Internal Review Sub-Committee (IRS)

Tom Conte, VP of Pubs

Alicia StickleySenior Manager, Periodical Products & Production

Oct. 2013

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IRS - Committee

The internal review sub-committee was officially formed at the Feb. 2013 Pubs Board meetingMembers include: Tom Conte (VP of Pubs), Paolo Montuschi (MOC Chair), David Bader (TOC Chair), Frank Ferrante (DLOC Chair), Computer EIC Ron Vetter, and TC EIC Albert Zomaya– Support staff include Alicia Stickley and

Robin Baldwin

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IRS Committee - Goals

The goal of the subcommittee is to:– Help "at risk" publications in advance of

any TAB PRAC (periodical review)– Ensure we remain fully informed of every

periodical’s performance– Offer support and suggestions to EICs in

need An extreme (and hopefully rare) outcome

would be to sunset a title provided all parties involved, including the EIC, etc., see the "wisdom" of that action

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IRS - Activities

We initially undertook a review of our Transactions portfolio in 2012Results indicated that we also need to include our magazines in a portfolio reviewThe sub-committee held several telecons between Feb. and JuneThe team met in June in Seattle to review progress thus far

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IRS - Activities

After reviewing data in Feb. that included:– Financials– Peer review health– JCR stats– Subscription trends

We decided to add data review from:– Google Scholar– MS Research– Gartner’s Hype Cycle data

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IRS - Activities

In addition to review of data, the sub-committee wanted to hear from the volunteersSeveral EICs were asked to submit a short self-assessment report and present to the sub-committee at the June meeting– We received responses from the EICs of

MM, CAL, TSC, TDSC, and ToH. There was no acknowledgment or response

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IRS - Activities

Activity around periodical portfolio review continuesThough there are guidelines in the PPM as to which metrics to review, there are softer points of consideration such as the periodical’s place in its community, how data ranks relative to other data points, etc.– For example, some publications may not

have many individual subscribers but the download rate is strong and growing

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IRS - Activities

We plan to continue this work on periodical health assessmentNext steps include:– Defining benchmarks to assist in

identifying periodical health– Continued volunteer outreach

Questions?

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Appendix – Transactions Portfolio Review

Alicia StickleySenior Manager, Periodical Products & Production

From June 2012

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How are CS Transactions doing?

The CS Portfolio has a strong array of topic areas in its Transactions and Letters titlesUnfortunately, our publications are seeing the impact on many levels of changes to the economy, etc.Usage in digital libraries continues to climb while individual subscriptions dwindle

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2006-2012 Subscription Info.

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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

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Individual Subscriber Trends

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2013 Transaction Member Subscriptions      

Title 2011 Apr 2012 Apr % Change

TC 873 677 -22%

TSE 1355 1026 -24%

TPAMI 1601 1181 -26%

TKDE 626 441 -30%

TPDS 607 443 -27%

TVCG 738 574 -22%

Annals 713 637 -11%

TMC 626 443 -29%

TDSC 383 288 -25%

TCBB 414 309 -25%

CAL 179 152 -15%

TH 146 107 -27%

TLT 176 149 -15%

TSC 116 79 -32%

TAC 0 1  

TC TSE

TPAM

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TKDE

TPDS

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2011 Actual vs. Budget by Title

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Actual v Budget

(100,000)

0

100,000

200,000

300,000

400,000

500,000

600,000

700,000

800,000TC

; 503,4

61

TC

B; 517,7

40

TSE; 533,5

35

TSE B

; 554,8

00

TPA

MI; 7

00,3

11

TPA

MI B

; 701,8

00

TK

DE; 266,5

41

TK

DE B

; 233,4

50

TPD

S; 148,7

37

TPD

S B

; 141,1

20

TV

CG

; 52,3

17

TV

CG

B; 96,4

90

TD

SC

; 909

TD

SC

B; (2

0,7

50)

CA

L; 28,1

06

CA

L B

; 22,9

70

TSC

; 7,2

25

TSC

B; (2

,020)

ActualBud-get

*cosponsored pubs not included

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CSDL Usage 2007-July 2012

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Jan-

07

May-0

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May-0

8

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Transactions Downloads

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Xplore Usage 2006-11

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downloads0

500,000

1,000,000

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2,000,000

2,500,000

Xplore Downloads of CS Transactions

200620072008200920102011

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Xplore Usage 2006-11 by Title

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Pattern An

alysis and

 Machine

 Intelligenc

e, IEEE Transactio

ns on

Compu

ters, IEEE Tran

sacti

ons o

n

Know

ledg

e an

d Data En

gine

ering, IEEE Transactio

ns on

Software En

gine

ering, IEEE Transactio

ns on

Mob

ile Com

putin

g, IEEE Transactio

ns on

Paralle

l and

 Distributed

 Systems, IEEE Transactio

ns on

Visualizati

on and

 Com

puter G

raph

ics, IEEE Transactio

ns on

Dep

enda

ble an

d Secu

re Com

putin

g, IEEE Transactio

ns on

Compu

tatio

nal B

iology and

 Bioinform

atics, IEEE/AC

M Transac-

tions on

Services Com

putin

g, IEEE Transactio

ns on

Learning

 Techn

olog

ies, IEEE Transactio

ns on

Hap

tics, IEEE Transactio

ns on

Compu

ter A

rchitecture Letters

Affectiv

e Co

mpu

ting, IEEE Transactio

ns on

0100,000200,000300,000400,000500,000600,000700,000800,000

200620072008200920102011

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Challenges

Page budget increases (and costs) are often outpacing revenueMain revenue source, institutional subscriptions, is meeting its own financial challengesOA is changing the publishing landscapeDo we have the right coverage areas in our portfolio?

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Page Budget vs. Revenue - examples

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2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

0

500

1000

1500

2000

TCPage Budget v. Total

Subs

Page Budget

Linear (Page Budget)

Total Subs

Linear (Total Subs)

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

0500

1000150020002500

TKDEPage Budget v. Total

Subs

Page Budget

Linear (Page Budget)

Total Subs

Linear (Total Subs)

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

0

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TDSCPage Budget v. Total

SubsPage Budget

Linear (Page Budget)

Total Subs

Linear (Total Subs)

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20120

200

400

600

800

TSCPage Budget v. Total

SubsPage Budget

Linear (Page Budget)

Total Subs

Linear (Total Subs)

*all journals are in analysis workbook

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Portfolio Analysis

A healthy publication portfolio contributes to the overall vitality of the Compute SocietyFurther analysis of the data by the Pubs Board is neededHave we leveraged all possible opportunities to gain subscribers?Options include merging more niche titles with those with broader scopes or sunsetting titles

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Assessment

The data indicates that some of our pubs may be heading in the wrong directionIn order to better assess the subjective and objective data and create a path of recovery options for troubled titles, we must create a watch listTitles will be on the watch list for one year (minimum) to allow the EIC and volunteer community the opportunity to respond to concerns

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Watch List Criteria

Should include all current metrics:– Sub-to-pub– Queue (backlog? Not enough available?)– Financial trends– Impact factor– DL usage

An internal, CS-PRAC will give EICs the opportunity to address concerns and offer the way forward

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Next Steps

Approve the watch list criteriaApprove the internal CS-PRAC approachDetermine which Transactions might need to be on the watch listCreate deadlines for EIC responses and thresholds for acceptable levels of improvementBe open to the fact that we may need to merge or sunset struggling titles

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