Archives des mots-clés : Scholarly Publishing

Digital distribution of academic journals and its impact…

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Digital distribution of academic journals and its impact on scholarly communication: Looking back
after 20 years :

“It has been approximately 20 years since distributing scholarly journals digitally became feasible. This article discusses the broad implications of the transition to digital distributed scholarship from a historical perspective and focuses on the development of open access (OA) and the various models for funding OA in the context of the roles scholarly journals play in scientific communities.”

URL : http://www.openaccesspublishing.org/apc4/final.pdf

One publisher’s journey through the public access debate…

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One publisher’s journey through the public access debate :

“This paper presents the content of my closing address given at the Academic Publishing in Europe 2012 Conference. I share my perspective of the public access debate, as CEO of American Institute of Physics, a medium-size scientific publisher and my observations on our industry’s most important customers – the libraries. The origin of the often contentious public access debate can be traced back to a worthy goal shared by all stakeholders: the expansion of access to and broad use of scholarly publications. Starting with principles and recommendations set forth in the 2010 Scholarly Publishing Roundtable Report, I outline a productive and pragmatic path forward and identify appropriate and cost-effective options for expanding access. Furthermore, I review the major elements of public access policy development in the US since 2005, leading up to January 2012, a year after President Obama signed into public law the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010. This essay has been expanded to include additional information, covering the issue through September 2012 (submission date of this article), and addresses related government initiatives that appeared in the UK and the European Union.”

URL : http://iospress.metapress.com/content/9318j0n53511043p/fulltext.pdf

L’implication des bibliothèques universitaires francophones dans l’évaluation de…

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L’implication des bibliothèques universitaires francophones dans l’évaluation de la recherche au travers du traitement des publications scientifiques: Belgique – France – Suisse – Canada :

“Depuis de nombreuses années la révolution numérique touche directement les professionnels de l’information et de la documentation. Plus récemment de nouvelles pressions pèsent sur les bibliothèques. Les contingences économiques, institutionnelles et scientifiques poussent le secteur à se remettre en question jusque dans ses fondements. A travers une enquête adressée au personnel des bibliothèques universitaires francophones de Belgique, France, Suisse et Canada, ce mémoire tente d’évaluer dans quelle mesure le personnel des BU perçoit les mutations en cours dans son environnement professionnel en général, et en particulier concernant l’évaluation de la recherche et le traitement des publications scientifiques. Les résultats font apparaître des disparités nationales et déterminent des observations globales. Généralement le personnel est favorable aux changements en matière de traitement des publications scientifiques et à l’évaluation de la recherche. Mais globalement, il n’est ni impliqué, ni préparé à une plus grande intégration de ses activités dans le contexte de la recherche au sein de son institution.”

URL : http://memsic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/mem_00741049

Anatomy of open access publishing a study of…

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Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure :

“Background : Open access (OA) is a revolutionary way of providing access to the scholarly journal literature made possible by the Internet. The primary aim of this study was to measure the volume of scientific articles published in full immediate OA journals from 2000 to 2011, while observing longitudinal internal shifts in the structure of OA publishing concerning revenue models, publisher types and relative distribution among scientific disciplines. The secondary aim was to measure the share of OA articles of all journal articles, including articles made OA by publishers with a delay and individual author-paid OA articles in subscription journals (hybrid OA), as these subsets of OA publishing have mostly been ignored in previous studies.

Methods : Stratified random sampling of journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (n = 787) was performed. The annual publication volumes spanning 2000 to 2011 were retrieved from major publication indexes and through manual data collection.

Results : An estimated 340,000 articles were published by 6,713 full immediate OA journals during 2011. OA journals requiring article-processing charges have become increasingly common, publishing 166,700 articles in 2011 (49% of all OA articles). This growth is related to the growth of commercial publishers, who, despite only a marginal presence a decade ago, have grown to become key actors on the OA scene, responsible for 120,000 of the articles published in 2011. Publication volume has grown within all major scientific disciplines, however, biomedicine has seen a particularly rapid 16-fold growth between 2000 (7,400 articles) and 2011 (120,900 articles). Over the past decade, OA journal publishing has steadily increased its relative share of all scholarly journal articles by about 1% annually. Approximately 17% of the 1.66 million articles published during 2011 and indexed in the most comprehensive article-level index of scholarly articles (Scopus) are available OA through journal publishers, most articles immediately (12%) but some within 12 months of publication (5%).

Conclusions : OA journal publishing is disrupting the dominant subscription-based model of scientific publishing, having rapidly grown in relative annual share of published journal articles during the last decade.”

URL : http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/10/124

Confronting the Crisis in Scientific Publishing: Latency, Licensing and Access

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The serials crisis in scientific publishing can be traced to the long duration of copyright protection and the assignment of copyright by researchers to publishers. Over-protection of scientific literature has enabled commercial publishers to increase subscription rates to a point at which access to scientific information has been curtailed with negative social welfare consequences. The uniformity costs imposed by such over-protection can be addressed by tailoring intellectual property rights, either through legal change or private ordering.

Current open access channels of distribution offer alternative approaches to scientific publishing, but neither the Green OA self-archiving nor the Gold OA author-pays models has yet achieved widespread acceptance. Moreover, recent proposals to abolish copyright protection for academic works, while theoretically attractive, may be difficult to implement in view of current legislative and judicial dispositions.

Likewise, funder open access mandates such as the NIH OA Policy, which are already responsible for the public release of millions of scientific articles, are susceptible to various risks and political uncertainty.

In this article, I propose an alternative private ordering solution based on latency values observed in open access stakeholder negotiation settings. Under this proposal, research institutions would collectively develop and adopt publication agreements that do not transfer copyright ownership to publishers, but instead grant publishers a one-year exclusive period in which to publish a work.

This limited period of exclusivity should enable the publisher to recoup its costs and a reasonable profit through subscription revenues, while restoring control of the article copyright to the author at the end of the exclusivity period. This balanced approach addresses the needs of both publishers and the scientific community, and would, I believe, avoid many of the challenges faced by existing open access models.

URL : http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/research/33/

Publication numérique dans l’édition scientifique Le cas des…

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Publication numérique dans l’édition scientifique. Le cas des Presses universitaires du Septentrion :

“Le marché du livre numérique a été lancé fin 2007 aux États‐Unis. Peu à peu, la production puis la vente de tels fichiers se sont également développées en France où, en 2012, de nombreux éditeurs privés proposent un important catalogue de livres numériques. L’édition scientifique est également en train d’intégrer cette publication numérique déjà bien avancée dans le domaine des revues. Ce sont désormais les presses universitaires qui se mettent à l’édition électronique des ouvrages. En 2012, les Presses universitaires du Septentrion ont accueilli une nouvelle chaîne d’édition intégrant la production de livres numériques. Les techniques de production ainsi que l’environnement de cet éditeur sont donc amenés à changer, notamment au niveau des relations avec ses différents acteurs traditionnels : les auteurs, distributeurs, diffuseurs mais également les lecteurs. Grâce à un partenariat entre institutions, le livre numérique dans l’édition scientifique française est basé sur la normalisation et l’interopérabilité.”

“The digital book market was launched in late 2007 in the United States. Gradually, production and selling of such files also developed in France where, in 2012, many private publishers offer an extensive catalog of digital books. Scientific publishing is also in the process of integrating this digital publication already well advanced in the field of journals. University presses are nowadays starting to publish electronic books. In 2012, the Septentrion University Press has welcomed a new publishing chain integrating digital books production. This editor’s production techniques and environment are likely to change, especially in terms of relations with its traditional actors: authors, distributors, broadcasters but also the readers. Through a partnership between institutions, the digital book in French scientific publishing is based on standardization and interoperability.”

URL : http://memsic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/mem_00736979

Refurbishing the Camelot of Scholarship How to Improve…

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Refurbishing the Camelot of Scholarship: How to Improve the Digital Contribution of the PDF Research Article :

“The Portable Document Format (PDF) has become the standard and preferred form for the digital edition of scholarly journal articles. Originally created as a solution to the need to “view and print anywhere,” this technology has steadily evolved since the 1990s. However, its current use among scholarly publishers has been largely restricted to making research articles print-ready, and this greatly limits the potential capacity of the PDF research article to form a greater part of a digital knowledge ecology. While this article considers historical issues of design and format in scholarly publishing, it also takes a very practical approach, providing demonstrations and examples to assist publishers and scholars in finding greater scholarly value in the way the PDF is used for journal articles. This involves but is not limited to graphic design and bibliographic linking, the deployment of metadata and research data, and the ability to combine elements of improved machine and human readability.”

URL : http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0015.102