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ACS Digital Workflow

Society Of Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting

3 June, 2010

Jim KingDirector, Software Engineering

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Our Strategic Goal

To migrate the ACS Journals publishing environment from a manual-intensive, print-centric production environment to an XML-based, fully digital environment, eliminating all human interaction beyond intellectually driven, value added operations.

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Our Objectives

Reduce the time to publication for existing product

Reduce the time to market for new products

Reduce production and operational cost

Automate all non “Knowledge-Based”, manual components of the publishing workflow.

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Our Objectives

Allow those involved in the publishing workflow to focus on intellectual effort instead of managing the flow of the content

Create a “Media Neutral” repository of content that can be easily repurposed as needed to better serve the scientific community

Enable derivative products using the primary publishing content

Enhance content to increase discoverability

Enhance value of content using semantic tagging

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Timeline to a Digital Environment 1996

Launched On-Line Journal Delivery Platform 1999

Launched First On-line Manuscript Submission System 2002

Launched ACS Paragon On-line Manuscript Submission System Launched On-line Journal Archive

2003 Launched On-Line Document Tracking System.

2006 Launched ACS Paragon Plus for On-line Manuscript Submission

and Peer Review Began Conversion of Journals to Paragon Plus (including

published and in-process manuscripts)

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2007 Launched XML Editor for Technical Editing Began Conversion of Journals XML

2008 Completed Conversion of Journals to Paragon Plus Completed Conversion of Journals to XML Environment Launched New On-Line Journal Delivery Platform

2009 Launched eBook on the On-line Delivery Platform using the XML

Digital Workflow Process. 2010

Launched ACS Mobile Application for iPhone and iPad

Timeline to a Digital Environment

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ACS Paragon PlusPeer Review

System

(ScholarOne)

On-Line Document Tracking System

(Documentum)

XML Conversion

(MacmillanCadmus)

Technical Editing

(Arbortext Editor)

Composition

(MacmillianCadmus)

Derivative Products

On-Line Delivery of

Content

(ATYPON)

Derivative Products

Institutional Fulfillment

(MSG)

Individual Fulfillment

(Avectra)

Example:ACS Mobile Applications

ACS DIGITAL WORKFLOW OVERVIEW

Accepted Manuscripts

Article Packages

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Results

We have reduced time to publication for all products on average by over 60%

We can now allow customer needs and business considerations to determine time to market and launch dates (technology and operational considerations and timelines are a minor consideration)

We have substantially reduced operational costs and expect further reductions as we continue to automate all non Knowledge based components of the workflow

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Results

We have been able to impose and validate business rules early in the process thereby avoiding costly cleanup of content at the end of the workflow

Technical Editing staff can now focus on content enrichment and semantics; not nuances of appearance

We have been able to easily implement tools for enhanced discoverability

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Results

We have moved from sequential to parallel processing of content for various delivery methods (e.g., print, web, mobile, etc.)

We can now easily package the same content for delivery on multiple platforms

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Recommendations

Remember this is a business process initiative not a technology initiative. The technology is the easy part. Changing the culture and getting buy-in from the operational staff is the hard part.

View this as a continual improvement process not a project with single start and end dates. You can make substantial improvements in increments. If you wait until you have it all figured out you will never get it done.

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ACS Mobile

An example of a product made easier by our move to XML

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ACS Mobile THE ROAD TO LAUNCH

Project initiated: October 2009Submit to Apple: Feb 9, 2010Apple Approval: Feb 11, 2010Launch Date: March 15, 2010

Key Value Proposition:ACS Mobile offers end-users the ability to keep current with the latest research articles and news stories from ACS journals and C&EN as they are pushed live to the Web

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ACS Mobile iPhone Simulator

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