The document discusses the changing landscape of academic journals from traditional subscription models to more open access formats. It traces the evolution from 17th century society-run journals to the modern commercial journal system dominated by four companies. The emergence of digital technologies and the internet enabled new models like PLOSOne, which popularized open access publishing and supplementary digital content. The future may see more mainstream adoption of open access, but transitions away from traditional subscription and bundling practices face challenges.

1. The Changing Journals
Landscape

2. From Transactions to
PLOSOne...

3. From Transactions...
• The nature of the early journal community
• Blog writers?
• Constraints of the medium

4. The growth of the
commercial journal
• From 17th to 20th century, mostly society
and independent journals
• Post war, the information society provides
opportunities for commercial players
• Consolidation - now 4 companies dominate

5. The ‘journals crisis’
• A captive market
• Price increases
• Increase in journal numbers and ‘bundling’
• Impact factors and control of evaluation of
scholarship

6. The internet - scholarship
goes digital
• Growth of digital
• Linking and interoperability
• Web 2.0 and community building (Nature)
• ‘Freemium’ models
• Adding content adding value

7. Quote Timmo Hannay

8. The emergence of
Open Access
• The Budapest Initiative - quote

9. Growth of OA
• OA journal business models
• Comparative growth figures - subscription
journals and OA (SOAP study)
• Commercial OA journals
• OA and the developing world

10. OA and impact
• Debate on whether OA increases impact

11. Digital Humanities
• Journals and books
• Research funding and affordability
• Linking data

12. PLOSOne - a disruptive
model
• Broad cross-disciplinary
• Splitting of technical and impact peer
review
• Linking of supplementary content
• Article as part of research in progress
• Commercial journals following this trend

13. Where to now?
• OA goes mainstream - but transitions are
difficult
• Protests against bundling
• Altmetrics
• Review of peer review