IST-2001-33127

Scientific Publication Scientific Publication Process Re-engineering Process Re-engineering

with SciX Open with SciX Open Publication ServicesPublication Services

Žiga Turk, Assoc.Prof.ziga.turk@itc.fgg.uni-lj.si

OAI Workshop,Geneva, February 2004

www.sciX.net

IST-2001-33127

Publication process re-Publication process re-engineeringengineering

It must be remembered that there is It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the the initiator has the enmityenmity of all of all who would profit by the who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions preservation of the old institutions and merely and merely lukewarm defenders in lukewarm defenders in those who would gainthose who would gain by the new by the new one.one. - Nicolo Machiavelli - Nicolo Machiavelli

ContentsContentsanalysisanalysis

defenders of the old systemslukewarm supportersbarriers to change

SciX Open Publishing ServicesSciX Open Publishing Serviceshow openfor publishing of whatwhat do we mean by “services”

conclusionconclusion

SciX projectSciX projectIST-2001-33127IST-2001-33127, KAIII, KAIIIEU funding €1.000.000EU funding €1.000.000200 person months200 person monthsProject durationProject duration

1.2.2002 - 31.5.2004Partners: 7Partners: 7Deliverables: 20Deliverables: 20, all public and/or , all public and/or open sourceopen sourceWeb: Web: www.SciX.www.SciX.netnet

Maciavellian analysis of Maciavellian analysis of open publishingopen publishing

enmity lukewarm support

“impact factor”

publishers defend monopoly new small innovative publishers like biomed

high

libraries handling paper reason for their existence

some very supportive low

scientists and researchers

seniors with CVs full of paper based references

the internet generation low, unless organized

r&d institutions save money? promote institution

medium

learned societies some endorsing/editing paper based journals

they have nothing to loose

potentially very high

funding agencies they love “objective” SCI and related journals

don’t care much about efficiency

very high

general public, taxpayer has no access anyway is not aware very low because not aware

Turk, 2004

Media addressing the Media addressing the motives for publicationsmotives for publications

paperjournals

open access digital publishing

electronicjournals

topic archives

institutional archives

personal archives

registration of primacy digital notary, similarity measurement

quality certification

publication model invention

dissemination truly open truly open OAI, google google, OAI

archiving involve libraries org. change

bibliometrics alternative to ISI / JSR

profit & sustainability business model invention org. change

Turk, 2003

Barriers on the transition Barriers on the transition pathpath

paperjournals

open access digital publishing

electronicjournals

topic archives

institutional archives

personal archives

technical ! workflow effort retrieval and exposure

legal - copyright issues

financial ! who pays effort? effort?

psychological recognition public interest

organizational who is the “publisher” new roles for old organizations

Bjoerk, 2003

Lessons learnedLessons learnedlearned societies are potentially a learned societies are potentially a very good targetvery good targetthey lack organizational and they lack organizational and financial structurefinancial structuretechnical support must be very technical support must be very time, cost and workload efficienttime, cost and workload efficient

SciX Open Publishing ServicesSciX Open Publishing Services

SciX Open Publishing SciX Open Publishing ServicesServices

publi-publi-cationcation

reviewreview

discu-discu-ssionssion

contri-contri-butionbution

ratingrating

useruser newsnews

selectionselection forumforum

Data layer

VAP

Business object layer providing web services to applications

External 3rd party archives (OAI-PMH compliant)

Application layer providing functionality to end user (Web/servlet based)

electronicjournal

Word/Openoffice.org

client(Optional)

digitallibrary

SciX Metadata Harvester

OAi-PMH

Personal archives

Institution archives

Society archives

conferencesupport

SciX Scientific User

Value added

publications

SciX Industry User

datadatadatadatadatadata

other Metadata Harvester

data

web serviceadministratio

n

Hosted archives

3rd party applicatio

n 1

3rd party application

2

data

OAi-PMH

VAP Syndicatio

nserver

RSSExternal

VAP

VAP Content

Managemnt

application

XML protocols over HTTP

Annotation Discussion

Knowledgemanagemen

tReviews

User managemen

tOAi

adapterCollection

sRepository

proprietary

Other User

ArchitectureArchitecture

OpenOpenTo software:To software:

OAI PMH 2.0OAI PMH 2.0Google friendlyGoogle friendlyOffice 2003 Office 2003 Research Task PaneResearch Task PaneReference Manager, Reference Manager, Citation Manager Citation Manager and Endnote.and Endnote.Really Simple Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Syndication (RSS) feedsfeedsOffice Smart TagsOffice Smart Tags

To people:To people:editorial interfaceeditorial interfacedata export/import data export/import from PC formatsfrom PC formatsmetadata metadata extensionsextensions……

Office 2003Office 2003““research task pane”research task pane”API documented Nov. 7 2003API documented Nov. 7 2003SOAP basedSOAP based

SciX services were ready

up and running nowup and running now

Office 2003 (cont.)Office 2003 (cont.)

PublishingPublishingpersonal archivespersonal archivesinstitutional archivesinstitutional archiveslearned society archives learned society archives topic archivestopic archives

electronic journalselectronic journalsconferencesconferences

multilingual, translatablemultilingual, translatableEnglish, German, Slovenian, Spanish …

ServicesServicesWeb Services ArchitectureWeb Services ArchitectureTruly Distributed Relational Truly Distributed Relational DatabasesDatabases

relations managed by Web Services interface

WSDL for all public functionsWSDL for all public functionsSOAP, XML-RPC, XML, XML-Mime SOAP, XML-RPC, XML, XML-Mime bindingsbindingsOAI, RSS, Office RTP …OAI, RSS, Office RTP …

WSDLWSDL

Implementations (up and Implementations (up and running)running)

one journalone journalthree conferencesthree conferencesfive topics incl. ELPUBfive topics incl. ELPUB1 personal and 2 institutional 1 personal and 2 institutional archivesarchives

multilingualmultilingualrentable services, Web based rentable services, Web based renting and setuprenting and setup

AvailabilityAvailabilitystable, up and runningstable, up and runningopen sourceopen sourceto be released later this springto be released later this springmissing: documentation, installermissing: documentation, installer

ConclusionConclusioncurrent publication models provide a meaningful role to current publication models provide a meaningful role to many players, to all with significant impactmany players, to all with significant impactfinancial benefits were not confirmed by the SciX financial benefits were not confirmed by the SciX project, these would also benefit those not really project, these would also benefit those not really interested in making a savinginterested in making a savingcontrol benefits are the reason for strong support by control benefits are the reason for strong support by the learned societies and individualsthe learned societies and individualslearned societies tend to have a small organizational learned societies tend to have a small organizational footprint and shoestring budgetsfootprint and shoestring budgetsopen publishing should be made available to them as a open publishing should be made available to them as a part of a broader packagepart of a broader packagea digital archive is just one cornerstone of the technical a digital archive is just one cornerstone of the technical solutionsolution

more information at www.SciX.net

InvitationInvitationSciX Final Review / WorkshopSciX Final Review / WorkshopApril 20th, Ljubljana, SloveniaApril 20th, Ljubljana, Sloveniafocus: Open publishing – an focus: Open publishing – an opportunity for learned societies opportunity for learned societies to regain control of the scientific to regain control of the scientific information exchangeinformation exchange