9th July 2020
Call for Supporters: How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Journals 2021
Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger have announced they are seeking supporters for the 6th version of their large-scale research project identifying how readers discover academic content.
Read moreSince 2005, Gardner and Inger have led three-yearly wide-ranging surveys of user behaviour, mapping the changing nature of how readers, from all over the world, find academic content.
The 2021 survey builds upon previous surveys, allowing for longitudinal analysis over the sixteen-year span, and allowing for trend analyses over time. In addition, the 2021 survey explores discovery of Open Access content in more depth, asks specific questions about the discovery of the Version of Record, and builds on the 2018 questions about discovery of academic video content.
Tracy Gardner said “Our research provides the scholarly communications community with vital information about how researchers find content, and shows the difference in discovery behaviour across disciplines, regions, sectors, and job roles. We are able to make the report openly available to our community with the support of publishers, societies and intermediaries, and are very pleased that several organisations have already expressed interest in supporting our new study.”
Simon Inger said “How researchers discover Open Access content is not as straight forward as many believe. Maximising content discovery is crucial for publishers, and we hope this research will demonstrate how we, as an industry, can make the quality content that is published Open Access as widely discoverable as possible. Please come and talk to us about how you can support this research.”
The survey will be carried out between October 2020 to January 2021.
The 2018 report and a number of presentations related to the research can be found here.
7th July 2020
Pivoting your Conference: Pandemic as the Mother of Invention, by Simon Inger
The last few months have seen a desperate scramble of societies, events organizers, and event tech companies reconfiguring the conferences they run and support, to marry up with the already-cliched “new normal”. And while many have been largely forced by time constraints to take the tried and tested conference format of old and squeeze it into an online equivalent, with parallel sessions and virtual meeting spaces (where’s Second Life when you need it?), others are taking time to pause and re-think, and taking a look at the online conference through the lens of product development.
14th April 2020
Society Street 2020 News
Society Street Virtual: Our Society Street event in Washington DC on the 26th March turned into a virtual event at very short notice and we had a lively day with many more participants than would have been able to attend the in-person event.
People told us they appreciated the opportunity to listen to some thoughtful, timely and inspiring talks, as well as to connect with colleagues in our community. The recordings of the talks, transcripts and presentations are now available so please do take a look. Also, search Twitter for #SocietyStreet2020 to see some of the discussion that took place alongside the conference.
Society Street London Date Change: Society Street London has moved from June to the 25th November 2020, still at The Law Society in London.The programme committee are currently updating the programme, which will be published in due course on www.societystreet.org. We will be asking questions that cross through membership, recruitment, publishing and meetings, as well as addressing the Coronavirus situation and its impact on current and future working.
Webinar Series: It was really clear that there was so much we could have talked about on 26th March and so to bridge the gap between now and November, we are planning on hosting a series of webinars over the next few months to explore some of the topics we either didn’t get to, or felt needed more time during our virtual conference. If you have any suggestions for topics or speakers, please do share them with us by getting in touch: tracy@societystreet.org.
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