Springtime for publishers - 20120711

Spring 2

Awareness: Open Accesshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/communityfriend/2342578485/ 3

Open Access (2)• http://thecostofknowledge.com/ 12,319• We The People petition 28,066• US Federal Research Public Access Act• (Harvard) Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing • “Consider submitting articles to open-access journals, or to ones that have reasonable, sustainable subscription costs; move prestige to open access” 4

Open Access (3)• “I realise this move to open access presents a challenge and opportunity for your industry, as you have historically received funding by charging for access to a publication. Nevertheless that funding model is surely going to have to change…. To try to preserve the old model is the wrong battle to fight.” 5

Certification: Peer Review• Pre-review• Traditional review• Post-review 6

Archiving: Data Curation & Data Repositories• Linking of datasets is key; more and more repositories providing DOIs for data 7

Rewarding: Impact Factor; Alternative Metrics• Impact Factor becoming less... Impactful• Many alternative metrics, including article- level metrics • #altmetrics • http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/ 8

Technology 9

What Can You Do? (1) 10http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramkarthik/4022566308/

Monitoring: Blogs to Read• LSE Impact Blog• T. Scott Plutchak• Scholarly Kitchen• Science in the Open• Michael Nielsen 11

Monitoring: Journals to Watch• PLoS • PLoS ONE• eLife • “We commit to serving authors and advancing careers in science. At eLife, Publishing is just the beginning.”• PeerJ • “The $99 Sustainable Model” 12

Be Small• Small is good• Agility• Experimentation 13

Be Big• Open Source• Off-the-shelf software (COTS)• “The Cloud” 14

A Fad? 15http://www.flickr.com/photos/toastkid/5172547797/

New Rules 16http://www.flickr.com/photos/cynthia_/7008786615/

A New Universe 17http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The.Matrix.glmatrix.2.png

There Are Many Copies 18 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/18112585/

Digital Just Means Numbers 19

Network 20http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjcockell/3251147920/

Machine Readable 21http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisovy/4678126767/

Discovery 22

Rapid Growth & Rapid Change 23http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Facebook_popularity.PNG

Consequences 24http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vesta_from_Dawn,_July_17.jpg

Consequences (2)• End of record stores (but not music)• End of video stores• End of book stores• End of film developers• End of physical money• Re-examination of any content communications system • Enormous challenges for academic libraries • Enormous challenges for scholarly communication • Enormous challenges for universities 25

What Can You Do? (2) 26http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramkarthik/4022566308/

Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0• Each of these has a different “reader”; know your audience(s) 27

Be on the web and be OF the web• http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html• Great content up front• Properly structured behind the scenes 29

Social Life 30

Social Life (2)• Just write about what you are doing, and have conversations about it.• Remember it’s about community. 31

Linked Data 32

Analytics 33

Analytics (2) 34

Unique Identifiers 35http://www.flickr.com/photos/87106931@N00/4631356861/

Raw Data 36

New Channels• Audio• Video• Graphics (Visualization) 38

Summary• Fundamental change due to properties of the digital environment – impacting all of our culture• Need to understand audience: both machines and humans• Many basic steps in order to be a healthy part of the digital ecosystem• Disruption of each aspect of scholarly communication• Monitor the ongoing experiments• Opportunities for adaptive organisations 39

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Springtime for publishers - 20120711

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