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APS Overview

March Meeting Experience

Potential Opportunities for Librarians

What is APS?

Focused on physics

About 50,000 members

2nd largest in the world

Why APS? Supporting the physics population at

my university

Leader in the open access movement

Immersion in an organization where librarian involvement is not “baked in”

APS Structure Divisions

Forums

Sections

Topical Groups

APS Conferences

APS March Meeting Nearly 10,000 attendees Meeting for 14 of the divisions

APS April Meeting Fewer attendees Meeting for 5 of the divisions

2014 March Meeting ExperienceTown Hall Meeting Open Access/Public Access Mandate &

Impact on APS Funding Changes in APS leadership structure to

enable them to better lobby Open data

2015 March Meeting ExperienceTalks on “Scholarly Communication”

-The importance of peer review-The value of scientific journals is validity not dissemination

-Most discussion framed in terms of profit/sustainability

Poster Session

The Crisis in Scholarly Communication, Open Access, and Open Data Policies: The Libraries' Perspective

Rachel BesaraDirector of STEM Libraries & Research Initiatives

Florida State University

A possible or partial alleviation to this problem is the federal open access mandate for publications and data made possible by federal funding. These requirements are still relatively new and their long-term maintenance implications have not yet been set.

The public access approach is a long term strategy. A definite step in the right direction from the libraries’ perspective. However, this will not alleviate the pressure on libraries enough in the short term to enable them to necessarily maintain sufficient access to key titles for researchers.

DataBackground

Problem

Proposed Solution

Impacts

References

Magnetic susceptibility displays non-Curie-Weiss behavior, similar to Yb2O3 [6]. Broad feature around 4 K, due to short range intralayer antiferromagnetic ordering. Yb cation has one nearest neighbor along Besara APS Library Posterc and four next-nearest neighbors in the a-b plane. The superexchange coupling is expected to be strongeralong c within a Ba2Yb2O5, with a somewhat reduced interaction parallel to the a-b plane.

For years the cost of STEM databases have exceeded the rate of inflation. Libraries have reallocated funds for years to continue to provide support to their communities, but they are reaching a point at many institutions where they are no longer able to provide access to many databases considered key to supporting research.

This has put research libraries in an untenable position. Many have cut monographic expenditures, effectively penalizing monographic centric disciplines, such as the arts and humanities, in order to to support STEM research. Others have cut back on staffing and infrastructure expenditures, but this is unsustainable since serials costs continue to increase. Soon, many libraries will have to cut big deal packages in order to stay within budget.

The graphs in the central column provide data showing how journal costs have increased relative to books & the consumer price index and how the universities’ relative library expenditures have shrunk.

Since journal publications have become predominately electronic, publishers have moved away from a single journal subscription model to a “big deal” bundled model, making all their journals available for a set or tiered price.

Commercial publishers often

Since journal publications have become predominately electronic, publishers have moved away from a single journal subscription model to a “big deal” bundled model, making all their journals available for a set or tiered price.

Commercial publishers often take advantage of this system to make high profits. Libraries cannot go anywhere else for the content because of the copyright agreements signed by authors. For example, profits as a percentage of revenue for commercial publishers in 2010 or early 2011:

•Elsevier — 36%•Springer‘s Science+Business Media — 33.9%•John Wiley & Sons — 42%•Academic division of Informa— 32.4%

Morrison, H. (2011). Chapter two: scholarly communication in crisis. Freedom for scholarship in the internet age. PhD Dissertation (in progress). http://bit.ly/1zX5ISI

Bergstrom, T.; P. Courant, R. Preston McAfee, & M. Williams. (2014) “Evaluating big deal journal bundles” PNAS 111 (26) 9425-9430, doi:10.1073/pnas.1403006111

Association of Research Libraries. (2012). Statistical Trends. http://bit.ly/1KgKoBH

With the implementation of the possible long term solution given in the open access mandates, there are at least 3 major changes that will shape the scholarly communication landscape.

•Culture shift in publishing and data sharing norms

•Change in funding models for scientific societies/professional organizations

•Adjustment in library organizational structure to support new scholarship publishing models

Potential Opportunities Attend Meetings to Increase Librarian

Dialog

Physics Outreach Guide

aps.org/programs/outreach/guide/index.cfm

Grants for Informing the Public

comPADRE Digital Library

Thank You!

Rachel Besara RBESARA@fsu.edu