springtime for publishers?
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Springtime for Publishers?
Richard AkermanCanadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ)May 28, 2012
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Spring
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A Fad?
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New Rules
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A New Universe
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There Are Many Copies
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Digital Just Means Numbers
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Network
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Machine Readable
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Discovery
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Rapid Growth & Rapid Change
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Nov. 20, 1961 – Rock and Roll is Dying
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Consequences
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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
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What Can You Do?
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Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0
• Each of these has a different “reader”;know your audience(s)
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Be on the web and be OF the web
• Have great content• Know how to structure it behind the scenes
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Social Life
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Social Life (2)
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Social Life (3)
• Just write about what you are doing, and have conversations about it.• Remember it’s about community.
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Linked Data
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Analytics
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Analytics (2)
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Analytics (3)
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Unique Identifiers
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Raw Data
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New Channels
• Audio• Video• Graphics (Visualization)
Platform-specific
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Eppur si muove
• All of the previous items are basically about details of presenting content within the existing system• Yet a deeper revolution is afoot
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Break the System to Understand It
• What appeared to be a single integrated system actually has many individual components. Each one of them is being re-examined in the new digital ecosystem.• registration, certification, awareness, archiving and
rewarding
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Awareness: Open Access
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Open Access (2)
• http://thecostofknowledge.com/ 11,896• We The People petition 18,257• 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”
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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.”
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Certification: Peer Review
• Pre-review• Traditional review• Post-review
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Archiving: Data Curation &Data Repositories
• Opportunity particularly for scholarly societies (and their associated publishing arms) to be the repository of record for data in their discipline, and to set the data standards
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Rewarding: Impact Factor; Alternative Metrics
• Impact Factor becoming less... Impactful• Many alternative metrics, including article-
level metrics• #altmetrics• http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/
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What Can You Do? (2)
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Monitoring: Blogs to Read
• LSE Impact Blog• T. Scott Plutchak• Scholarly Kitchen• Science in the Open• Michael Neilsen
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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”
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Be Small
• Small is good• Agility• Experimentation
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Be Big
• Open Source• Off-the-shelf software (COTS)• “The Cloud”
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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
Questions?Richard Akerman
@scilib
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