Deborah Shorley was until 2012 Director of Library Services at Imperial College, London. An active member of her profession, Deborah frequently contributes to national and international conferences and in 1998 was awarded the Library Association's Charter Centenary Medal. She has been head of UKRR (UK Research Reserve) since 2007 and was until Chair of MIMAS, a member of JISC Collections Board, on the Board of LIBER (Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche - Association of European Research Libraries) and a member of the Conseil Scientifique of ABES (Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Superieur). She was elected to the Research Libraries UK Board in 2008. She currently acts as Scholarly Communications Adviser to Imperial. Michael Jubb is Director of the Research Information Network (RIN). He has a long-standing background as an academic, archivist and senior research manager and has been Deputy Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has been responsible for over 30 reports on key aspects of the changing scholarly communications landscape.

• Introduction: Scholarly communications – disruptions in a complex ecology – Michael JubbPART 1: CHANGING RESEARCHER BEHAVIOUR1. Changing ways of sharing research in chemistry - Henry S. Rzepa2. Supporting qualitative research in the humanities and social sciences: using the Mass Observation Archive - Fiona Courage and Jane Harvell3. Researchers and scholarly communications: an evolving interdependency - David C. Prosser4. Creative communication in a publish or perish’ culture: can postdocs lead the way? - Katie Anders and Liz Elvidge5. Cybertaxonomy - Vincent S. Smith6. Coping with the data deluge - John Wood7. Social media and scholarly communications: the more they change, the more they stay the same? - Ellen Collins8. The changing role of the publisher in the scholarly communications process - Richard BennettPART 2: OTHER PLAYERS: ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES9. The changing role of the journal editor - Mike McGrath10. The view of the research funder - Robert Kiley11. Changing institutional research strategies - Ian M. Carter12. The role of the research library - Mark L. Brown13. The library users’ view - Roger C. Schonfeld

"This collection expertly outlines the key areas of flux and uncertainty in scholarly communication."