The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship
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Group leaders Summary The advent of large language models has lately and precipitously increased the demand for scientific publications for AI training, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation. However, these use cases are frequently proscribed by the terms of institutional content access licenses. While market solutions are slowly emerging and appellate court precedents still pending, in the
Group leaders Summary This Working Group will explore the gap between global scholarly infrastructure and local research practices, with a focus on how persistent identifiers and related infrastructures are understood, adopted, and used across diverse regional, institutional, and disciplinary contexts. Drawing on the perspectives of community-facing practitioners (such as librarians, editors, and research support staff),
Group leaders Summary Scholarly publications play a crucial role in designing any hypothesis, projects, reports, thesis etc. and are helpful in making policies. Besides growing rapidly much of it remains locked in unstructured formats such as PDFs and lengthy reports, limiting reuse, synthesis, and policy relevance. The growth of large volumes of scholarly publications has
Group leaders Summary A growing set of actors are hosting large research information datasets in shared spaces, notably in Google BigQuery. This working group will act to coordinate amongst current contributors and work towards community standards for discovery, processing, preservation and documentation. It will also seek to build a community around future alternatives to proprietary
The disconnect between “what science says” — yielded as a shield to shut down a conversation rather than as contextual evidence to drive discussions forward — and the extent to which conclusions can be drawn from the referenced results of scientific studies is becoming increasingly apparent
A crowd-sourced mapping of peer review resources for a global research community to be informed and continue to co-create what we see as useful best practices and community standards
Librarians are looking for ways to evaluate publishers in order to make more informed collection investment decisions. A rubric that evaluates journal publishers’ practices for alignment with library values has been developed as part of the Library Partnership Rating (LPR)
Research is often more than the text content, and can include both the software and computational environments to reproduce work. These can be shared by researchers as computational notebooks, however, scholarly communications infrastructure is currently poorly positioned to both display, interact with, and archive that content
There is a clear need for data repositories and journals to work more closely together to streamline and harmonize workflows for data sharing. Currently, each industry’s practices prove to be at odds in many circumstances
In the evaluation of the use of shared data, a question that often arises is the context for the use of the data. The community wants to understand if the dataset is being used in the context of data-sharing as part of the original research (i.e. the authors mention a dataset they have created and shared) or whether the data is being used in new research endeavors (i.e. reused by other researchers, or by the same researchers for a new research project)
The working group “Developing research assessment criteria for the use of AI in scientific and scholarly publications (RA4AI)” will develop comprehensive criteria for assessing the use and impact of AI in scholarly communication processes
The Rebuilding Scholarly Communication and Research Community in Post-Conflict context (ReSCORE) working group focuses on establishing sustainable research infrastructure and enhancing scholarly communication in regions recovering from conflict. While starting with Somalia as a pilot case, the group will develop scalable resources and frameworks applicable to other post-conflict and under-resourced settings
