Pikas Psp Presentation February 2010

The Culture of Free: Publishing in an Era of Changing Expectations
Some views from a member of an important customer group
Christina K. Pikas
Librarian
JHU/APL*
February 3, 2010
*All opinions strictly my own and are not those of JHU or APL

Who am I & why am I here?
Practicing librarian at a research lab that is a division of a major research university
Collections budget ~$15M*
Doctoral student in information studies – interested in scholarly communication
I have a pragmaticview/approach
I get very frustrated
*ARL Total Materials Expenditures, 2008

Pain points(things we don’t want to pay for)
Areas requiring special attention(tread carefully)
Things that are worth their money

Pain…
DRM that doesn’t let the users do what they expect to be able to do with a book
DRM that doesn’t let us do what we paid for

One pdf per page
Requiring users to follow links in pdf to navigate to other chapters
Using some port other than 80
Pain…
(do note: these are absolutely non-compliant with modern information security settings found in corporations and government)

Non-functioning interfaces
Those that make it impossible to find even a known item with a full, correct citation (why bother subscribing?)
Pain…

Sites that sell their document delivery even when the library has purchased a license, and the site has already identified the user as one who has access via library license
Pain…

When you spend the money we gave you to pay for expensive lobbyists to work against things we hold dear
Pain…

Advertising.
Ok: scientists and engineers miss the ads for equipment and services they used to find in their print journals
Not ok: irrelevant pseudoscientific or gross ad network ads
Attention required…

Confusing combinations of purchase/subscribe
Ok: both are available
Not ok: volumes 1-10, one time purchase, volumes 10-11 subscribe, volumes 12-21 either….

File formats
Ok: pdf and html
Iffy: only pdf or only html
Not Ok: pdf that is not OCRd and is locked down so it can’t be OCRd or is of very poor quality

Worth paying for…
Integration with discovery services
Meta searchable
MARC records
Indexed by Google

A decent interface that facilitates
Citation chaining
Exporting references
Finding related content
Incorporation into workflows
Worth paying for…

Final notes
I see you as partners, do you see me as evil? We are in this together.
Please ask us – use your library advisory board!
Don’t reinvent the wheel – look at what your competitors (in and outside of publishing) are doing!

Christina K. Pikas
christina dot pikas at jhuapl.edu
Blogging at:
http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant

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