![Page 1: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle
Paul Harwood
Content Complete Limited
A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle
Paul Harwood, Content Complete Ltd
![Page 2: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
A bit of background
• CCL was established in June 2003 by Albert Prior and Paul Harwood (Carolyn Alderson joined in April 2004)
• We represent the buyers of digital content (mainly online journals) in negotiations with publishers and content providers
• We offer an outsourced service for those who…– Lack the knowledge or expertise– Don’t have the time…to do it themselves
![Page 3: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
Our customers
• JISC (UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils) via NESLi2
• The Universities of Ireland (via IReL)• A leading global pharmaceutical company• Cancer Research UK• CGIAR (Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research)• eIFL (electronic Information for Libraries)• Learned Societies Group
![Page 4: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
Let’s cut back the undergrowth and look inside:
•A number of new species appearing which are changing the environment
•Some existing species under threat of extinction
•Some species desperate to retain their dominant position
![Page 5: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
One new species has been causing significant disturbance
• OpeniusAccessimus (OA)
![Page 6: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
Openius Accessimus (OA)
• The pure version emerged several years ago
• ..and has gained a foothold in many continents
• It is mutating!
![Page 7: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
From this…..
Lanl.arXiv.org
![Page 8: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
…to these, which are clearly the result of in-breeding!
![Page 9: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
All of which presents traditional publishers with an increasing
dilemma…..How many different ways are
there to get the word ‘Open’ into a a brand name!
![Page 10: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
How have existing species reacted to the arrival of a newcomer?
![Page 11: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
The present King of the Jungle
• Still capable of devouring most of its competitors
• Cell Press gesture to OA and towards authors’ self archiving
• Stressing the vfm of ScienceDirect
• Investment in Scopus and Scirus
![Page 12: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
Funding Bodies and Research Councils
• Starting to bare their teeth in the OA debate
• NIH policy on depositing papers in PubMedCentral
• Wellcome Trust letter to VC’s and OA statements
• A European PMC?• Forthcoming Research
Councils announcement on OA
![Page 13: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
Learned Societies
• Dilemma - showing their true colours?….
• As a Society, their mission is about widespread dissemination of research….
• Yet, many of them depend on their publishing arm for survival and OA could threaten that…..
![Page 14: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
Universities
• Increasingly having to be fleet of foot
• The need to compete on the world stage (Oxford)
• To IR or not to IR?• Attitude to the IPR of their
academics• Their expectations and
ideas for future library and information provision
![Page 15: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
End-users
• Some are emerging out of the darkness and trying to engage with the new species
• Just how many are aware of a change in the order of things above ground?
• CIBER research• Depositing papers in IRs• The majority remain
blissfully unaware….unless your name is Steven Harnad
![Page 16: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
The gatekeepers:
• Having to learn new tricks (Managing Institutional Repositories?)
• More liaison and consultation within the organisation (OUP’s NAR)
• Making a case for increased funding
• Fighting off cost-cutting VC’s
• Marketing and promotion
![Page 17: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
OA set-backs?
• Government response to the Science and Technology report
• The economics of OA• NIH climb down• DOAJ research• Recent article by David
Stern from Yale University
• Jan Velterop leaves BioMedCentral
• Rick Johnson leaves SPARC
![Page 18: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
Yet still considerable belief
• National and Institutional Declarations
(Berlin 3 Conference and here in Scotland)
• Forthcoming announcement from RC-UK
• Publishers announcing more liberal policies in the light of the NIH developments
![Page 19: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
Despite all this, life in the jungle goes on….
• The hunters are still out there trying to pick-off easy prey
• The hunted continue to band together seeking protection in numbers
• OA and consortia have contributed to a more level playing field
• Everyone is negotiating with each other!
![Page 20: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
“Now, are you going to sign this contract today or not?”
![Page 21: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
And life has got better in some ways…..
• Reliable, standardised usage statistics helping to influence negotiations and inform collection development policies (Pharmaceutical Companies)
• Considerable growth in the amount of free content
• Large scale retro-digitisation and availability of backfiles
• Other technological developments (CrossRef and CrossRef Search, GoogleScholar, Google Print)
![Page 22: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
…yet more uncertain in others..
• Subscription agents
• Academic and institutional libraries (recent Bangor experience, Learned Societies)
• Smaller publishers
![Page 23: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
..and with yet many unanswered questions
• OA to co-exist with the traditional subscription model? To replace? To wither and die?
• What will tip the balance if it sticks around: the financial argument or the moral one?
• The point at which STM publishing is almost wholly online-only?
• Consensus on whether the Big Deal a good deal?
• Whether Google will retain an interest in scholarly communication?
![Page 24: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
…even about the very nature of scholarly publishing itself
• Continuously updated articles• Continuous Peer Review• The demise of the journal as an entity and brand• The growing importance of services like RSS • Greater exploitation of online medium (images,
moving models etc)• Will Institutional Repositories take-off and
possible impact on scholarly publishing
![Page 25: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
• Each of these issues could easily be the subject matter for a one-day conference in their own right!
• So I’ll stop there and say…..
![Page 26: AHIS, 28 April 2005 A walk through the scholarly publishing jungle Paul Harwood Content Complete Limited A trek through the scholarly publishing jungle](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070403/56649f2e5503460f94c47efd/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
AHIS, 28 April 2005
Thank you for your attention
www.contentcomplete.com