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The business of e-resources and print serials publishing. Perspective from a society publisher Yann Amouroux Regional Manager, Journals IOP Publishing UKSG Seminar Dublin, June 2010

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The business of e-resources and print serials publishing.

Perspective from a society publisher

Yann AmourouxRegional Manager, JournalsIOP Publishing

UKSG SeminarDublin, June 2010

Agenda

Why are publishers around? Some background on IOP Some background on Publishing globally The evolving world of Science,

Technology and Medical (STM) publishing The economics of Publishing

Why do journal publishers exist? First peer-reviewed journal founded in 1665

by Royal Society Journal publishing has evolved dramatically

since, but its core functions remain: Registration of new research findings Quality assurance through peer review Dissemination globally Archiving in perpetuity

The Institute of Physics Scientific charity founded in 1874

Promote and support physics in furthering scientific knowledge

Provide economic and social benefits in the UK and Ireland, and internationally – especially in the developing world.

Increase the practice, understanding and application of physics

Worldwide membership of 36,000+ Fund scientific communities (IOP divisions and groups) Leading communicator of physics-related science to all

audiences, from specialists through to government and the general public.

Offers free or concessionary digital membership to physicists from developing countries “Development Aid” programme currently benefits

researchers in over 30 countries

IOP Publishing

Wholly owned subsidiary of IOP Mission: “To disseminate a knowledge of

Physics” IOP 2009 300 staff in six countries

Offices in Bristol (UK), Washington DC and Philadelphia (USA)

Sales and editorial offices in Russia, China, Japan, Germany and Poland

Cooperation with many smaller societies in Europe and worldwide

Publishing globally 2,000 publishers publish around 1.5

million peer reviewed articles per year in 23,000 journals

The industry employs (directly) 110,000 globally: 40,000+ in EU, 10,000 in UK

There are a few major commercial publishers with hundreds of titles each and hundreds of smaller society publishers often owner of just one title

In the last 10 years major changes in publishing practice affected all

Publishing globally: Publishers in STMArticles published

26%

Others

Elsevier

Springer

Wiley-

Blackwell

ACS Taylor & FrancisAIP

IEEE

APSIOP

Others

Wolters Kluwer

Publishing globally: Subject areas in STM

Solicit and manage

submissionsManage

peer review

Production

Publish and disseminate

Edit and prepare

Archive and promote

• 5,000 new editors per year• 500 new journals launched per year • 3 million+ article submissions per year

• 2.5 million+ referees• 3.75 million+ referee reports per year• 50%+ of submissions rejected

• 125,000 editors• 350,000 editorial board

members• 30 million+ author/publisher

communications per year

• 1.5 million new articles produced per year• 350 years of back issues scanned, processed and data-tagged

• 12 million researchers• 4,500+ institutions• 180+ countries• 1 billion+ downloads/year• 10 million+ printed pages/year

• 40 million articles available digitally, back to early 1800s

What do journal publishers do?

• Organise editorial boards• Launch new specialist

journals

Note: industry estimates based on known numbers for a subset of the industry that are then scaled to 100% based on the article share of the known subset.Note: industry estimates based on known numbers for a subset of the industry that are then scaled to 100% based on the article share of the known subset.

Growth in total journals, global R&D workers and STM articles 1996-2007

Solicit and manage

submissionsManage

peer review

Production

Publish and disseminate

Edit and prepare

Archive and promote

• Organise editorial boards• Launch new specialist

journals

Author Submission & Editorial Systems

>£70 million

eJournal Backfiles

eReference Works

>£150 million

Production Tracking Systems>£50 million

Electronic Platforms, e.g.

ScienceDirectWiley InterScience

HighwireScopus

>£1500 million

Bold = Estimated cumulative investment since 2000

Electronic Warehousing>£60 million

Other support and related systems>£300 million

Economics of Publishing: Delivering research content Journals / E-Books

Print Online Combination

Packages / Bundles By subject By format (e.g. electronic bundle) With / without archive

Consortium Some institutions or whole country

Economics of Publishing: Monthly downloads of research papers (IOP Publishing figures)

Monthly downloads to all Journals

0

200,000

400,000

600,000

800,000

1,000,000

1,200,000

1,400,000

1,600,000

1,800,000

2,000,000

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Economics of Publishing: Acquiring research content

The ability for libraries to keep up with output is not growing

Library budgets under pressure Funding agencies and government

bodies engaging with the community Wellcome Trust National Institutes for Health

PubMed

Expectation that research will be openly available as soon as possible

Typical embargo: 6-12 months

Economics of PublishingAverage University & Library spendSource: SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries)

Average University & Library spendSource: SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries)

100%100% 100%100%

University Library

2.3%

Staff 50%

Journals 19%

Books 9%

Other O/H 14%

Instruction 29%

Research & Overhead 68%

Other info 8%

Library 2.7%

Economics of Publishing Research output is

growing Scientists can’t read

every paper anymore New services available

to help scientists identify and obtain content

Publishers need to ensure that their content is accessible in whatever way the researcher may want to access it and invest in necessary technology

Economics of Publishing

Pricing Per title, per article, per subject group? Open Access for all? Institution fees? Universities repository, how costly and effective

will that be to academics? Is there a future for “Big Deals”? New metrics coming into place: usage factor, cost

per download… Cost cutting

Price freeze, limited investment…

Summary – What for, Publishers? Provide the vehicles through which a scientist can

further their career Set high standards of research output Act as a quality filter

Provide a professional and seamless peer review service to ensure high standards are being achieved

Provide the means by which content can be easily accessed Invest in relationship with libraries, researchers and

resellers Continue to invest in offering a high standard of service IT, expertise, systems, new processes and methods

Listen to our communities Adapt business models Provide users what they want

Ensure that published content is available in whatever way the user wishes to access that content

One scientist’s view Philip Bourne, Ph.D., University of

California, San Diego, Editor-in-Chief, PLoS Computational Biology

“Will the contract between scientist and publisher change to be more than one of handling final manuscripts to one of maintaining the workflow of scholarly discourse - ideas, hypotheses, protocols, data, interpretations of these data, and conclusions, all in a variety of formats and modes of dissemination”.

STM International Conference, Cambridge MA 29 April 2010

Thank you

Any questions?

Yann Amouroux

IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK

[email protected]

Tel: 0044 117 9301117