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Roger C. Schonfeld
Roger C. Schonfeld is director of Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums for Ithaka S+R.
At Ithaka S+R, Roger leads a team of methodological experts and analysts that conduct research and provide advisory services to drive evidence-based innovation and leadership among libraries, publishers, and museums to foster research, learning, and preservation. This has included extensive survey research of faculty members, students, and the directors of libraries and museums, as well as collaborative qualitative studies that have examined research practices and support needs in ten academic disciplines involving more than 100 universities. Additional research and policy projects have sought to bolster organizational leadership, diversity and community engagement, and collections management and preservation. The team provides strategic guidance and advisory services for content providers, software companies, university presses, and academic libraries on the transformation of scholarly communications and the research workflow. Ithaka S+R is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also operates Artstor, JSTOR, and Portico, but the views shared here are solely Roger’s.
Roger currently serves on advisory committees for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and the Center for Research Libraries. Previously, he has served on the NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force for Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access and NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative. Roger has testified before the US House of Representatives on government publishing, advocating for strong approaches to digital preservation. He has authored dozens of research reports, articles, and briefing papers.
Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There, he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press, 2000). He also wrote JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), focusing on the development of a sustainable not-for-profit business model for the digitization and preservation of scholarly texts. He received degrees in library and information science from Syracuse University and in English Literature from Yale University.
Roger is active on Twitter as @rschon.
At Ithaka S+R, Roger leads a team of methodological experts and analysts that conduct research and provide advisory services to drive evidence-based innovation and leadership among libraries, publishers, and museums to foster research, learning, and preservation. This has included extensive survey research of faculty members, students, and the directors of libraries and museums, as well as collaborative qualitative studies that have examined research practices and support needs in ten academic disciplines involving more than 100 universities. Additional research and policy projects have sought to bolster organizational leadership, diversity and community engagement, and collections management and preservation. The team provides strategic guidance and advisory services for content providers, software companies, university presses, and academic libraries on the transformation of scholarly communications and the research workflow. Ithaka S+R is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also operates Artstor, JSTOR, and Portico, but the views shared here are solely Roger’s.
Roger currently serves on advisory committees for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and the Center for Research Libraries. Previously, he has served on the NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force for Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access and NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative. Roger has testified before the US House of Representatives on government publishing, advocating for strong approaches to digital preservation. He has authored dozens of research reports, articles, and briefing papers.
Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There, he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press, 2000). He also wrote JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), focusing on the development of a sustainable not-for-profit business model for the digitization and preservation of scholarly texts. He received degrees in library and information science from Syracuse University and in English Literature from Yale University.
Roger is active on Twitter as @rschon.
Articles by Roger C. Schonfeld
Why Is the Digital Preservation Network Disbanding?
Preservation is an imperative for our community, yet the
Digital Preservation Network is disbanding. What lessons can we learn
from its struggle?
Elsevier Chairman YS Chi: An Interview
Today’s post features an interview of Elsevier’s chairman
Youngsuk (“YS”) Chi, conducted by ITHAKA president Kevin Guthrie during
the opening session of ITHAKA’s Next Wave conference. It features
discussion and perspective not only about Elsevier itself and its
strategic direction, but also about broader changes in scholarly
communication and approaches to organizational leadership.
The Scholarly Kitchen’s Readership Survey: Demographic Analysis
Continuing our efforts to benefit from this year’s reader
survey, today we share some stratified analysis by gender,
race/ethnicity, and age and an update on efforts to diversify our
contributors and perspectives.
Learning Lessons from DPLA
A not-for-profit library collaborative, the Digital
Public Library of America, laid off six members of its small team and is
announcing a strategic pivot. What are some of the broader lessons
that we can learn about innovation and collaboration in the scholarly
communications sector?
The New CLOCKSS Succession Plan: An Interview with Executive Director Craig Van Dyck
This week, CLOCKSS has announced its new Succession Plan,
a key component of its preservation strategy. Today, Roger Schonfeld
interviews CLOCKSS executive director Craig van Dyck about the
announcement and other digital preservation issues.
Will Publishers Syndicate Their Content?
Last week’s STM news raises questions about whether
scholarly publishers are prepared to radically improve content
distribution. Is content syndication the end game?
Read and Publish: Is It Good for the Academy?
Will Read and Publish models transform the scholarly
journal publishing business? And if they do, will it be good for the
academy?
Advocating for Change by Limiting New Business: An Interview with BTAA’s Kimberly Armstrong
Library consortia are taking stronger positions with
scholarly publishers, not just in Europe but in North America as well.
In this interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Kimberly Armstrong about
BTAA’s principles, concerns, and tactics.
Will Europe Lead a Global Flip to Open Access?
There appears to be no realistic path forward that
achieves Europe’s 2020 open access targets without resulting in
substantial revenue reductions for existing publishers. Will Europe miss
its OA target? Or will publishers miss their revenue targets?
Will the European Big Deal Contagion Spread to North America?
The European academic sector has taken a stronger
consortial negotiating posture, resulting in Big Deal cancellations.
Today, equity investors and analysts want to know: Will this contagion
spread from Europe to North America, resulting in global pandemic?
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