OPEN ACCESS INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES The views of a society publisher Robert Campbell Blackwell Publishing

OPEN ACCESS INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

The views of a society publisher

Robert CampbellBlackwell Publishing

Open Access Institutional Repositories – 26 January 2005

2

ABOUT BLACKWELL PUBLISHING

MISSION STATEMENT

Partnerships in learning, research and professional practice

• Our mission is to provide an expert publishing service to other experts - authors, editors, librarians, researchers, teachers and their students, societies and professionals - enabling them to do their jobs better.

• We aim continuously to improve the quality and effectiveness of our products and services.

• Just as we support the advance of knowledge and learning, we are constantly developing our own professional skills too.

• We strive to align our goals and values with those of our clients and customers. In partnership with them we are making an important contribution to society.


3

ABOUT BLACKWELL PUBLISHING

• 2004 Sales

– £187M (£153M journals, £34M books)

• 755 journals

• Working with 600 societies

• 65 additional journal titles in 2005 including 37 new partnerships (societies)


4

HOW ARE SOCIETY JOURNALS DIFFERENT?

Pricing and citation

• Three-quarters (148) of top 200 and two-thirds (345) of top 500 ISI ranked titles are owned by Societies or other non-profits

• 25% of the 148 are contracted out to another publisher

• 35% of the 345 are contracted out

• Average price per page is lower than commercial equivalents


5

ISSUES FOR SOCIETIES

• Members join for conference and journal

• How many members will be lost with Open Access?

• Will self-archiving undermine subscriptions?

• Many societies dependent on publishing income

• Authors like having a PDF but how should their use of this be controlled?

• Switch from CAF (Copyright Assignment Form) to ELF (Exclusive Licence Form) has some appeal


6

ISSUES FOR SOCIETIES (continued)

• Don’t seem too concerned about Green

status

• Fairly aware of NIH story

• Most see need for embargo to protect journal

• Impact Factor is very important

• Not interested in being associated with pre-

print servers

• Capable of changing their minds very quickly


7

THE VERSION QUESTION

At the Publisher

Submitted 12/11/04

Accepted 10/12/04

Online Early 23/12/04

Online 21/1/05

Print-on-paper 28/1/05

At the Institutional Repositories

Pre-print

Post-print – author’s version of the accepted work

PDF (publisher’s version)

Other authors’ versions on other IRs

Final author’s version at PubMedCentral

?European counterpart to PubMedCentral


8

ISSUES FOR CROSSREF IN ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH IRs

Mission • To provide services that bring the scholar to authoritative primary content,

focusing on services that are best achieved through collective agreement by publishers.

Status• 350 members (2/3 not-for-profit), 1400 publishers• 10,833 journals• 4,640 books• 11,000 conference proceedings• $3M annual turnover• 326 depositors: 285 linkers

Issues• Match rate (successful linking up from 18% in 2003 to 27% in 2004)• Multiple Resolution• Relationship between Google and CrossRef Search• New content (spreading out from STM)• Relationship with Institutional Repositories but lack of clarity on their role


9

HOW DO WE GO FORWARD?

• As the IR system becomes more comprehensive and efficient so we could see more protection of the subscription base

• What might the balance be?

• If a journal offers free access after 12 months and insists on a self-archiving embargo of 12 months what need of self-archiving? Why not simply link to publisher?


10

LONG-TERM ISSUES FOR JOURNAL PUBLISHING

• Widespread increase in R&D funding

– UK: science budget £2.4 Bn 03/04, £5 Bn 13/14

– Europe: goal for R&D 3% of GDP, UK currently 1.9% GDP, aiming for 2.5%

– Developing countries: DFID policy, eg Pakistan

• More funding means more papers (1.5M papers going up to 3M papers per annum over 10 years)

• Geography of authorship (RoW: 25% in 1983, nearly 50% in 2003)

• Will the Impact Factor pattern change with greater volume?

• Technology in place for production and in development for discovery

• What models will partner this technology?


11

CHANGING PATTERN OF IMPACT FACTOR

Range No. of titles % No. of titles % No. of titles % No. of titles %20 & over 24 0.41% 11 0.22% 0 0.00% 0 0.00%10 to 19 62 1.05% 39 0.79% 2 0.12% 1 0.06%5 to 9 178 3.01% 114 2.30% 14 0.82% 9 0.54%1 to 4 2495 42.24% 1686 33.97% 490 28.59% 314 18.78%below 1 3148 53.29% 3113 62.72% 1208 70.48% 1348 80.62%Total 5907 - 4963 - 1714 - 1672 -

Science Citation Index Social Science Citation Index2003 1997 2003 1997

Documents

OPEN ACCESS INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES The views of a society publisher Robert Campbell Blackwell Publishing