Given the importance of research support and enablement for so many scholarly publishers and academic librarians, we have decided to add this pre-recorded Session, which was presented to CNI on 15 December 2020.
Speakers: Jane Radecki, Analyst, Oya Y. Rieger, Senior Strategist, and Roger C. Schonfield, Director of Libraries, Scholarly Communications, and Museums, Ithaca S+R, New York. Introduction by Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition of Networked Information (CNI).
 Universities are becoming more sophisticated in their management of the research enterprise, a significant element of their mission and also a major source of revenue that remains strong even during this year’s disruptions. This year, at Ithaka S+R we have been examining the state of the academic research enterprise — how it is managed, the strategic priorities that universities are pursuing for it, and the disruptions caused by the pandemic.
 You can also read the two papers from which we presented. Our landscape review of the pandemic’s disruptions to the research enterprise emphasized financial and budgetary impacts, research project impacts, and the human impacts. This project, sponsored by Springer Nature, was principally conducted by Jane Radecki, and Roger C. Schonfeld contributed to it.
 Additionally, Oya Y. Rieger and Roger C. Schonfeld examined the role of the senior research officer, a generic title for the vice provost, vice president, or vice chancellor of research. We interviewed 44 of these research leaders from the largest research universities in the US, examining the nature of the role itself, key responsibilities and collaborators, and strategic priorities and challenges. Ex Libris sponsored this project.

The Academic Research Enterprise: Structure, Leadership, Challenges, and Adaptation

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The First Publishing Event in the New Year! Full Unlimited Online Coverage! Was that the real beginning of the new 21st Century? Global challenges changing lives on a scale never seen before – a global pandemic, ferocious evidence of climate change and biodiversity loss, and cyber warfare influencing global leadership against a backdrop where evidence and experts are increasingly discounted in place of tribes with their own truths. Research is increasingly having to step up to meet global challenges and we need robust responses to reclaim trust in both scholarly publishing and the expertise of researchers as we map the path to the future. Covid-19 stress-tested scholarly communication and there’s room for improvement but also inspiration for change. A changing world has led to new solutions and new players – but are they robust and tested for long-term trust? Pre-prints proved a rapid way to communicate potentially crucial findings in a crisis but is the world ready to understand the implications of reading un-tested research? Peer review, the bastion of trusted science, is under scrutiny from those within and outside research and with calls for transparency and openness in science, where next for dissemination of research findings? 2021 is the start of a very new and very different period in history and we come together with purpose and a collaborative spirit.
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