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Market Leadership by

Scientific Online Communityand Open Access

Andreas-M. Selignowat London Online Information

3rd October 2009


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Market leadership?

The journalAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP)has become within 7 years after founding a market

leader1. In quality: impact factor2. In growing rate

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JGR

Atmos Envir

Table 1: impact factorsSource: JCR


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Absolute figures

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Table 2: Amount ofpapers/year. Source:JCR / AGU statistics


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The story behind:Fruits of the the serials crisis

Impossibility of buying journals for many libraries Anger and outrage about high revenues of scientificpublishers among scientists and politicians Idea of Open Access, but no publisher willing to

implement it

Problem: High costs, no way to refinance than grants likethe humanities. Solution: Publishing by internet, not only used for

distribution and upcoming web based peer review, but

also for production


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Success from crisis

2001 the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics(ACP) was founded as an Open Access Journal by EGS,

now EGU (European Geosciences Union www.egu.eu) 2009 it is one of the three leading journals in this area,

has about 600 papers per year

ACP page production is growing about 25 % every yearand its impact factor reached 4.9

The main competitors: AGUs Journal of Geophysical Research / D: Atmospheric :

about 1000 papers/year (growing 15 %), impact factor 3.1(constant)

Elseviers Atmospheric Environment. About 800 papers/yr


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Success factors1. the early adoption of open access: everybody can cite =>

maximizing impact factor

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a most lean production: service charges < 50 % of 3. elaborated public peer review workflow /discussion journal

boosts quality

4. automated editor (and referee) choice for large publications(> 60 editors)

5. integration of institutional sponsors for open accesspublishing (MPG, CNRS INSU, DFG, VW, Univ. Gttingen)

6. early web 2.0 community building7. sophisticated alert services8. integrated meeting management system


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Lean Publishing System

Publishing

Online and/or print Subscription via shop Archive

ProductionUpload final version Typesetting Accounting

Survey

technical Peer Review Public Discussion Chief-Editor o.k.

Online Submission

Registration Upload


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Publication costs

Traditional paid journals: Nothing except colored pagesetc.

Springer Open Choice: 3000 $ (2000 ) de Gruyter: 1750 ACP: 1000

depending on length and MS preparation (70150 per page, up tograde of adoption of stylesheet) Often sponsored


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Elaborated public peer review

SubmissionAccessReview

PublicDiscussion

FinalPublication

SubmissionPeer

Review Publication

Traditional peer review

Public peer review

Details on http://www.copernicussystems.net/en/peer-review-und-publishing/public-peer-review/


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Automated editor choice

Editors are in a 4-dimensional grid E-Mail to all editors of subject area chosen by author Automatic reminders and widening of subject area Advantage: (nearly) no capacity management


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Public Peer Review

After quick access review the article is publicly discussedin a forum, also referee reviews are public Advantages: All traditional quality enhancements transparency via public documented decisions (Discussion

journal, all comments are paginated)

less problems with plagiarism, intrigues and scientific fraud maximum quality of reviews low rejection rates (10-20% vs. 30-70%) provides empathy with the journal


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COSIS.net

Communitiy of 40,000active Geoscientists Now opened to allsciences and humanities

Services for networking peer review conference management management of

associations


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COSIS.net: enterprise software forscientific associations / eScience platform

userJournals

Online SubmissionOnline XML EditorPublic Peer ReviewProductionPublicationMetadata-PushAccounting

Meetings

SkeletonCall for ProgrammeCall for PapersRoom PlanningRegistrationindiv. ProgrammeAbstracts-CDRealizationAccounting

Association

MemberAdministration

ElectionsPRWebsiteNewsletterStatisticsAwards

Communication

Social NetworkingForums, GroupsAddress booksSearchAlert-ServiceRSSJob Portal

shop


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Sophisticated alert services

Daily email alerts only about fields of interest Advantages: consumable portions, noise reduction


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Conference management as successfactor for journals

Conferences produce proceedings, mostly as specialissues, i.e. more articles

Financial contributes / cross-subsidization Conferences are widening contacts for fresh referees

(session programme => appropriate colleagues), over

10,000 participants per conference Constitute and strenghen network Updated profiles / addresses once a year


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Conclusions

Open access journals can reach or outrange traditionalA-journals.

Lean production costs and better quality lead to success:in quality and quantity and in economics (> 500,000 $turnover of one journal). Open Access is a prosperingbusiness model.

A web community supports the promotion of the papers,provides new authors and reviewers, spend ideas forlean workflows, and strengthens empathy with theproduct.


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More information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_peer_review http://atmos-chem-phys.net (public relations) http://www.cosis.net (register for free) http://www.copernicussystems.net/en/peer-review-und-publishing/public-peer-

review/ (COSIS.net system provider)

http://www.egu.eu (publications) Ulrich Pschl and Thomas Koop: Interactive open access publishing and

collaborative peer review for improved scientific communication and quality

assurance. Information Services & Use 28 (2008) 105107, DOI 10.3233/ISU-2008-0567, IOS Press (and many more by Ulrich Poeschl initiator andchief executive editor ofAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics)

Data basis for charts: Thomsonreuters Journal Citation Report 2002-2008(JCP), journal statistics from www.agu.org, and from www.atmos-chem-phys.net


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