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Item Disruptive Innovation and the Academic Library(2006-03-10T18:27:30Z) Lewis, David W.In this presentation I will review the theories of business strategy developed by Clayton Christensen and his colleagues in their three books — the "Innovator’s Dilemma", "Innovator’s Solution", and "Seeing What’s Next". I will apply this work to academic libraries and scholarly communication and will show that academic libraries are likely to be disrupted by new technologies and their application by competing organizations. I will then show that libraries also have the potential to drive, and benefit from, disruptive change especially in the scholarly communication value chain. The result should provide guidance to academic librarians in establishing strategies, organizational structures, and values that will position them in the scholarly information and learning value chains in ways that will assure their relevance. The result should provide attendees with a basic understanding of the most important of Christensen’s theories and how they can provide insights into the current state of academic libraries and help to chart the future. This work will build on my article, (Lewis, David W. “The Innovator’s Dilemma: Disruptive Change and Academic Libraries.” Library Administration and Management 18(2):68-74 April 2004. Available at: http://idea.iupui.edu/dspace/handle/1805/173), but will advance and develop it in significant ways.Item How to Think about the Pace of Substitution of Open Access Academic Journals for Traditional Subscription Journals(2010-01-04T15:47:13Z) Lewis, David W.As librarians, academic authors and editors, publishers, and others interested in scholarly communication consider the future, one of the pressing questions is: How fast will open access journals replace traditional subscription journals? It is clear that there are more open access journals now than a few years ago and that open access journals have become an important vehicle for some scholarly communication, but how long will we have to wait for this vehicle to become dominant? This paper will consider this question and use a simple model to explore it. The conclusion is that between 2018 and 2019 open access journals are likely to comprise 50% of all academic journals and should be approaching 90% of all academic journals by 2022. While the data used in the study has some limitations and the methods are somewhat crude, I believe the conclusions are generally sound. I would invite others to refine the data and the methodology.Item Innovation and Growth: Applying Clayton M. Christensen’s Theories to Academic Libraries(American Library Association, 2019) Lewis, David W.Academic libraries are facing many challenges as documents become digital objects on the network and services that were once their sole province are now provided by others at network-scale. Academic libraries will need to identify and develop new services if they are to remain vital. Using two theories from Clayton M. Christensen’s work, the first on different kinds of innovation and their impact on growth, and the second on the “jobs to be done” framework, can guide librarians in this task. Understanding the different types of innovation and the results they bring should shape budget and resource allocation strategies. Understanding the “jobs of be done” framework should provide the means of identifying new products and services that will be valued by students and faculty. The two theories, taken together, can provide academic libraries the means to assure their continuing relevance.Item Proposal for an Alternative Academic Press(2011-01-13) Lewis, David W.The following proposal is for an Alternative Academic Press. The intent of this initiative would be to increase the production of scholarly monographs, particularly in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, in order to advance scholarship in these areas. An additional goal of the initiative will be to develop a model for academic publishing that will be less expensive than traditional academic publishing and produce a product that will be open access in its electronic form and available at cost for a print-on-demand copy. The proposal will be based on the principles of disruptive innovation developed by Clayton Christensen.Item The Scholarly Article is Rebar(2016-05) Lewis, David W.This paper argues that Elsevier's acquisition of the Social Science Research Network is a sign that it is moving up market in response to disruption from open access competitors. This is what business theorist Clayton Christensen would have predicted.