing
● Publication
● Outreach
● Assessment
 Across entire
workflow
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Framework based on 101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication
https://figshare.com/articles/101_Innovations_in_Scholarly_Communication_the_Changing_Research_Workflow/1286826

20. How can libraries respond : Networked Institutions :
Value and positioning
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https://www.oclc.org/research/awareness-to-funding-2018.html

21. How can libraries respond: Networked
resources : History of Judaism
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https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zyYzvU02PHke9Fk8Wnyf66uoFAmRPhwB&usp=sharing

22. How can libraries respond: Networked
resources : ‘Southampton Central’
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23. How can libraries respond : Network resources:
Finance…
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How can libraries respond : Context

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