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Innovations in Publishing

Initiatives from Elsevier

Miss Rupal Malde, Publisher, Food Science Journals

July 2016

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Some history

The printing press – 1439 Gutenberg and moveable type

The first academic journal - March 6,1665 Philosophical

Transactions of the Royal Society

Dissemination of content – (1997)

Electronic submission systems – Manuscript CentralTM, EES

(2004)

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Nothing happened for many years

Grew and grew – 2,500 journals, 30,000

books, 13,397, 561 articles

More and more journals used electronic submissions systems

Larger files were uploaded

Latex could be used

Scopus – http://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus

reviewers and Editors get access

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Then ……..

Web 2.0 came along and big things began to happen – linking, tagging,

authoring of pages, extensions (web as an application platform – Adobe

Reader, ActiveX) etc….

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http://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/content-innovation

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Audio slides

http://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/content-innovation/audioslides

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Interactive phylogenetic treeshttp://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/content-innovation/interactive-

phylogenetic-trees

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New Journal Types

Micro-article journal

MethodsX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26OTWmbRHVI

Data in Brief - Data in Brief provides a way for researchers to easily

share and reuse each other's datasets by publishing data articles

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-in-brief/

SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today's

research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all

research domains. SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance

of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact.

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/softwarex/

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New Journal Types cont…..

New Negatives in Plant Science is an open access, peer reviewed, online journal that

will publish hypothesis-driven, scientifically sound studies that describe unexpected,

controversial, dissenting, and/or null (negative) results in basic plant sciences.

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/new-negatives-in-plant-science/

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