Google for "research life cycle" and you'll find a million images. Everyone has their own cycle, not all of them compatible. In this talk I argue that we need to move from a cycle conception of research information flows towards one based on networks. The library has the skills and values to act as a professional guide to this terriroty.

1. Scholarly Practice 2015-25
From Life Cycles to Networks and the Role of the Library
Cameron Neylon - @cameronneylon - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0068-716X

2. THE STATE OF THE LIFE CYCLE
2Hussein Abdullah: https://www.flickr.com/photos/husseinabdallah/6699337815 CC BY

3. European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/ireland/press_office/media_centre/jul2014_en.htm 3

4. Martin Donnelly: http://www.slideshare.net/martindonnelly/winning-horizon-2020-with-open-science4

5. http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/science-in-the-youtube-age-527822 5

6. DataOne: https://www.dataone.org/best-practices 6

7. University of Washington: http://www.washington.edu/research/guide/cycle.html 7

8. Simon Fraser University: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/research-commons/research/research-lifecycle 8

9. Hervé L’Hours: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/1691 9

10. Hervé L’Hours: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/1691 10

11. Digital Curation Centre (UK): http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model 11

12. http://nrelscience.org/2014/06/10/the-data-lifecycle-part-1-data-management-for-open-
access-5-questions-to-ask-about-your-data/ 12

13. Jisc: http://tools.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/vre-lifecycle/index.html 13

14. https://www.campusmanagement.tu-berlin.de/menue/enterprise_resource_management_erm/
arbeitsgruppen/ag_prozesse/ 14

15. Pierre-Yves Burgi: https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/session/3/contribution/9 15

16. Simple cyclic model of the research workflow
analysis
writingpublication
outreach
assessment discovery
preparation
Kramer & Bosman: https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/session/10/contribution/24

17. Multi-cyclic model of the research workflow
preparation
analysis
writingpublication
outreach
assessment discovery
Rounds of grant
writing
and application
Iterations of
search and
reading
Drafting, receiving
comments,rewriting
Submit, peer review,
rejection,
resubmitting
Rounds of
experiments and
measurements
Kramer & Bosman: https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/session/10/contribution/24

18. Multi-cyclic model of the research workflow,
with loops
preparation
analysis
writingpublication
outreach
assessment discovery
Rounds of grant
writing
and application
Iterations of
search and
reading
Drafting, receiving
comments,rewriting
Submit, peer review,
rejection,
resubmitting
Rounds of
experiments and
measurements
Kramer & Bosman: https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/session/10/contribution/24

19. A multi-cyclic, multi-ordered
model of the research workflow, with loops
preparation
analysis
writingpublication
outreach
assessment discovery
Rounds of grant
writing
and application
Iterations of
search and
reading
Drafting, receiving
comments,rewriting
Submit, peer review,
rejection,
resubmitting
Rounds of
experiments and
measurements
Kramer & Bosman: https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/session/10/contribution/24

20. http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/science-in-the-youtube-age-527822 20

21. http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/science-in-the-youtube-age-527822 21

22. Slide - Catriona MacCallum, PLOS: https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/session/0/contribution/0
Image - Andy Lamb: https://www.flickr.com/photos/speedoflife/8273922515 22
…it’s a Netw rk

23. THE STATE OF THE NETWORK
23Pete: https://www.flickr.com/photos/comedynose/9519425490 CC BY

24. Julie Jordan Scott: https://www.flickr.com/photos/juliejordanscott/4376370282 CC BY 24

25. Gordon Rbertson: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gordon_robertson/5620659988 CC BY 25

26. The Social Network (extract) - Fair Dealing Claimed 26

27. Dave McClear: https://www.flickr.com/photos/7236774@N05/5176203408/ CC BY 27

28. flickr user darkbuffet: https://www.flickr.com/photos/16380910@N04/2613453311/ CC BY 28

29. Sharon Mollerus: https://www.flickr.com/photos/clairity/154640125 CC BY 29

30. Karl Baron: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/4624237772 CC BY 30

31. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Wiring_colours.jpg cc0 31

32. THE ROLE OF THE LIBRARY
32Samantha Marx: https://www.flickr.com/photos/spam/5086168739 CC BY

33. A multi-cyclic, multi-ordered
model of the research workflow, with loops
preparation
analysis
writingpublication
outreach
assessment discovery
Rounds of grant
writing
and application
Iterations of
search and
reading
Drafting, receiving
comments,rewriting
Submit, peer review,
rejection,
resubmitting
Rounds of
experiments and
measurements
Kramer & Bosman: https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/session/10/contribution/24

34. Kramer & Bosman: https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/session/10/contribution/24 34
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Discovery
Analysis
Writing
Publication
Outreach
Assessment

35. Kramer & Bosman: https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/session/10/contribution/24

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The map is not
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55. Encylopedia Britannica (1777) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassini_apparent.jpg 55

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57. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Wiring_colours.jpg cc0 57

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1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. The library is a growing organism.

60. Andy Lamb: https://www.flickr.com/photos/speedoflife/8273922515 CC BY 60
It is the skills and the
values of the library
that will place it at
the centre of a
thriving network of
scholarly information

61. Scholarly Practice 2015-25
From Life Cycles to Networks and the Role of the Library
Cameron Neylon - @cameronneylon - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0068-716X