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Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Era Changes, Challenges, Innovations
CORE Doctoral ProgramUniversity of Tampere, Finland
11 November 2010
Nicholas W. JankowskiVisiting Fellow
Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities & Social Sciences (VKS)Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Preface
• Qualifier: ‘work-in-progress’
• Part of ongoing conversations– Long-time concern across: disciplines, contexts, time periods– Personal: private, one-on-one
• editor-editor• editor-publisher• author-author
– Personal: public events• conference keynote ALPSP• Publishing seminar, Brill• IR11 Roundtable
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http://digital-scholarship.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/
Outline
• Panorama of innovations
• Making sense of changes
• Emerging questions
• Discussion
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Personal Caveats
• Practitioner of traditional social science scholarship– Centrality of the ‘argument’; embedded in relevant literature– Contribution to theory– Empirical exploration– Concluding reflection
• Way of reading – close, critical– may be ‘deviant’ (see, e.g., Alex Havalais blog post)
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Arenas of Change / Innovation
• Publishing process– editorial processing
• Submission (e.g., ScholarOne)• Reviewing• Correspondence• Production (e.g., SMART, outsourcing copy-editing)
– marketing, distributing, archiving, making accessible
• Use: user / reader– ‘consuming’ scholarship– searching– sharing (emailing, social sharing)– annotating, tagging– commenting
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Illustrations of Innovation‘sensitizing concepts’: ordering innovations; intertwined
• Accessibility & searchability
• Assessment (before, during, after publication)– Peer review– Impact factor / H-index
• Functionality (online added values)– Hyperlinks (internal, external)– Visualizations (color, dynamic)– Length– Multimedia – Real-time reference updating– Distribution, form of– Supplementary materials (e.g., data sets, analyses)
• Communicating (social media & Web 2.0)– signalling, sharing, commenting, discussing
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Procedures (‘Method’)
• Informal: exploratory, unsystematic
• Selection: personal, non-random– orientation: new media, Internet – mainly: social sciences, little humanities, very few STM publications– mainly: journals, some book publishers, some special publishing projects
• Illustrations: large variety
• Ways of examining (informal)– editors & board– site functionalities– mission statement– article presentation
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Accessibility 1: SAGE OnlineFirst
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SJO: NM&S 1
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SJO: NM&S 2
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SJO: NM&S 3
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Shifman: Searching further 1
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Shifman: Searching further 2
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Shifman: into the blogospherehttp://survivingmyphd.blogspot.com/2010/10/medium-is-joke.html
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Shifman: excerpts from blog post
I think the authors might have missed a sub-genre here, which I'll refer to as "tech-support are idiots" and is represented in the above XKCD comics. It's true there are many jokes about idiot customers, but tech-support personnel is also often mocked.
I would like to thank Dr. Shifman who, at my request, sent me the paper. It has been both entertaining and informative. I wish the authors many citations.
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Accessibility 2: Repositories (SSRN)
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SSRN: illustration of functions
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SSRN: citation info
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Accessibility 3: Open Access
Basic definition: digital, online, free of charge, free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (Peter Suber)
Main versions of OA (research articles)– Golden road: research articles in OA journals– Green road: put articles in OA archives or
repositories
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Varieties of open access
Open Access: overview (2008)
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MediaCommons: Open Access Model
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Open Access Week (18-24 Oct. 2010)
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Assessment: open peer reviewShakespeare Quarterly
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Assessment: MediaCommons & SQ
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Assessment: Peer Review ModelJ. Of Interactive Media in Education (JIME)
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Functionality:International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM 1)
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Functionality: online, multi-media (IJOC)
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IJOC: pdf file
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IJOC: tabular data
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IJOC: multimedia
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JIS 1
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JIS 2
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JIS 3
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JIS 4
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JIS 6
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JIS 5
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Functionality: informal scholarly communication, (ECREA list announcement)
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Seminar.net 2
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Seminar.net 3
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Functionality: informal & formalASA: SocietyPages, Contexts
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Contexts 1
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Contexts 2
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Contexts 3
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Functionality: Article of the Future, Prototype 1
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Article of the Future: 3 (Prototype 2)
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Article of the Future: 4
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Article of the Future: Initial Reactions to Elsevier Prototypes (Sept. 2009)
• Nothing new• Underestimation of editorial investment• Underestimation of author willingness• Misguided estimation of reader interest
Illustrations of comments in blogsphere– Online Journalism Blog– the scholarly kitchen– ReadWriteWeb– Ptsefton– nature network
• And now??? (Nov. 2010)
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Cell Press Roll-out
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Cell Press: video on changes in articles
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Cell: Oct. 2010
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Cell (home page cont.)
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Functionalities: distribution form,University Publishers: Michigan 1
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Distribution form: Michigan 2
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Functionalities: supplementary materials, UC Press: Mark Twain Project
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Functionalities: supplementary materials: Open Folklore
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Communicating: SAGE, communicationspace
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Communicationspace 2
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Communicationspace 3
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Communicationspace 4
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Communicationspace 5 (group)
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Coming to a Close...• Areas of change
– Information acquisition & presentation (e.g.,search, display)
– Sharing, exchanging (e.g. sending, social bookmarks)
– Communicative functions (e.g., blogs, discussion lists, social media)
• Change agents– commercial, publisher-driven (e.g., Elsevier, SAGE, Springer Open Choice)– Open access advocates (e.g., PLoS, BePress)– Design / visualation proponents (e.g., Vectors)
• Attention required: perspective of user / reader / audience
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Questions Remaining...
• What is the political economy basis for ongoing changes in scholarly publishing, both journals and book-length monographs?
• What is the awareness, use, and assesssment of functionalities available in ‘enhanced publications’, particularly those found in journal articles such as those published in Cell Press titles?
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Further reading 1Future of the Academic Journal
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Further reading 2http://www.britac.ac.uk/policy/peer-review/contents.cfm Peer Review: the challenges for the humanities and social sciences. A British Academy ReportSeptember 2007, The British Academy
http://www.nhalliance.org/bm~doc/hssreport.pdf
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http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=351
Thank You!
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Nicholas W. JankowskiVisiting FellowVirtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities & Social Sciences (VKS)Amsterdam, the [email protected]
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