New Publishing Paradigms and their impact on a not-for-profit organisation
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New Publishing Paradigms and their impact on a not-for-
profit organisation
Shaun Hobbs
Database Publishing Director
CAB International
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CAB International• Mission to serve agriculture and the life
sciences globally • Generation, delivery and use of knowledge in
the applied life sciences• 40 member government stakeholders• Established since 1913• CABI Bioscience and CABI Publishing
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CABI locations worldwide
CABI Bioscience CentreCABI Regional Centre CABI Publishing office
CAB International HQ
Project staff
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CAB International office
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CABI Bioscience
• Scientists based worldwide
• Core biodiversity skills, particularly in fungi and insects
• Sustainable Agriculture projects
• Biocontrol emphasis
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CABI Publishing
• Books and Reference Works • Bibliographic Databases
- CAB Abstracts - Subsets, including Forest Science Database, Forestry
Abstracts, Agroforestry Abstracts
• Primary and Review Journals • Compendia and multi-media CD-ROMs
• Information Science
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Our Brand
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CONTENT FUNCTIONALITY CONTEXT
CUSTOMER VALUE---CUSTOMER VALUE---CUSTOMER VALUE
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Search and navigation
• 11.5 billion pages on the indexable web
• Deep web estimated to be up to 500 times greater
• Broad search engines necessary
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Science-specific search and navigation
• Publisher’s websites
• Google Scholar
• Abstracting and Indexing databases
• A need to cover electronic and print material
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CAB Abstracts• 90 years unbroken activity
• Premier agricultural database
• Agriculture, environment and forestry
• Access to nearly 5 million references from 1973 to 2005
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What we do• 230,000 abstract records per year • From 43,000 documents • Around 9000 journals, books, conferences,
etc, screened each year (2000 unique serials) • Material from 125 countries in over 50
languages • Maximise linkage to full text
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CAB Abstracts Development
• Customer focused development of niche
• Increased coverage - water, food
• Increased journal coverage
• Indexing new electronic only web publications
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Scientific Content• Increased scientific information
available
• Primary journals still important
• Move to online access (55% of STM information sales in Europe)
• Interest in digitising archival literature
• Open Access repositories
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Content development
• Publishing in print and electronic media
• Partnerships with other organisations, e.g. Chinese Agricultural University
• Digitising Archives
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CAB Abstracts Archive
• CABI has produced print abstract journals since 1913
• 600 volumes, produced over 60 years• Forestry Abstracts (1939-1972)• Review of Agricultural Entomology (1913-1972) • Plant Breeding Abstracts (1930-1972)
• Over 1.8 million archival records
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Content Repositories
• Often free access
• Pre-print and post-print
• arXiv, PubMed Central, Public Library of Science - Biology
• University repositories
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Content Developments
• CAB Abstracts indexes difficult-to-get material
• Users expect easy link to electronic full text
• CAB Abstracts Full Text Select will digitise, host, archive and link difficult content
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CAB Abstracts Full Text Select
• Advances in drying of wood. NTI papers from COST seminars• Japanese-European workshop on Cellulose and functional
polysaccharides• Prospects for high value hardwood timber species in the dry
tropics of N Australia• Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology• Journal of Plant Pathology• Journal of Soils and Crops
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Scientific Information in Context
• CABI’s Compendia
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Sharing information
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Web 2.0 - Architecture of participation
• Collaboratories
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Conclusions• Major changes in the publishing environment• Digitisation of old and new material • Multiple publishers• Information for free• New search tools• Analytical tools • Sharing information/data• Examples given of sustainable developments from a
not-for-profit organisation.