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Should university presses adopt an open access [electronic publishing] business model for all of their scholarly books?
No full textThis paper analyzes U.S. university press datasets (2001-2007) to determine net publishers? revenues and net publishers? units, the major markets and channels of distribution (libraries and institutions; college adoptions; and general retailer sales) that these presses relied on, and the intense competition these presses confronted from commercial scholarly, trade, and college textbook publishers entering these three markets. ARIMA forecasts were employed to determine projections for the years 2008-2012 to ascertain changes or declines in market shares. The paper concludes with a brief series of substantive recommendations including the idea that university presses must consider abandoning a ?print only? business model and adopt an ?Open Access? electronic publishing model in order to reposition the presses to regain the unique value proposition these presses held in the late 1970s
Open access in India: hopes and frustrations
No full textCurrent status of scientific research and progress made in open access ? OA journals, OA repositories and open course ware - in India are reviewed. India is essentially feudal and hierarchical; there is a wide variation in the level of engagement with science and research and there is a wide gap between talk and action. Things never happen till they really happen. The key therefore is constant advocacy and never slackening the effort, and to deploying both bottom-up and top-down approaches. The author? own engagement with the Science Academies and key policymakers is described. Indian Institute of Science is likely to deposit a very large proportion of the papers published by its faculty and students in the past hundred years in its EPrints archive. There is hope that CSIR will soon adopt open access
Social tagging and Dublin core: a preliminary proposal for an application profile for DC social tagging
No full textThe Web 2.0 maximizes the Internet concept of encouraging its users to cooperate effectively for the offer of virtual services and content organization. Among the various potentialities of the Web 2.0, folksonomy appears as a result of the free assignment of tags to the Web?s resources by their users/ readers. Despite tags describe the Web?s resources, generally they are not integrated in the metadata. In order for them to be intelligible by machines and therefore used in the Semantic Web context, they have to be automatically allocated to specific metadata elements. There are many metadata formats. The focus of this investigation will be the Dublin Core Metadata Terms (DCTerms) that is a widely used set of properties for the description of electronic resources. A subset of DCTerms, the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES), has been adopted by the majority of Institutional Repositories? platforms as a way to promote interoperability. We propose a research that intends to identify elements of the metadata originated from folksonomies and propose an application profile for DC Social Tagging. That will allow tags to be conveniently processed by interoperability protocols, particularly the Open Archives Initiative ? Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). This paper will present the results of the pilot study developed in the beginning of the research as well as the metadata elements preliminarily defined
Brazilian open access initiatives: key strategies and challenges
No full textThis overview of key Open Access (OA) strategies in Brazil over the last three years describes the guidelines, tools and methodologies needed for Brazil to become an effective actor in the worldwide open access movement. We review general trends and awareness of OA, as well as ongoing developments and policies, opportunities and challenges, both national and international. The institutionalization of Brazilian scientific research is described, along with advances in open access journals and repositories, as well as institutional and governmental policies and the problems that have slowed their progress. Among the major actions targeted recently are plans and actions specific to Portuguese-speaking countries, as well as international collaboration. We conclude with challenges and opportunities ahead
The state of metadata in open access journals: possibilities and restrictions
No full textThis paper reports on an inquiry into the use of metadata, publishing formats, and markup in editor-managed open access journals. It builds on findings from a study of the document architectures of open access journals, conducted through a survey of 265 journal web sites and a qualitative, descriptive analysis of 4 journal web sites. The journals? choices of publishing formats and the consistency of their markup are described as a background. The main investigation is of their inclusion of metadata. Framing the description is a discussion of whether the journals? metadata may be automatically retrieved by libraries and other information services in order to provide better tools for helping potential readers locate relevant journal articles
No budget, no worries: free and open source publishing software in biomedical publishing
No full textOpen Medicine (http://www.openmedicine.ca) is an electronic open access, peer-reviewed general medical journal that started publication in April 2007. The editors of Open Medicine have been exploring the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in constructing an efficient and sustainable publishing model that can be adopted by other journals. The goal of using FOSS is to minimize scarce financial resources and maximize return to the community by way of software code and high quality articles. Using information collected through archived documents and interviews with key editorial and technical staff responsible for journal development, this paper reports on the incorporation of FOSS into the production workflow of Open Medicine. We discuss the different types of software used; how they interface; why they were chosen; and the successes and challenges associated with using FOSS rather than proprietary software. These include the flagship FOSS office and graphics packages (OpenOffice, The GIMP, Inkscape), the content management system Drupal to run our Open Medicine Blog, wiki software MediaWiki to communicate and archive our weekly editorial and operational meeting agenda, minutes and other documents that the team can collectively edit, Scribus for automated layout and VOIP software Skype and OpenWengo to communicate. All software can be run on any of the main operating systems, including the free and open source GNU/Linux Operating system. Journal management is provided by Open Journal Systems, developed by the Public Knowledge Project (http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs). OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions, assignment of peer reviewers, through to online publication and indexing. The Public Knowledge Project has also recently developed Lemon8-XML (http://pkp.sfu.ca/ lemon8), which automates the conversion of text document formats to XML, enabling structured markup of content for automated searching and indexing. As XML is required for inclusion in PubMed Central, this integrated, semi-automated processing of manuscripts is a key ingredient for biomedical publishing, and Lemon8-XML has significant resource implications for the many journals where XML conversion is currently done manually or with proprietary software. Conversion to XML and the use of Scribus has allowed semi-automated production of HTML and PDF documents for online publication, representing another significant resource saving. Extensive use of free and open source software by Open Medicine serves as a unique case study for the feasibility of FOSS use for all journals in scholarly publishing. It also demonstrates how innovative use of this software adds to a more sustainable publishing model that is replicable worldwide
Revues.org, online humanities and social sciences portal
No full textSince 1999, the CLEO, ?Centre pour l??dition ?lectronique ouverte?, (?Centre for open electronic publishing?), has been developing Revues.org, the oldest French social sciences portal, which now gathers more than one hundred and fifty journals. The centre promotes the dissemination of scientific literature in the humanities and social sciences by developing electronic publishing. It federates scholarly journals, provides them with a technological support and helps them to settle their visibility on the internet. It also fosters the learning of skills linked to electronic publishing by organizing trainings and by producing documentation. This project originates from the French scientific community. All journals follow academic and scholarly standards in the fields of history, politics, geography, sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc. They are owned by learned societies, major research centres, university institutes or private publishers. Most of them receive funds from the CNRS, the CNL (Centre national du livre in France) or universities
The SCOAP3 project: converting the literature of an entire discipline to open access
No full textThe High-Energy Physics (HEP) community spearheaded Open Access with over half a century of dissemination of pre-prints, culminating in the arXiv system. It is now proposing an Open Access publishing model which goes beyond present, sometimes controversial, proposals, with a novel practical approach: the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3). In this model, libraries and research institutions federate to explicitly cover the costs of the peer-review and other editorial services, rather than implicitly supporting them via journal subscriptions. Rather than through subscriptions, journals will their costs from SCOAP3 and make the electronic versions of their journals free to read. Unlike many ?author-pays? Open Access models, authors are not directly charged to publish their articles in the Open Access paradigm. Contributions to the SCOAP3 consortium are determined on a country-by-country basis, according to the volume of HEP publications originating from each country. They would come from nation-wide re-directions of current subscriptions to HEP journals. SCOAP3 will negotiate with publishers in the field the price of their peer review services through a tendering process. Journals converted to Open Access will be then decoupled from package licenses. The global yearly budget envelope for this transition is estimated at about 10 Million Euros. This unique experiment of ?flipping? from Toll Access to Open Access all journals covering the literature in a given subject is rapidly gaining momentum, and about a third of the required budget envelope has already been pledged by leading libraries, library consortia and High-Energy Physics funding agencies worldwide. This conference paper describes the HEP publication landscape and the bibliometric studies at the basis of the SCOAP3 model. Details of the model are provided and the status of the initiative is presented, debriefing the lessons learned in this attempt to achieve a large-scale conversion of an entire field to Open Access
Publishing with the CDL\u27s eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
No full textThe eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is a powerful and highly configurable platform for providing access to digital content. It is specifically designed to support rapid development by allowing the implementer to easily control data flow and presentation at any point using the easily-learned XSLT language. However, this level of flexibility can make for a steep learning curve. In this hands-on workshop we will concentrate on some common tasks in the development of a custom interface and guide the participants through their solution. Our goal is to give you enough skills to allow you to continue development on your own
Scholarly publishing within an eScholarship framework - Sydney eScholarship as a model of integration and sustainability
No full textThis paper will discuss and describe an operational example of a business model where scholarly publication (Sydney University Press) functions within an eScholarship framework that also integrates digital collections, open access repositories and eResearch data services. The paper will argue that such services are complementary, and that such a level of integration benefits the development of a sustainable publishing operation. The paper describes the business model as a dynamic hybrid. The kinds of values considered include tangible and intangible benefits as well as commercial income. The paper illustrates the flexible operational model with four brief cases studies enabled by integrating repository, digital library, and data services with an innovative publishing service