1. Scholarly Publishing 2.0 Doug Clow [email_address] http://dougclow.wordpress.com 10 February 2009 2. What is scholarly publishing? 3. What scholars publish! A distinctive sort of conversation by researchers Quality Peer review 4. Twitter, IM Blogs, podcasts (iTunesU), SlideShare, YouTube Conference presentations/papers Journal articles Books 5. information explosion 6. eJournals (all e collections) CiteSeer, Zotero Google Scholar OU Library federated search TicTOCs (RSS) There is no such thing as information overload, only filter failure (Clay Shirky) 7. What really counts? 8. Metrics REF Citation counts, impact factors h-index (N papers with N citations) Gaming the system Worse outside academia Technorati (!) Quality, impact Peer review 9. follow the money 10. Marginal cost of publishing is zero - Moores Law: costs halve every 18 months E-journal price inflation >10% every year Publishing costs alone now 575m/y 11. Per-article costs 5300 Writing 2900 Publisher 1400 Peer review (source: JISC 2009) 12. Subscription Open access 50% author-pays Self archiving ORO 13. peer review 2.0 14. JIME Radical open publishing with quality Author blogs submission draft Editors first filter Referees blog reviews Author blogs revised draft Editors review Formal publication 15. So what? 16. Quantitative change (more, faster, easier) No fundamental change Open access important, but small beer (libraries traditionally open, seamless sign-on) Peer review remains key New forms? 17. Houghton et al, Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits, JISC, 2009 Clay Shirky http://www.cjr.org/overload/interview_with_clay_shirky_par.php?page=all Twitter: @ciphergoth @mweller @andrew_x @jvvw @Marmara @francesbell @agneskh @KarenK @rjconnelly Photos: Erica Marshall of muddyboots.org (CC) Some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales