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Japanese Science Publishing

Mikiko Tanifuji

Institute of Pure and Applied Physics (IPAP)Fiesole Conference, Melbourne, April 29, 2005

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Outline

Society journals in JapanJournals published by IPAPJournals published by Japanese PublishersJournals published by non-Japanese PublishersJournals published on J-StageJournals collection by UniBio Press

Navigator to society journalsGeNii by NII IR by Libraries

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Background 1- Researchers environment

The Science and Technology Basic PlanCouncil for Science and Technology Policy1997- 2005 past 8yrs, 400 $billion2006 -2011 The 3rd plan stated “from basic research to application”,“strengthen dissemination system of information to international community”(http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/kagaku/kihon/point.htm)

Evaluation of research achievement for employment Number of reviewed articles in the high-IF journals

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Researchers need to publish more articles

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Increasing production of articles in Japan

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Need journals as an evaluation (review) system, fair, fast

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Need more journals?

Societies as a community of/for researchers respond to needs

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Encourage members to submit articles to societies’ journals (but?)

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Try to improve journals review system (but?)

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Need more circulation

Can/Do societies respond to users’ need?

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Total : 735thousands U.S.A Germany U.K. Others

Published papers in Science & Technology

Selected Countries' Shares of Published Papers [%]Source : ISI “National Science Indicators, 1981-2002”

http://www.mext.go.jp/english/index.htm

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Background 2 – Publishing communitySociety Publishers

1990 – awareness of internet communication

1995 – trial HTML, free for all

1997 – trial PDF, free for all2000 – awareness of necessity of e-journals

2005 – pricing of e-journals, e-only? Licensing??

Commercial Publishers

1990 – awareness of internet business, free for all?

1995 – web-based search service, database, free HTML 1997 – e-journal licensing model2000 – consortia, archiving, portal

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Has/Can societies respond to speed of growth of publishing community?

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Society Journals in Japan

1624 societies, 2019 titles In English 341 (S&T 155, Med 109, Agr 37), in Japanese 1678

Publishing style Societies publish on their own Societies organize self-publishing institute “IPAP” Societies journals hosted by government sponsored platform

“J-Stage” Societies out-sourcing to professional publishers Societies-collection “UniBio Press”

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IPAP

Institute of Pure and Applied Physics (http://www.ipap.jp) Established 1961 Non-profit organization “the only” independent-publishing organization Societies membership

The Physical Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Applied Physics,Progress of Theoretical Physics, The Optical Society of Japan

Online publishing4 journals, conference proceeding, booksScientific journals published in Japan are

63 titles 8,272 articles published (by NII)IPAP publishes 4 titles, 3,200 articles/yr → 39 ％ in physics and technology

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Physical Society of Japansince 1946, publish 3,100 pg/yr

Optical Society of Japansince 1994, publish 600 pg/yr

Japan Society of Applied Physicssince 1962, publish 10,000 pg/yr

Publication Office, Progress of Theoretical Physicssince 1946, publish 4,000 pg/yr

Monthly Weekly

Online firstFull archive Av. 20 days

Publishing days

Full archiveon Springerweb

Will full archive

Full subscriptionPay-Per-View

Free

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ResponsibilitiesSocieties: editing, author copyrightIPAP: production, p- & e- publishing, sales, promotion

E-publishing platform “IPAP Online Journals”Current: 3 titles, from e-submission to e-first

publishing, full archive, CrossRef linking

Plan: Google Search, RSS….

Site Licensing1. Pricing depending on institutional activities2. Keep print-subscription revenue3. One licensing, one agreement for one institute

Mission of IPAP

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Publishing Revenue

Publication charge (a)$110/article

Subscription (b)Institutions -$1600/year/10,000 pagesIndividualsTrial users -trial users, free 3 monthsPay per view -$16/article

Government support (c)

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Online Journal Usage (yearly trend)IPAP Online J ournals

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free charge

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J-STAGE

Japan Science and Technology Information AGgregator, Electronic

Common platform of electronic journals for academic societies in Japan, operated by JST

Since October 1999 About 270 academic societies About 180 journals and 80 proceedings are currently published More than 115 thousand articles are loaded About 250 thousand PDF are downloaded per month

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J-STAGE top page Journals top page

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Increasing Audience

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Chem Lett web

Chem Commun web

J ACS web

Angewandte web

Chem Lett print

Chem Commun print

J ACS print

Angewandte print

Publication Time (from submission to publishing)

Outcome 2: Rapid Publication

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Societies out-sourcing to professional publishers in Japan E-library by Terapubfreepdf

http://www.terrapub.co.jp/e-library/

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100 / 341 journals commercial / non-commercial publisher Blackwell Publishing Oxford, Blackwell Publishing Asia,

Elsevier Science, Springer Verlag, Karger, VSP Oxford University Press

Roles Society – editing control a quality of journals Publisher – copyrights (in full/shared), production,

p- & e-publishing, distribution, marketing control dissemination by collect journals

& licensing

Societies out-sourcing to professional publishers outside Japan

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UniBio Press

UniBio Press (cf. BioOne) April 2004 - 3 titles ～ 20 titles in 200x

J. Mammalian Ova ResearchMammal StudyZoological Science

Negotiating mutually acceptable pricing with the librarian community through SPARC/Japan

Expecting an increasing of circulation

Zoo. Sci. $175/yr (+12% from 2000 to 2001, +0% since)

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PolicyBioOneSmall societies gathered & support own platform

ResponsibilitiesCollection of journals in BiologyLicensing

SupporterNII supports this project in corporation of

SPARC/Japan

Mission of UniBio Press

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Global Environment for Networked Intellectual InformationWeb portal of scholarly contentsby National Institute of Informatics (NII)

Navigator to society journals

Corporation of government + libraries for academic communities

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IR/ELS → GeNii (※ GeNii : Global Environment for Networked Intellectual Information)

http://ge.nii.ac.jp/

Journalpapers

(full text)

Book and journal information

Article information

Research achievements information

Specialty academic information

1 April 2005 ～partially pay

service

free

free

free

Journal Papers

Indexes andAbstracts

(without text)

Books and

Journaltitles

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Global Environment for Networked Intellectual InformationWeb portal of scholarly contentsby National Institute of Informatics (NII)

Navigator to society journals

Institutional Repository

Web-based database of scholarly contentswhich is institutionally defined byChiba University Library, other univ. and National Institute of Informatics (NII)

Corporation of government + libraries for academic communities

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Summary – what’s happening in Japan?

Society journals are active, but passive try to collect high quality articles from members accelerating digitizing of journal archive try to shift from print-based to a site-based licensing try to maintain cost balance, save and development R&D

Publishing aggregators are not competitive, not enough knowledge, technology, cost performance …etc. J-Stage, IPAP

GeNii as a national-made navigator to scholarly contents IR as a portal service for institutions by libraries

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Summary – so, what is the problem ?

Society journals are positive but pessimistic …if we could collect high quality articles from our society

members, and then our journal should get better circulation, and then the journal brand will get higher

…but, most of our members, especially younger generation focus on brand-journals

…however, we still need to continue, or, we may need to install new journal to appeal and get their attention, so that members will support our society journals,

…we must improve e-journal function, maybe invest more money for R&D, or human resource, to correspond to their needs

..so that our journals will become competitive journals one day.

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Is the geography of journal publishing therefore shifting?

-yes, we are.

E-mail: tanifuji@ipap.jpFor further contact from May 1, 2005:National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)http://www.nims.go.jp