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do is actively listen, be collaborative, and get more and more comfortable with change – whatever form it may take.
What do you think will be the key developments in scholarly communications in the next decade? Well for one, my hope is that we start to see cleaner, more consistently accessible data about our industry and more co-operation on the part of different players in the ecosystem to make data available. Related to (and to some degree dependent on) that, I believe we’ll see more extensive and expert use of data in operations, product and/or artifact development, research and governance, even by organisations that don’t have data teams or data scientists on staff. This will be due in part to increasingly
available tools and technologies that make data more accessible and easier to work with. It will also be due to earlier moving or well-funded players demonstrating key questions and use cases that smaller players will leverage. A large part of the issue we have leveraging data today is that we can’t always formulate good questions (such as questions, that, when investigated, yield actionable insights).
To be clear, my statements are not solely
related to publishers, but to all players in the industry. Libraries will understand usage and value associated with research, publishing, and reading activities. Funders will have increased understanding of the impact their funding dollars have on society. Researchers will publish more of their work at different stages and in different forms, and all of that activity will yield information on how the process truly works, how to best leverage it, and how to effectively communicate it.
Is there a ‘key moment’ that stands out from your personal time in scholarly communications? Most of my key moments have been when I’ve been in the presence of physician and scientist editors and researchers. That’s when I get to reaffirm why we do what we do and why it matters. One year on my birthday I was having dinner with a group of astrophysicists. The leader of the group apologised that I was spending my birthday with them (and she bought me a present!). Meanwhile, I had just texted my husband, telling him that it was so exciting to spend my birthday with a group of domestic and international world-class
astrophysicists. It was one of my favourite birthdays ever. The next week I had dinner with a group of
microbiologists! It’s a privilege to be a part of such esteemed company.
Any interesting facts, pastimes or hobbies that you want to tell us about? This is always the hardest question for me to answer because I don’t really have hobbies. I love to spend time with my family, especially my daughter’s two small children. They are so young and curious – I love watching them figure out how the world works. I also enjoy my two cats (Ziggy and Jones, named for David Bowie) and my chameleon (Bertie, named for King George VI). They are fascinating and diverse creatures (I include my grandsons in that!). They approach their worlds so differently and help me to explore different perspectives. We recently ran an Ask The Chefs question on the Scholarly Kitchen, about how we stay relevant or continue to refine our skills. What I realised is that my real pastime is continuing to learn and grow, because what I do is also what I love.
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