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What Libraries Can Do Active Roles in Scientific Publishing

”Economists, Journals and Libraries”Stockholm School of Economics

August 19, 2003

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Impediments to distribution of knowledge

Dramatic price increases for scientific journals

Lack of correlation price - quality

Market dominated by a few very large

companies

Publishers want to control user behaviour

New and complicated conditions for ownership,

and licensing of e-content

New legal and technical barriers to access

Scientific information – a common good or a

commodity priced per Least Profitable Unit ?

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Library Strategies – old & new

• Journal cancellations & reduced monograph acquisitions – BUT…

• Site & consortial licensing – BUT…• ILL/Doc. delivery vs subscription – BUT…• Promoting competion & lower pricing

(SPARC)

• Promoting Open Acess & university based archives

• Promoting new IPR-agreements• Creating coordination and awareness

among– libraries, academics, administrators, policy

makers, funding authorities, etc.

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Building consortia - does not always help…

• Package deal problems – ”Bound to Bundles”

• National agreements based on certain important principles, e.g. archival access

• United we stand ?– For Science a 17-library consortium license

2002 based on these principles– Renewal negotiations for 2003

– What happened?• The Principle of Least Effort• The Tragedy of the Commons

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Other strategies. 1.

• Actively promote OA and reasonably priced alternatives!

• Avoid the ”Publisher Trap” !• Make open access material and niche

journals visible in a general portal• ELIN@Lund (Electronic Library Information

Navigator)– Contents:

• The global players/publishers• Open Archives, and Open Access Journals• +11.000.000 records in one user interface with

value added services (TOC-alerts, SDI´s etc.)

• Archiving - access to content after termination of license

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Maximising journal usage - ELIN@

ALPSP Alert July 2003. Sally Morris.• ”There's been some debate about linking to

Open Access journals from a library's OPAC. It seems that not all do this, because it's too much work

• In Lund (where the directory of Open Access journals is being compiled) they found this a real problem, so they created ELIN@ (Electronic Library Navigator) to solve it

• Many major publishers, including ALPSP members Wiley, Blackwell, Emerald, Institute of Physics, Elsevier and IEE have provided their journal article metadata for inclusion in ELIN@

• I would strongly encourage other members to do likewise. It can only increase the visibility of your journal”

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Other strategies.2.• University based electronic publishing

– LU:research – a single entry point to research produced by researchers with affiliation Lund •Primary publishing•Self Archiving/Archiving•Dissemination (OAI- compliant) to other

services•Spin-offs:

– Virtual journals– CV`s for research funding applications– Publication database (validation)– Research evaluation (bibliometrics)– Result financing

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http://lu-research.lub.lu.se/

Institutional archive

LU res

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Lund Virtual Medical Journallvmj.medfak.lu.se

LU:research

LVMJ

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Other strategies.3. Dissemination/visibility of Open Access

journals more usage = more citations = increased

impact = more usage etc.

• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals– Phase 1 (completed)

• Peer reviewed• All subjects• All languages

– Phase 2 (ongoing)• Article level search/retrieve• Metadata – creation• Network of editors

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www.doaj.org http://www.doag.org/

DOAJ is hosted by:

                             

      

DOAJ is supported by:

                          

Open Society Institute

                             

SPARC

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Other Strategies.4.

• IPR-agreements – Transfer of copyright=market power– Working group with representatives from the Law Faculty,

the University legal department and the Head Office for libraries. Proposed Model licenses for the university

• Creating coordination and awareness:– Swedish Resource Centre for Scientific

Communication – ScieCom.org (2002)– 1st/2nd Nordic Conference on Scholarly

Communication (2002 & 2004)

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IPR – Model licenses proposals Lund

§ 2 Author´s right to use the Article

Copyright remains with the Author. This will be acknowledged by the Publisher in the copyright line.

The Author retains the right to use the Article:

- for research, educational or other purposes of the Author´s university/institution

- mounted on a server within the Lund University´s domains (posted to free public servers of preprints and/or articles in the Author´s subject area)

- in whole or in part, as the basis for further publications or spoken presentations

- for publication in the Author´s future doctoral thesis / dissertation provided the Author acknowledge the original Article in standard bibliographic citation form.

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ScieCom.orgSwedish Resource Centre for Scientific

Communication• Inform scholars,administrators, funding

authorities, and libraries about the scholarly communication crisis

• Create a common strategic plan for Swedish HE-libraries to work efficiently with alternative publishing models

• Re-establish control of scholarly communication

• Use bibliometrics, open citation and other methods to analyse and show the ”impact” of alternative publishing

• Intellectual Property Rights - Model licenses • Arrange seminars and courses

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www.sciecom.org

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Proposed development• Raise the issue on Nordic and national level• Transform ScieCom.org into a Nordic

Knowledge Centre for Scholarly Publishing• Continuing discussions:

– Application to NORDINFO & national research funding agencies

– NOP:HS application as a follow up of a recent report on the future of Nordic research publications and the use of Nordic languages. Nordic Council of Ministers

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