the changing journals landscape - uct emerging researchers programme seminar
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The Changing Journals Landscape
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From Transactions to PLOSOne...
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From Transactions...
•The nature of the early journal community
•Blog writers?
•Constraints of the medium
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The growth of the commercial journal•From 17th to 20th century, mostly
society and independent journals
•Post war, the information society provides opportunities for commercial players
•Consolidation - now 4 companies dominate
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The ‘journals crisis’
•A captive market
•Price increases
•Increase in journal numbers and ‘bundling’
•Impact factors and control of evaluation of scholarship
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The internet - scholarship goes
digital •Growth of digital
•Linking and interoperability
•Web 2.0 and community building (Nature)
•‘Freemium’ models
•Adding content adding value
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Quote Timmo Hannay
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The emergence of Open Access
•The Budapest Initiative - quote
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Growth of OA
•OA journal business models
•Comparative growth figures - subscription journals and OA (SOAP study)
•Commercial OA journals
•OA and the developing world
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OA and impact
•Debate on whether OA increases impact
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Digital Humanities
•Journals and books
•Research funding and affordability
•Linking data
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PLOSOne - a disruptive model •Broad cross-disciplinary
•Splitting of technical and impact peer review
•Linking of supplementary content
•Article as part of research in progress
•Commercial journals following this trend
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Where to now?
•OA goes mainstream - but transitions are difficult
•Protests against bundling
•Altmetrics
•Review of peer review