Does the scholarly communication system satisfy the beliefs and aspirations of new researchers? Summarizing the Harbingers research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2020
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Early career researchers, Scholarly communications, Publishing behaviour, Reputation
Divisions
library
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)
Publication Title
Learned Publishing
Volume
33
Issue
2
Publisher
Wiley
Publisher Location
111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA