And most regularly these big players acquire the most innovative start-ups as well.Īt TIB, Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology, located in Hannover, Germany, our work is driven by the assumption that libraries and researchers together will have to develop new, open approaches to platforms and metrics. Both big legacy publishers as well as new big online businesses line up in this competition. Researchers and institutions are invited to trust even more platforms today, sucking in even more and more detailed data about the researchers and what they are doing, coming up with even more mindless metrics.
The rise of the social, interactive web, and the success of Open Access did not necessarily led to an improvement, in this regard. References to metrics like the journal impact factor are found across academic job postings internationally, and are often used to allocate research funding. Since the last 20 years or so, we increasingly got used to rely on standards of the scholarly publishing industry when it comes to decision making. What is a successful research result, after all? Or more generally, what is a research product?Īnd: What role do the researchers themselves play in answering these questions, what role do society and the economy play in this?
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