MOAC DTC Wednesday lunchtime talk

MOAC Seminar Room, top floor, Senate House

Wednesday 28th Nov – ALL WELCOME!12.50pm - Lunch

1.10-1.45pm - Seminar

Speaker: Jenny Delasalle University of Warwick

“What do publishers do for you?”

What do you want from a publisher?1. Edit and improve your work

2. Prestige & publicity

3. Your rights: protection against plagiarism

4. Perpetual record of your work

5. Money!

6. Audience: – broad distribution / target community.– recognition amongst scholars.

And FAST!

An aside: Money, money, money…

• Text book!

• A Semi-popular book? (high profile in the press: Dr Alice Roberts / Ben Miller)

• At least not cost you (personally) loads to publish!– Journal Article Processing Charges– Open Access funds

Four Journal functions

1. Dissemination – publishing and marketing

2. Quality Control – editorial & peer review processes. (Publisher Awards & funding of research.)

3. Canonical Archive – storage, DOIs

4. Recognition of authors

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/fytton (1997)

Journal editors

• Editorial boards: active or ceremonial!

• Associate or Assistant editors

• Editors: final decision. Comments too?

• 200 manuscripts a year?

• Select peer reviewers & select articles

• Responsibilities– Developing the discipline– Defending against bias– Appropriate and inappropriate publication– Efficient reviewing process

Ethical concerns

• the work of others is properly acknowledged, credited and referenced.

• data should be accurate and preserved and accessible - as appropriate.

• the article should be complete and publication well timed (eg results not being shared prematurely).

• co-authorship is properly attributed.• confidentiality is respected and maintained.

Editorial office work• Journal Managers & Editorial Assistants

• Management reports!

• Journal home page & Author guidelines

• Copyediting & proof-reading– Spelling– Grammar– Style– xml document

• Digital media? Corrections & modifications.

Publishers disseminate articles• Journal issues, with ToCs

• Build a reputation for a journal

• Metadata records : A&I sources

• Search Engine Optimisation

• Own discovery platforms, eg SpringerLink

• Open Access: new audiences?

• Social media & other possibilities

• Measuring downloads & social media activity.

3 stages of publishing

1. Assess

2. Prepare

3. Disseminate

4. Protect? - copyright

Jason Priem “the de-coupled journal”

http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/10.3389/fncom.2012.00019/full

Jason Priem’s functions

De-coupling possibilities

• Quality assurance through peer review after publication? – hence Altmetrics?

• Independent peer review before you submit?

• Discovery & navigation: Search engine optimisation, Hosting sites, A&I tools

• Peripherals Online: Linking & Liking!

Are these journals?

• Faculty of 1000 - http://f1000.com/

• SSRN - www.ssrn.com

• ArXiv - http://arxiv.org/

• Math Overflow http://mathoverflow.net/

Title URL Type Assess Prepare Disseminate

Faculty of 1000

http://f1000.com/

Community selection of articles

     

SSRN www.ssrn.com

Networking site

     

ArXiv http://arxiv.org/

Subject repository

     

Math Overflow

http://mathoverflow.net/

Collaborative blog