RSVP RequestedSponsored by RittenhouseThis year’s sponsored but no holds barred health sciences lively lunchtime gathering is open to all. It will begin with greetings from luncheon sponsor, Rittenhouse. Moderator Jean Gudenas will introduce the session and will provide some introductory remarks about this year’s three presentations: a report on a survey, a report on a research study, and a technology update. All three topics should provide fodder for lively discussion at the end.
Ramune Kubilius will provide a brief annual traditional update on developments in the health sciences publishing world. She will then segue to highlighting some findings from a survey she and two co-authors conducted in early 2018 of AAHSL (Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries) members on medical school institutional repositories. She will focus on responses related to collections and formats housed in respondents’ repositories and some other survey responses of a scholarly communication nature.
Are early career researchers the harbingers of change? Anthony Watkinson will share some findings from a three year (2015-2018) worldwide CIBER longitudinal research study on early career researchers that was commissioned by the Publishing Research Consortium. He will focus on highlighting what medical researchers in countries, including the U.S., where surveys were conducted, think about scholarly communications and scholarly publishing.
Does the RA21 project hold promise for keeping access secure in the future? There is no doubt that all libraries, and particularly health sciences libraries, have an interest in and mandate to provide secure access to content. John Felts will provide a broad approach to the topic, beginning with background and a review of some current technologies. He will then provide some insights as to what expectations we can have from initiatives such as RA21, with its mission: “to align and simplify pathways to subscribed content across participating scientific platforms…”
