Nicholas, David and Watkinson, Anthony and Abrizah, Abdullah and Rodriguez-Bravo, Blanca and Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Cherifa and Xu, Jie and Swigon, Marzena and Herman, Eti (2020) Does the scholarly communication system satisfy the beliefs and aspirations of new researchers? Summarizing the Harbingers research. Learned Publishing, 33 (2). pp. 132-141. ISSN 0953-1513, DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1284.
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A study from the Harbingers research project provides a comprehensive assessment of the main features of the scholarly communications system as viewed by early career researchers (ECRs) in the final year of the study (2018). Aspects covered are: discovery and access, authorship practices, peer review, publishing strategies, open access publishing, open data, sharing, collaboration, social media, metrics, impact, reputation, libraries, publishers, and scholarly transformations. Nearly 120 science and social science researchers from seven countries were questioned about these 16 aspects. It was found that some scholarly features work well for ECRs, and in this category can be included: discovery and access, authorship practices, sharing, collaboration, and publishers. Reputation, publishing strategies, and impact are more problematical, and they, in turn, cause tensions regarding some other factors - social media, open access, and open data. Of the rest, libraries are largely invisible, and ECRs have conflicting views concerning ethical behaviour. Few envisage that transformational change will take place in the next 5 years.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Publishing Research Consortium, Construction Plan of World-Class Universities and First-Class Disciplines at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals, China, Universiti Malaya (BKS079-2017) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Early career researchers; Scholarly communications; Publishing behaviour; Reputation |
| Subjects: | Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Libraries > Library science. Information science |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Department of Library and Information Sience |
| Depositing User: | Ms Zaharah Ramly |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2023 03:49 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Mar 2023 03:49 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/37212 |
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