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Scholarly publishing in China –an outsider’s view
Sally MorrisChief Executive
ALPSP
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What is ?
The international association for nonprofitpublishers and those who work with them– 341 member organisations in 37 countries (3 in China)– Publishing nearly 10,000 journals (~40% of world
output)• Advocacy
– often backed by research• Professional development
– training, seminars and other events• Good practice guidelines• Information
– journal, website, newsletter, listservs, reports and other publications
• Collaboration– ALPSP Learned Journals Collection
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China - background• A growing economy
– Over 9% annual growth in GDP (USA = 3-4%)– Projected by Price Waterhouse Cooper to be about 95%
of the size of the US economy at market exchange rates by 2050 (40% larger at purchasing price parity)
• Understanding of linkage between R&D and economic success– Example of Japan
• Growing R&D expenditure– China is expected to increase its share of global
R&D spending from 11.8% in 2004 to 12.8% in 2005 and 13.6% in 2006
– US share is expected to decrease from 32.7% in 2004 to 32% in 2005 and 31.3 % in 2006
• Growing output of research papers– 1% of world total in 1988, 1.7% in 1996, 4.2%
in 2003– US 38.1% - 34% - 30.3%
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Where should Chinese researchers publish?
• Benefits of publishing in Western journals– Authors encouraged to publish in highly cited
international journals
• Chinese authors may need extra help– English language– Conventions of publication
• Where does this help come from?– Courses in China (EASE, Charlesworth)– Links with Western publishers
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What about Chinese scholarly journals?
• Statistics – c. 9000 Scholarly Journals, of which c. 4750
in STM• 26% from universities, 24% from societies and
associations, 29% from research institutes, 21% from government departments, independent publishers and others
– <200 in English– 76 in Journal Citation Reports (mostly
English-language)
• Government policy (being developed)– Financial support for top journals to
help them reach world standard
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Boosting quality of Chinese journals
• Chinese publishers may need extra help– Editorial, production, marketing, copyright,
general business skills
• Where does this help come from?– Western publishers– Western training providers (Oxford Brookes,
ALPSP)– ALPSP/CAS training programme
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Structure of Chinese Scholarly Publishing
Chinese Government
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Chinese Associationof Science and
Technology (CAST)
Ministry of Science and Technology
(MOST)
Ministry of Education
(MOE)
190 Societies~1000 journals
~200 research institutes
~1000 journals
China Science Press>200 journals
700 universities,>1000 colleges (most have at least 1 journal)
Higher Education Press
General Administration of
Print and Publications(GAPP)
China National Publications Import/Export Corporation
(CNPIEC) andother importers
Chinese University Presses Association
(>100 presses)
Independent presses and
others
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Opportunities for Chinese publishers
• Increasing international profile– Impact Factor and other measures
• Increasing international readership/sales– Direct sales – very difficult– Partnership with Western publishers– The role of Open Access?
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Opportunities for Western publishers
• Copyright situation much improved, extra funding to buy legal copies
• Imports– Inclusion in CNPIEC database (80% market share) and
others• Local reprint rights/Translation rights
– Beijing Book Fair– Advice Note on ALPSP website
• Different forms of partnership with Chinese publishers– Co-publication partnerships (e.g. Institute of Physics)– Co-publication of English language editions (e.g.
Springer, Elsevier)• Entire journals• Best articles from a range of journals
– Online and/or print distribution agreements
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Why help Chinese publishers?
• Scholarly communication is advanced if all scholars have access to the widest range of other scholars’ work
• Scholarly communication – and the publishing industry - is advanced if all research publishing is carried out to highest international standards
• What ALPSP is doing:– Programme of training for Chinese publishers (in
UK, in China – backed by research into their specific needs)
– Aim to build up to CAS/ALPSP journal publishing diploma
– Regular CAS/ALPSP conference on scholarly publishing (starting 2007)