Around Our World in 30 MinutesDavid CrottyEditorial Director, Journals PolicyOxford University [email protected]
August 12, 2016
ISMTE 2016 North American Conference
Overload
Publishers are Pessimists
An Era of Consolidation
Selling Content Versus Selling Services
Services Provided by Journals
• Dissemination: spreading the word • Registration: publicly claiming credit for a
discovery• Validation: peer review, is this research
valid?• Filtration: sorting out the overwhelming
torrent of research• Designation: is this research important?
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/01/04/why-hasnt-scientific-publishing-been-disrupted-already/
Preprints: A Historical Overview
Lariviere, V., Sugimoto, C.R., Macaluso, B., Milojevic, S., Cronin, B. and Thelwall, M. (2013) arXiv e-prints and the journal of record: An analysis of roles and relationships arXiv:1306.3261
• Earliest preprint citation = 1922, Physical Reviews• Mid-1960s NIH Information Exchange Groups• NBER 1973• arXiv launched 1991• AMS mathematical repository mid-1990s• SSRN founded 1994• RepEc founded 1997• Chemistry Preprint Server 2000-2004• Nature Precedings 2007-2012• PeerJ Preprints 2013• bioRxiv 2013
Services Provided by Journals
• Dissemination: spreading the word • Registration: publicly claiming credit for a
discovery• Validation: peer review, is this research
valid?• Filtration: sorting out the overwhelming
torrent of research• Designation: is this research important?
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/01/04/why-hasnt-scientific-publishing-been-disrupted-already/
Open Access
Free and unrestricted online access to ANDfree and unrestricted re-use of material, usually in scholarly journals
Open AccessA low priority for most researchers
Nature Author Insights Survey 2015 http://figshare.com/articles/Author_Insights_2015_survey/1425362
Open AccessA low priority for most researchers
Nature Author Insights Survey 2015 http://figshare.com/articles/Author_Insights_2015_survey/1425362
Peak Subscription
Three Growth Strategies:•Increase Market Share
– Lateral movement of journals, consolidation of titles with the biggest publishers, cascading peer review
•Develop New Revenue Streams– Gold OA charges come from sources other than the
institutional library budget•New Product Development
– Workflow, data, analytics, clinical decision support tools, document sharing tools, board review, certification
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/10/01/peak-subscription/
Global approach to open access
Asia Pacific•China: CAS & NSF; gold or green open access, deposit within 12 months•ARC & NHMRC in Australia have 12 month self-archive mandate, as does A*Star in Singapore•Other funders considering policy
Africa•Developing repositories•Publishers enabling philanthropic access•New open access journals to supportlocal research needs•Some institutions have open access mandates, but no policies from any funders or Governments
Europe•UK funder mandates focused on gold (Research Councils UK & Wellcome Trust)•VSNU driving expansion in gold open access•Green open access mandates in Italy & Spain •All EU members formulating open access policies at either national, funder or institutional level.
North America and Canada•US Federal Agencies formulating policies following OSTP memo e.g.
• NIH: gold or green; deposit to PMC within 12 months• DOE: green (or gold); public access within 12 months via
PAGES and CHORUS• NSF: gold or green; public access within 12 months• CHORUS working with DOD, DOE, NSF, etc.
•Canada active in OA discussions and looking at gold and green• Tri-Agency policy: gold or 12 month deposit mandate• Gates Foundation: gold open access
Latin America•Focus on green open access•Argentina: MINCYT introduced 6 month deposit mandate•Brazil: Government formulating green open access policy•Mexico: OA legislation passed to support repository development
Slide courtesy of Alicia Wise, Elsevier, with slight adaptations.
Compliance
Automation Through PIDs
http://www.chorusaccess.org
Data
Reproducibility
https://xkcd.com/242/
Misconduct
Dealing With A Digital World
Article Sharing
http://www.howcanishareit.com/
AOVVs.AMVs.
VOR
Shades of Grey
The Dark Side
Modern Authentication Systems
Better User Experience
Interesting Times• Consolidation• Shifting Toward Services• Preprints• Open Access• Compliance• Persistent Identifiers• Data• Reproducibility• Misconduct• Article Sharing• Scholarly Collaboration Networks• Piracy• Better Authentication and User Experience
Thank You!David CrottyEditorial Director, Journals PolicyOxford University [email protected] 12, 2016