Scholarly Publishing 2.0
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Presentation for conference on 'Researcher 2.0' at the OU on 10 Feb 2009, part of the OLnet project. CC BY-NC-SA or, now, also available as CC BY
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- 1. Scholarly Publishing 2.0 Doug Clow [email_address] http://dougclow.wordpress.com 10 February 2009
- 2. What is scholarly publishing?
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- What scholars publish!
- A distinctive sort of conversation by researchers
- Quality
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- Peer review
- 4.
- Twitter, IM
- Blogs, podcasts (iTunesU), SlideShare, YouTube
- Conference presentations/papers
- Journal articles
- Books
- 5. information explosion
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- eJournals (all e collections)
- CiteSeer, Zotero
- Google Scholar
- OU Library federated search
- TicTOCs (RSS)
- 7. What really counts?
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- Metrics REF
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- Citation counts, impact factors
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- h-index (N papers with N citations)
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- Gaming the system
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- Worse outside academia Technorati (!)
- Quality, impact Peer review
- 9. follow the money
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- Marginal cost of publishing is zero
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- - Moores Law: costs halve every 18 months
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- E-journal price inflation >10% every year
- Publishing costs alone now 575m/y
- 11. Per-article costs
- 5300 Writing
- 2900 Publisher
- 1400 Peer review
- (source: JISC 2009)
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- Subscription
- Open access
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- 50% author-pays
- Self archiving
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- ORO
- 13. peer review 2.0
- 14. JIME
- Radical open publishing with quality
- Author blogs submission draft
- Editors first filter
- Referees blog reviews
- Author blogs revised draft
- Editors review
- Formal publication
- 15. So what?
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- Quantitative change (more, faster, easier)
- No fundamental change
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- Open access important, but small beer (libraries traditionally open, seamless sign-on)
- Peer review remains key
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- New forms?
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- Houghton et al, Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits, JISC, 2009
- Clay Shirky http://www.cjr.org/overload/interview_with_clay_shirky_par.php?page=all
- Twitter: @ciphergoth @mweller @andrew_x @jvvw @Marmara @francesbell @agneskh @KarenK @rjconnelly
- Photos: Erica Marshall of muddyboots.org
