Embracing emerging opportunities in scholarly communication
Deborah Kahn, Publishing Director, Taylor & Francis
Scholarly Summit, Sydney
February 2019
Academic endeavour is changing
21st C Researchers
• Digital natives
• Expect instant access and easy sharing
• Highly collaborative and globally networked
• Increasingly interdisciplinary
• Heterogeneous
• Data producers
• Need credit and real world impact
• Peripatetic
• Overstretched
• Subject to conflicting demands of funders and institutions
Trust and transparency
Key 21st Century challenges
Reproducibility
Impact
Transparency
Collaboration
Multi-language
Cross-border
Interdisciplinary
Fully digital environment
Young scholars
sOpportunities
• Evolve new services and business models
• Embrace data and transparency
• Uphold ethics and integrity
• Ensure diversity of authors, reviewers, editorial board members
• Employ technology to support human decision making
Questions?