Towards Paperless Periodicals

Henri van Dorssen, Publisher – EnergyElsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK

IFEG, Energy Institute, LondonMay 18th, 2006

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About Elsevier

Science & Medical division of Reed Elsevier (others are: Education, Legal, and Business)

Leading provider of STM information to the academic, research and healthcare communities

Over 7,000 employees in over 70 locations, worldwide Publish more than 1,800 journals; S&T 1,100 journals Leading online information services: ScienceDirect,

Scopus and Scirus Energy portfolio: 25 journals, in addition we publish another

45 energy-related titles in Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Chemistry, Social Sciences

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Helping to Advance Science

Integral part of a worldwide network of researchers, scientists and clinicians

Publish leading edge research and breakthroughs; help to develop new areas of science

Perform the essential functions that add value to the work of the academic community that we serve – submission, peer review, editing, production of print and electronic

Create a definite record of scientific discovery (registration), and ensure that published research is preserved in perpetuity (archive)

Distribute information globally, in formats desired by users Develop and supply innovative information solutions that

deliver increased productivity Taking steps to embed customer-focus in everything we do

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Integral Part of a Worldwide Network Many of our employees are from the communities that we

serve Partner with journal editors, editorial board members, and

referees Article selection is very rigorous – The Lancet accepts <10%;

on average 40-90% of articles rejected Many leading authors and editors: 80% of Nobel Laureates

published with Elsevier in past 50 yrs; almost all of the 200+ most cited scientists published in Elsevier journals

Products and services support 15 million doctors, nurses and health professionals; 10 million+ researchers and 5 million students worldwide

We also actively partner with librarians – Scopus was designed and developed with 21 research institutions

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Adding Value

Organise editorial boards, appointments, editorial meetings Solicit and manage new submissions Manage and enhance peer review Edit and prepare manuscripts Produce 250,000 new articles pa Publish and disseminate to 10M+ researchers in 180 countries Our Research Department helps us to monitor quality, impact

factors, citation trends – feed back to Editors Archive and promote 7M articles through ScienceDirect Deal with issues of plagiarism, mal practice, fraud – set ethical

guidelines, educate authors (China)

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-ScienceDirect (1997): 7M full-text articles, 80M abstracts, reference works- Backfiles (2003): From Vol 1, Issue 1- Pay Per View: 24hrs access, cc- e-Select (2005): 1-yr licence for individual titles + 10 yrs back issues, cc- ScienceDirect College Edition (2006): collections of jnls and/or reference works

Innovative Information Solutions

-Scopus (2004): abstract and citation database of 15,000 STM titles from 4,000 publishers, from 1966 (references from 1996), citation counts-Scirus: free web search engine for scientists (articles, patents, urls)

-Author Gateway: monitor progress, PDF proofing, copyright info, guidelines-Elsevier Editorial System – online submission/review/editorial tool for jnls

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Customer-Focus Customer service programme: systematic customer satisfaction

research, improved training, customer relations management group reporting directly to CEO

Stakeholder feedback programmes: involving librarians, researchers, physicians, nurses, students, authors, editors

Restructured S&T division: mirror the communities we serve; closer alignment to customer segments (academic & government, corporate, and researchers)

Serve on NA and European Library Advisory Boards; with Special Libraries Association (SLA) developed SLA Online University to advance professional development

First, official, independent, digital archive of all Elsevier journals in partnership with KB (National Library of the Netherlands, 2002); recently similar archiving agreement with Portico, NJ

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Journals in the Energy field – a selection

New for 2007

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Developing Publishing Standards that Improve Scientific Communication and Access

Co-founder of CrossRef™, founding member of International DOI Foundation, founding member of COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Resources)

Founding publisher of HINARI and AGORA, UN-based initiatives providing free or low cost access to health, agriculture and related information in developing countries

In 2004 we changed our author posting policy to allow authors to post their accepted manuscripts to their websites and their institution’s repository

Our licences explicitly allow members of the public to have unlimited walk-in access to our online databases and materials subscribed to by a library

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… continued

We make all articles published in our Cell Press journals openly available on our website 12 months following publication; IJSS followed in 2005 at 24 months

In May 2005 we adjusted our author agreements to test allowing NIH-funded authors to meet NIH’s request that authors’ accepted manuscripts be posted to PubMedCentral within 12 months of final publication

Engage with scientific and academic communities in exploring and shaping innovations that can deliver demonstrable and sustainable benefits

Continue to observe, test, learn and implement based on facts, and based on the developing needs of research communities

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