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Social Sciences Directory Limited

Dan Scott

Quality, affordable open access journalsOctober 2013


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Contents

Issues in publishing

Issues for academics

Social Sciences Directory concept

Successes to date Institutional memberships

JISC Collections consortium offer

Next steps

Summary


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Funding such as the Research Excellence Framework conflatesresearch quality with journals used to publish findings

Propagates need/desire to publish in high impact journals

BUT

No of scientists and research output globally is growingexponentially so the likelihood of getting publication will decline

There are not like-for-like OA journals with high impact factors in all

subjects, so need to consider alternatives

Hybrid model adding to already unsustainable costs

Insistence on importance of journal titles is at odds with user

behaviour

Future funding mandates likely to move away from impact metrics


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Issues for academicsWe run a publication fund for our scholars to cover their article

fees in Gold Open Access journals It turns out that more andmore scholars use PLoS ONE as a means to get out of that

journal roulette. We asked them why they put their articles from

important research projects into PLoS ONE. Roughly half of them

stated that they had tried at one other journal and then got under

time pressure to publish, almost all remaining ones stated that

they couldn't waste time in the submission process of higher

ranking journals. And at least one stated that he knew the article

was good and therefore simply wanted it as fast and reliable as

possible in front of his peers to read it, sacrificing potentialreputation gain for speed

Margo Bargheer, Gottingen University


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No serious scientist that I know of decides to read an

article just because it's published in a prestigious journal,

or, perhaps even more to the point, decides not to read it

just because it's published in a lesser journal. He or shetries to find must-read articles via searches, consulting

colleagues, following references, often without realising or

taking note of the journal in which they are published

Jan Velterop


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Social Sciences Directoryconcept

Keep whats good Editorial independence Quality control double blind peer review

Article structures abstract, methodology, content, conclusion,references

Indexing and archiving

Improvements Online-only content with unlimited pagination

Faster to publish

Less wasted material

Multi-disciplinary and international content to cross-fertilise ideas

Peer-reviewed articles augmented by valuable additional material Affordability - low cost APCs and Institutional Memberships

Cost recovery made at the point of submission rather than re-couped


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Successes to date

Built publishing platforms and launched 2 journals Social Sciences Directory

Humanities Directory

Recruited two editorial boards

Contributions to the OA debate articles, blogposts,conference speaking, social media > a thought leader

Published seven issues (c40 papers) across both SocialSciences Directoryand Humanities Directory

First article fees, institutional memberships andconsortium agreements

Built good awareness in UK & increasingly worldwide


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The editorial team and review

processes

Editors and editorial boards have undergone selection

processes

275 self-registered Reviewers with reviewing interests Anonymously match a submitted article with a qualified

reviewer

Abide by the reviewers and editors decision


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Institutional memberships

University College London

Dr Paul Ayris, Director of UCL Library Services:

I am delighted that UCL has joined with Social Sciences Directory and

Humanities Directory. 2013 is the year of Open Access and UCL is fully

committed to opening as many Open Access avenues as possible to ourresearchers. Open Access is good for research, good for the University and

good for Society at large


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Consortium agreement

SCURL/SHEDL agreement for Scottish universities

SHEDL purchased an agreed number of pre-paid APCs

Internally allocated to Scottish HEIs, based on research output

Aim to allow testing and then full institutional memberships

Dr Richard Parsons, Director of SHEDL:

The change in the UK funding mandate that came in to effect in April 2013

gives us the need and opportunity to explore new publishing opportunities

for Scottish research output. SHEDL has chosen to supportSocial Sciences

Directory because we believe that it offers an opportunity to move to a

new publishing solution which maintains quality standards whilst offering

a more cost-effective model


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JISC Collections

Agreement signed in August 2013

Using JISC HE banding for UK universitiesJISC COLLECTIONS OPT-IN

PROPOSAL

Institutional Membership

GBP1 Journal 2 Journals

Band 1 1,900 3,400

Band 2 1,850 3,311

Band 3 1,800 3,222

Band 4 1,750 3,132

Band 5 1,700 3,043

Band 6 1,650 2,954

Band 7 1,600 2,864

Band 8 1,550 2,775

Band 9 1,500 2,685

Band 10 1,450 2,596

Recent House of Commons testimony

stated that the average APC in the UKwill be 1,500-2,000


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Library and consortia roles

Institutional Memberships and JISC & SHEDL consortia

agreement are highly significant

Demonstrates that the library and consortia side can play a

critical role in decision-making about publishing choice

Global email campaign to HE consortia with proposals

Strong expressions of interest

Flexible

Price bands

Pricing that reflects GDP (special offers for INASP countries)


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Summary

Reform is required and has been mandated

Providing a progressive, affordable and

flexible solutions

Benefit researchers and students worldwide

Thank [email protected]

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