ismte meeting plenary: around the world of scholarly publishing

Around Our World in 30 MinutesDavid CrottyEditorial Director, Journals PolicyOxford University Pressdavid.crotty@oup.com

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 Pressdavid.crotty@oup.comAugust 12, 2016