From TL Infobits, news of a draft report from UC Berkeley called Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An In-depth Study of Faculty Needs and Ways of Meeting Them. (This is almost exactly the topic we asked candidates for a recent position here at the U of C to address!)
Some of the questions that the study seeks to answer include:
— “What will scholars want to do in their research and with their research results, and what new forms of communication do or do not support those desires?”
— “How will scholars want to disseminate and receive input on their work at various lifecycle stages?”
— “How do institutions and other stakeholders support these faculty needs, if at all?”
There’s a link to the PDF report at http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=300 – it’s only 12 pages long – I’m printing it now.