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

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

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)

eJournals (all e collections)

CiteSeer, Zotero

Google Scholar

OU Library federated search

TicTOCs (RSS)

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

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

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)

£5300 Writing

£2900 Publisher

£1400 Peer review

(source: JISC 2009)

Subscription Open access 50% author-pays Self archiving ORO

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

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?

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 Twitter: @ciphergoth @mweller @andrew_x @jvvw @Marmara @francesbell @agneskh @KarenK @rjconnelly Photos: Erica Marshall of muddyboots.org (CC) Some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales

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

Twitter: @ciphergoth @mweller @andrew_x @jvvw @Marmara @francesbell @agneskh @KarenK @rjconnelly

Photos: Erica Marshall of muddyboots.org