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New Publishing Paradigms and their impact on a not-for-

profit organisation

Shaun Hobbs

Database Publishing Director

CAB International

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CAB International• Mission to serve agriculture and the life

sciences globally • Generation, delivery and use of knowledge in

the applied life sciences• 40 member government stakeholders• Established since 1913• CABI Bioscience and CABI Publishing

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CABI locations worldwide

CABI Bioscience CentreCABI Regional Centre CABI Publishing office

CAB International HQ

Project staff

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CAB International office

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CABI Bioscience

• Scientists based worldwide

• Core biodiversity skills, particularly in fungi and insects

• Sustainable Agriculture projects

• Biocontrol emphasis

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CABI Publishing

• Books and Reference Works • Bibliographic Databases

- CAB Abstracts - Subsets, including Forest Science Database, Forestry

Abstracts, Agroforestry Abstracts

• Primary and Review Journals • Compendia and multi-media CD-ROMs

• Information Science

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Our Brand

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CONTENT FUNCTIONALITY CONTEXT

CUSTOMER VALUE---CUSTOMER VALUE---CUSTOMER VALUE

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Search and navigation

• 11.5 billion pages on the indexable web

• Deep web estimated to be up to 500 times greater

• Broad search engines necessary

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Science-specific search and navigation

• Publisher’s websites

• Google Scholar

• Abstracting and Indexing databases

• A need to cover electronic and print material

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CAB Abstracts• 90 years unbroken activity

• Premier agricultural database

• Agriculture, environment and forestry

• Access to nearly 5 million references from 1973 to 2005

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What we do• 230,000 abstract records per year • From 43,000 documents • Around 9000 journals, books, conferences,

etc, screened each year (2000 unique serials) • Material from 125 countries in over 50

languages • Maximise linkage to full text

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CAB Abstracts Development

• Customer focused development of niche

• Increased coverage - water, food

• Increased journal coverage

• Indexing new electronic only web publications

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Scientific Content• Increased scientific information

available

• Primary journals still important

• Move to online access (55% of STM information sales in Europe)

• Interest in digitising archival literature

• Open Access repositories

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Content development

• Publishing in print and electronic media

• Partnerships with other organisations, e.g. Chinese Agricultural University

• Digitising Archives

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CAB Abstracts Archive

• CABI has produced print abstract journals since 1913

• 600 volumes, produced over 60 years• Forestry Abstracts (1939-1972)• Review of Agricultural Entomology (1913-1972) • Plant Breeding Abstracts (1930-1972)

• Over 1.8 million archival records

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Content Repositories

• Often free access

• Pre-print and post-print

• arXiv, PubMed Central, Public Library of Science - Biology

• University repositories

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Content Developments

• CAB Abstracts indexes difficult-to-get material

• Users expect easy link to electronic full text

• CAB Abstracts Full Text Select will digitise, host, archive and link difficult content

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CAB Abstracts Full Text Select

• Advances in drying of wood. NTI papers from COST seminars• Japanese-European workshop on Cellulose and functional

polysaccharides• Prospects for high value hardwood timber species in the dry

tropics of N Australia• Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology• Journal of Plant Pathology• Journal of Soils and Crops

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Scientific Information in Context

• CABI’s Compendia

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Sharing information

• Blogs

• Wikis

• Web 2.0 - Architecture of participation

• Collaboratories

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Conclusions• Major changes in the publishing environment• Digitisation of old and new material • Multiple publishers• Information for free• New search tools• Analytical tools • Sharing information/data• Examples given of sustainable developments from a

not-for-profit organisation.