Scholarly Publishing 2.0

Scholarly Publishing 2.0 Doug Clow [email_address] http://dougclow.wordpress.com 10 February 2009

What is scholarly publishing?

What scholars publish!
A distinctive sort of conversation by researchers
Quality
Peer review

Twitter, IM
Blogs, podcasts (iTunesU), SlideShare, YouTube
Conference presentations/papers
Journal articles
Books

information explosion

eJournals (all e collections)
CiteSeer, Zotero
Google Scholar
OU Library federated search
TicTOCs (RSS)
There is no such thing as information overload, only filter failure (Clay Shirky)

What really counts?

Metrics – REF
Citation counts, impact factors
h-index (N papers with N citations)
Gaming the system
Worse outside academia – Technorati (!)
Quality, impact – Peer review

follow the money

Marginal cost of publishing is zero
- Moore’s Law: costs halve every 18 months
E-journal price inflation >10% every year
Publishing costs alone now £575m/y

Per-article costs
£5300 Writing
£2900 Publisher
£1400 Peer review
(source: JISC 2009)

Subscription
Open access
50% author-pays
Self archiving
ORO

peer review 2.0

JIME
Radical open publishing – with quality
Author blogs submission draft
Editors first filter
Referees blog reviews
Author blogs revised draft
Editors review
Formal publication

So what?

Quantitative change (more, faster, easier)
No fundamental change
Open access important, but small beer (libraries traditionally open, seamless sign-on)
Peer review remains key
New forms?

Houghton et al, “Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits”, JISC, 2009
Clay Shirky http://www.cjr.org/overload/interview_with_clay_shirky_par.php?page=all
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