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MOAC DTC Wednesday lunchtime talk
MOAC Seminar Room, top floor, Senate House
Wednesday 28th Nov – ALL WELCOME!12.50pm - Lunch
1.10-1.45pm - Seminar
Speaker: Jenny Delasalle University of Warwick
“What do publishers do for you?”
What do you want from a publisher?1. Edit and improve your work
2. Prestige & publicity
3. Your rights: protection against plagiarism
4. Perpetual record of your work
5. Money!
6. Audience: – broad distribution / target community.– recognition amongst scholars.
And FAST!
An aside: Money, money, money…
• Text book!
• A Semi-popular book? (high profile in the press: Dr Alice Roberts / Ben Miller)
• At least not cost you (personally) loads to publish!– Journal Article Processing Charges– Open Access funds
Four Journal functions
1. Dissemination – publishing and marketing
2. Quality Control – editorial & peer review processes. (Publisher Awards & funding of research.)
3. Canonical Archive – storage, DOIs
4. Recognition of authors
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/fytton (1997)
Journal editors
• Editorial boards: active or ceremonial!
• Associate or Assistant editors
• Editors: final decision. Comments too?
• 200 manuscripts a year?
• Select peer reviewers & select articles
• Responsibilities– Developing the discipline– Defending against bias– Appropriate and inappropriate publication– Efficient reviewing process
Ethical concerns
• the work of others is properly acknowledged, credited and referenced.
• data should be accurate and preserved and accessible - as appropriate.
• the article should be complete and publication well timed (eg results not being shared prematurely).
• co-authorship is properly attributed.• confidentiality is respected and maintained.
Editorial office work• Journal Managers & Editorial Assistants
• Management reports!
• Journal home page & Author guidelines
• Copyediting & proof-reading– Spelling– Grammar– Style– xml document
• Digital media? Corrections & modifications.
Publishers disseminate articles• Journal issues, with ToCs
• Build a reputation for a journal
• Metadata records : A&I sources
• Search Engine Optimisation
• Own discovery platforms, eg SpringerLink
• Open Access: new audiences?
• Social media & other possibilities
• Measuring downloads & social media activity.
3 stages of publishing
1. Assess
2. Prepare
3. Disseminate
4. Protect? - copyright
Jason Priem “the de-coupled journal”
http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/10.3389/fncom.2012.00019/full
De-coupling possibilities
• Quality assurance through peer review after publication? – hence Altmetrics?
• Independent peer review before you submit?
• Discovery & navigation: Search engine optimisation, Hosting sites, A&I tools
• Peripherals Online: Linking & Liking!
Are these journals?
• Faculty of 1000 - http://f1000.com/
• SSRN - www.ssrn.com
• ArXiv - http://arxiv.org/
• Math Overflow http://mathoverflow.net/