using technology to improve quality in education – 2 ian johnson
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Using technology to improve quality in education – 2 Ian Johnson. OVERVIEW. Research and teaching quality Journals as learning resources Growth and changes in journal publishing The Open Access movement Challenges for Open Access publishers. RESEARCH AND TEACHING QUALITY. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Using technology to improve quality in education – 2Ian Johnson
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OVERVIEW
Research and teaching quality Journals as learning resources Growth and changes in journal
publishing The Open Access movement
Challenges for Open Access publishers
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RESEARCH AND TEACHING QUALITY
At the leading edge of knowledge
Specialist expertise
Confidence in the classroom
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RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
Researchers seek Impact Recognition
PrestigeHonours
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ACADEMIC REWARD SYSTEM
Tenure and promotion
Based on research and publication
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PRESSURE TO PUBLISH
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GROWTH IN SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING
Scientific papers1870s – c.800 pa papers in mathematics2000 – c.50,000 papers in mathematics
Scientific journals 1800s – c.90 journals published2000 – c.16,000 journals published in
English (c.16,000 Spanish; 8,000 Chinese) Scientific publishers
1800s - Universities and societiesC20 - Commercial companies
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THE AUDIENCE FOR PRINTED SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
Journals are an essential tool for research and teaching
but Increases in the number of titles, andFixed or declining library budgets
resulted in Increases in pricesFewer salesFewer readersLess read
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CONCERNS OF THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY AND LIBRARIANS
Researchers could not easily access all publications in their field
Libraries could not purchase all titles required by academics
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CHALLENGES FOR LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCHERS (1)
Institutionally funded publicationNo incentive for
•Quality control•Regular publication• Improving distribution
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ACCESS TO LATIN AMERICAN PRINTED JOURNALS
CLASE - Latin American Citations in Social Sciences and Humanities -http://www.dgbiblio.unam.mx/clase.html
INFOBILA (Library and Information sciences) - http://infocuib.laborales.unam.mx/~ibt/infoweb.html
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CONSEQUENCES (1)
Not included in international indexing services
Incomplete collections Journal contents little known Journals not highly regarded
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CHALLENGES FOR LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCHERS (2)
Pressure to publish in English in journals indexed by ISI
Linguistic isolation
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CONSEQUENCES (2)
Best researchers may not publish in Latin American journalsLatin American research and scholarship
is not highly visible Awareness of new developments is
inhibitedTeachers cannot use journals to keep
students up to date Innovation and development is
inhibited
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Questions?Comments?
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ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING – A NEW QUALITY RESOURCE
Low distribution costs High investment costs
Added value featuresCross file searchinge-tables of contentsCitation linking
Digitising older material
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CONSOLIDATION IN THE INDUSTRY
Global market share of English-language scientific journals
28.2% - Reed Elsevier14.1% - Springer Science (incl. Kluwer) 9.5% - Thomson ISI 7.5% - John Wiley/Blackwell Publishing 3.6% - Informa Taylor and Francis 3.6% - American Chemical Society66.4%
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NEW BUSINESS MODELS
The ‘big deal’A package of journal titles
•Limits on selection•Prices based on print subscriptions
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GROWTH AND CHANGES IN JOURNAL PUBLISHING
Welcomed by researchersSignificant increase in journal availability
and use
Resented by librariansPublishers’ unfamiliar with customer care
A cause for concern for universities and research funders
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EMERGING ALTERNATIVES
Librarians trying to negotiate reduced prices
Researchers trying to encourage e-publishing
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OPEN ARCHIVES MOVEMENT
Documentation centres in 1960s 1991 : creation of the arXiv.org
physics archive by Paul Ginsparg 1997 : creation of the CogPrints
archive by Stevan Harnad 1999 - 2001 : creation of the Open
Archive Initiative (OAI) http://www.openarchives.org/
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E-JOURNALS ?
e-publishingGrowing number of e-journals publishers
•SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online, 1997
•CLACSO Digital Library, 1998•AJOL – African Journals Online, 1998
Reorganisation of Chinese journal publishing, 1999-2002
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THE OPEN ACCESS MOVEMENT
Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), February 2002
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml
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GREEN AND GOLD
BOAI recommended self-archiving ‘Green’ Open Access: a journal allows or
encourages the simultaneous deposit of peer-reviewed published papers in publicly accessible online repositories
BOAI encouraged open access journal publishing ‘Gold’ Open Access: a journal charges
nothing to readers for access to the electronic versions of articles published in it
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GROWING ENDORSEMENT OF OPEN ACCESS
Bethesda Statement, April 2003 Berlin Declaration, October 2003 OECD Declaration, January 2004 IFLA Statement, April 2004 Scottish Declaration, October 2004 Rio Framework for Open Science, June 2006
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OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL MODELS
Journals supported byAuthor payment per article
• Institutional or consortial membership • Free publication for those who cannot afford it
Start-up grants Commercial income – advertising and
sponsorshipVoluntary activity and involuntary support
Hybrid journals Delayed Open Access
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ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING IN LATIN AMERICA
Growing investment by commercial publishing companiesGrupo OceanoEBSCOHost, Thomson Learning,
Dialnet, ProQuest Continued pattern of
institutional subsidy
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SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online
550 journals from 8 countries (from 15,000+)Selection
•Regular publication•Peer reviewed•Financial contribution to SciELO
Back issues to 1997?
Colombia in SciELOhttp://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php/script
_sci_home/lng_es/nrm_iso
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OTHER LATIN AMERICAN e-JOURNALS
Library and Information ScienceALFA Project REVISTAS
c.300 journals published in Spanish and Portuguesec.220 from Latin AmericaNot all currently published
c.90 available onlinec.50 from Latin America
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AGGREGATORS OF OPEN ACCESS e-JOURNALS
Europe – DOAJ, EZB
Ibero-America – SciELO, RedALyC, LivRe, REI, RACO
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AGGREGATOR COVERAGE OF OPEN ACCESS LIS e-JOURNALS
Number of LIS e-journals inCatalan, Portuguese and SpanishSciELO
c.90
2LivRe 29RACO 3RedALyC 8REI 15
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Open Journal Systems/SEER
http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/
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Questions?Comments?