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- Open Access Publishing The Future of Academic Publishing Dr. ZHOU,Huaibei Scientific Research Publishing November 19 th 2014
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- Contents History of Academic Publishing Web Based Academic Publishing Social Network Based Publishing Open Access Publishing Open Access Library
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- History of Academic Publishing Paper Based, invented by Cai Lung in Song Dynasty of China 1000 yrs ago Web Based Publishing, 20 yrs ago Social Network Based Publishing, 5 yrs ago
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- Paper Based Publishing High Cost for Printing, Mailing and Storage == Low Acceptance Rate due to the Limited Budget Slow Communication due to Air Land Sea Slow Shipping Speed Limited Coverage Due to Cost and Biz Model
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- Traditional Academic Publishing Scientific Articles are stored in Databases developed by a few big publishers University libraries have to buy these databases, it is very expensive ! The Library Budget is limited That is why indexing is needed
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- Current Status of Academic Publishing 2 million plus papers published per year The most valuable asset of human beings R & D funded by Tax money Hiding in disordered journals, pay to read, hard to access
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- Can Anyone Judge Any Hypothesis? Different editors, different taste Many Important Articles failed to publish in world famous journals Journal Ranking and Indexing Controlled by a small group of people
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- Indexing, Impact Factors? Journal, or Article Level ? Traditional IF: average of many articles and over a long period of time Makes no sense Article Level: Citations of an article is better than IF of a journal Google Scholar provides better citation counts
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- Traditional Publishing needs to be CHANGED The Internet changed the world Search Engine indexes everything Free access to contents Traditional Journals are expensive and hard to maintain Governments want the change, scientists want the change
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- How Many Times an Academic Article will be read in a life time? In traditional model of publishing: 7 times on average per article Open Access Model: 1000 times per year per article More audiences, high impact factor
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- Open Access Model Pay by the author (usually funded) Free to the readers Rapid Peer-review Paper get judged by every reader (quality control)
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- Open Access Publishing Started about 12 years ago New Business Model and Internet Based It is new and very promising
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- Quality Control of Open Access Publishing Peer-reviewed, same as traditional journals Editor in Chief or assigned Technical Editor makes the decision of acceptance or not Some publishers tried post-publishing reviews
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- Open Access Publishers A few big players: Biomedcentral Plosone Hindawi SCiRP MDPI Hans Publishers
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- Governments Embrace OA Model
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- OA, We started 10 years ago Case Studies
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- Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) 200+ journals in all research fields 1 million readers, click to download for FREE 100,000+ Authors worldwide 6,000+ Editorial board members 10,000+ papers published annually High views, high citations Indexed by many world class databases
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- Hans Publishers (Hanspub) The Biggest Chinese OA Publisher Chinese authors all over the world 120+ Journals covered all fields 6,000+ paper published annually
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- Open Access Book Publishing Serve world wide scholars Publish academic books Channel promoting after publishing Competitive Price
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- Can We Form a Big OA Database for All Scholars ? A platform for searching, indexing and publishing Open Access Library is the solution www.oalib.com
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- One Stop Shopping for Scholars www.oalib.com
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- A Digital Library for ALL Search Engine - Find the papers you want from the OA journal publishers all over the world Publish a paper in OALib Journal (Gold OA) Disciplinary Repositories - Archive (Green OA) Index - A Journal/Paper database
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- Search Engine
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- OALib Journal
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- OALib Performance
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- Benefits of OA Library
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- The Future of Open Access Library The biggest database for OA articles The biggest All-in-One Journal A smart search engine A new indexing for Academic Articles
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- The 3 rd Generation of Publishing Social Network Based: Facebook, Linkedin, Weibo and Weixin, etc. Web Based Publishing will be transformed to the Social Network based People just need to select and read the information at their terminal
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- Summary The first generation of publishing (paper based) is over The second generation of publishing (web based) is ongoing OA Library will provide a new platform The third generation of publishing (social network based) is booming
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- Thank You Dr. Zhou, Huaibei Scientific Research Publishing [email protected]
