
A UC Davis IFHA Project
Powerful changes are affecting traditional systems of research publication, academic credit, research quality assessment, and the meaning of “publication”: the increasing scale and interdisciplinary nature of collaborations; the growing reliance on cyberinfrastructure for producing and disseminating research; the impact of Open Access models and economic dysfunction on traditional publishing; the transformation of data from evidence for research results to research output itself; new metrics of impact; new forms of misconduct and detection; doubts about peer review as quality guarantor; the impact of intellectual property on the content and timing of publications.
The “Innovation in Scholarly Communication” (ICIS) project will analyze these changes and help shape the future of scholarly communication. The ICIS project is a collaboration between Mario Biagioli (UC Davis School of Law), MacKenzie Smith (UC Davis University Librarian) and Jonathan Eisen (UC Davis Genome Center). In collaboration with colleagues from many departments across campus, we will focus on three sets of issues emblematic of these changes: 1) “New Models of Scholarly Communication”; 2) “New Misconduct and New Opportunities”, and 3) “Communicating with Data.”
The scholarly communication system affects scholars and scientists across all fields and levels. It also frames the policies of administrators evaluating and funding them, and of libraries confronting new forms of scholarly communication based on new technologies of discourse delivery. These trends are profoundly changing the role of the university, and we want to lead their direction.
This project is funded by the UC Davis Interdisciplinary Frontiers in the Humanities and the Arts (IFHA) Program.
ICIS Projects
ICIS Events
ICIS Blog Posts
#OpenGlobalSouth Slides and Video
An Open Digital Global South: Risks and Rewards UC Davis Law School, Room 1001 May 25-26, 2017 Click here to watch the conference recordings. DAY 1: FRAMING ...
An Open Digital Global South, May 25-26, 2017
An Open Digital Global South: Risks and Rewards UC Davis Law School, Room 1001 May 25-26, 2017 Please note that this event has concluded. Conference video is ...
People
Principal Investigators
Postdoctoral Fellows
Scholarly Communications Officer, UC Davis Library
- Michael Wolfe
Graduate Student Researchers
- Carlos Andres Barragan
- Ladan Doroud
- Marisano James
- Russell Neches
Postdoctoral Fellow Alum
- Allison Fish (University of Indiana)
- Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto)