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What Libraries Can Do Active Roles in Scientific Publishing
”Economists, Journals and Libraries”Stockholm School of Economics
August 19, 2003
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Impediments to distribution of knowledge
Dramatic price increases for scientific journals
Lack of correlation price - quality
Market dominated by a few very large
companies
Publishers want to control user behaviour
New and complicated conditions for ownership,
and licensing of e-content
New legal and technical barriers to access
Scientific information – a common good or a
commodity priced per Least Profitable Unit ?
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Library Strategies – old & new
• Journal cancellations & reduced monograph acquisitions – BUT…
• Site & consortial licensing – BUT…• ILL/Doc. delivery vs subscription – BUT…• Promoting competion & lower pricing
(SPARC)
• Promoting Open Acess & university based archives
• Promoting new IPR-agreements• Creating coordination and awareness
among– libraries, academics, administrators, policy
makers, funding authorities, etc.
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Building consortia - does not always help…
• Package deal problems – ”Bound to Bundles”
• National agreements based on certain important principles, e.g. archival access
• United we stand ?– For Science a 17-library consortium license
2002 based on these principles– Renewal negotiations for 2003
– What happened?• The Principle of Least Effort• The Tragedy of the Commons
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Other strategies. 1.
• Actively promote OA and reasonably priced alternatives!
• Avoid the ”Publisher Trap” !• Make open access material and niche
journals visible in a general portal• ELIN@Lund (Electronic Library Information
Navigator)– Contents:
• The global players/publishers• Open Archives, and Open Access Journals• +11.000.000 records in one user interface with
value added services (TOC-alerts, SDI´s etc.)
• Archiving - access to content after termination of license
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Maximising journal usage - ELIN@
ALPSP Alert July 2003. Sally Morris.• ”There's been some debate about linking to
Open Access journals from a library's OPAC. It seems that not all do this, because it's too much work
• In Lund (where the directory of Open Access journals is being compiled) they found this a real problem, so they created ELIN@ (Electronic Library Navigator) to solve it
• Many major publishers, including ALPSP members Wiley, Blackwell, Emerald, Institute of Physics, Elsevier and IEE have provided their journal article metadata for inclusion in ELIN@
• I would strongly encourage other members to do likewise. It can only increase the visibility of your journal”
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Other strategies.2.• University based electronic publishing
– LU:research – a single entry point to research produced by researchers with affiliation Lund •Primary publishing•Self Archiving/Archiving•Dissemination (OAI- compliant) to other
services•Spin-offs:
– Virtual journals– CV`s for research funding applications– Publication database (validation)– Research evaluation (bibliometrics)– Result financing
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http://lu-research.lub.lu.se/
Institutional archive
LU res
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Lund Virtual Medical Journallvmj.medfak.lu.se
LU:research
LVMJ
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Other strategies.3. Dissemination/visibility of Open Access
journals more usage = more citations = increased
impact = more usage etc.
• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals– Phase 1 (completed)
• Peer reviewed• All subjects• All languages
– Phase 2 (ongoing)• Article level search/retrieve• Metadata – creation• Network of editors
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www.doaj.org http://www.doag.org/
DOAJ is hosted by:
DOAJ is supported by:
Open Society Institute
SPARC
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Other Strategies.4.
• IPR-agreements – Transfer of copyright=market power– Working group with representatives from the Law Faculty,
the University legal department and the Head Office for libraries. Proposed Model licenses for the university
• Creating coordination and awareness:– Swedish Resource Centre for Scientific
Communication – ScieCom.org (2002)– 1st/2nd Nordic Conference on Scholarly
Communication (2002 & 2004)
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IPR – Model licenses proposals Lund
§ 2 Author´s right to use the Article
Copyright remains with the Author. This will be acknowledged by the Publisher in the copyright line.
The Author retains the right to use the Article:
- for research, educational or other purposes of the Author´s university/institution
- mounted on a server within the Lund University´s domains (posted to free public servers of preprints and/or articles in the Author´s subject area)
- in whole or in part, as the basis for further publications or spoken presentations
- for publication in the Author´s future doctoral thesis / dissertation provided the Author acknowledge the original Article in standard bibliographic citation form.
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ScieCom.orgSwedish Resource Centre for Scientific
Communication• Inform scholars,administrators, funding
authorities, and libraries about the scholarly communication crisis
• Create a common strategic plan for Swedish HE-libraries to work efficiently with alternative publishing models
• Re-establish control of scholarly communication
• Use bibliometrics, open citation and other methods to analyse and show the ”impact” of alternative publishing
• Intellectual Property Rights - Model licenses • Arrange seminars and courses
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www.sciecom.org
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Proposed development• Raise the issue on Nordic and national level• Transform ScieCom.org into a Nordic
Knowledge Centre for Scholarly Publishing• Continuing discussions:
– Application to NORDINFO & national research funding agencies
– NOP:HS application as a follow up of a recent report on the future of Nordic research publications and the use of Nordic languages. Nordic Council of Ministers
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