scholarly Publishing, CORE, Tampere

Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Era Changes, Challenges, Innovations

CORE Doctoral ProgramUniversity of Tampere, Finland

11 November 2010

Nicholas W. JankowskiVisiting Fellow

Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities & Social Sciences (VKS)Amsterdam, the Netherlands

[email protected]

Preface

• Qualifier: ‘work-in-progress’

• Part of ongoing conversations– Long-time concern across: disciplines, contexts, time periods– Personal: private, one-on-one

• editor-editor• editor-publisher• author-author

– Personal: public events• conference keynote ALPSP• Publishing seminar, Brill• IR11 Roundtable

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http://digital-scholarship.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/

Outline

• Panorama of innovations

• Making sense of changes

• Emerging questions

• Discussion

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Personal Caveats

• Practitioner of traditional social science scholarship– Centrality of the ‘argument’; embedded in relevant literature– Contribution to theory– Empirical exploration– Concluding reflection

• Way of reading – close, critical– may be ‘deviant’ (see, e.g., Alex Havalais blog post)

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Arenas of Change / Innovation

• Publishing process– editorial processing

• Submission (e.g., ScholarOne)• Reviewing• Correspondence• Production (e.g., SMART, outsourcing copy-editing)

– marketing, distributing, archiving, making accessible

• Use: user / reader– ‘consuming’ scholarship– searching– sharing (emailing, social sharing)– annotating, tagging– commenting

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Illustrations of Innovation‘sensitizing concepts’: ordering innovations; intertwined

• Accessibility & searchability

• Assessment (before, during, after publication)– Peer review– Impact factor / H-index

• Functionality (online added values)– Hyperlinks (internal, external)– Visualizations (color, dynamic)– Length– Multimedia – Real-time reference updating– Distribution, form of– Supplementary materials (e.g., data sets, analyses)

• Communicating (social media & Web 2.0)– signalling, sharing, commenting, discussing

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Procedures (‘Method’)

• Informal: exploratory, unsystematic

• Selection: personal, non-random– orientation: new media, Internet – mainly: social sciences, little humanities, very few STM publications– mainly: journals, some book publishers, some special publishing projects

• Illustrations: large variety

• Ways of examining (informal)– editors & board– site functionalities– mission statement– article presentation

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Accessibility 1: SAGE OnlineFirst

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SJO: NM&S 1

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SJO: NM&S 2

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SJO: NM&S 3

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Shifman: Searching further 1

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Shifman: Searching further 2

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Shifman: into the blogospherehttp://survivingmyphd.blogspot.com/2010/10/medium-is-joke.html

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Shifman: excerpts from blog post

I think the authors might have missed a sub-genre here, which I'll refer to as "tech-support are idiots" and is represented in the above XKCD comics. It's true there are many jokes about idiot customers, but tech-support personnel is also often mocked.

I would like to thank Dr. Shifman who, at my request, sent me the paper. It has been both entertaining and informative. I wish the authors many citations.

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Accessibility 2: Repositories (SSRN)

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SSRN: illustration of functions

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SSRN: citation info

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Accessibility 3: Open Access

Basic definition: digital, online, free of charge, free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (Peter Suber)

Main versions of OA (research articles)– Golden road: research articles in OA journals– Green road: put articles in OA archives or

repositories

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Varieties of open access

Open Access: overview (2008)

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MediaCommons: Open Access Model

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Open Access Week (18-24 Oct. 2010)

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Assessment: open peer reviewShakespeare Quarterly

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Assessment: MediaCommons & SQ

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Assessment: Peer Review ModelJ. Of Interactive Media in Education (JIME)

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Functionality:International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM 1)

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IJLM 2 (journal / editors’ site)

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IJLM 3 (publisher site)

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IJLM 4 (most cited)

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IJLM 5 (related articles)

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IJLM 6 (pop up images)

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Functionality: online, multi-media (IJOC)

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IJOC: pdf file

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IJOC: tabular data

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IJOC: multimedia

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JIS 1

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JIS 2

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JIS 3

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JIS 4

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JIS 6

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JIS 5

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Functionality: informal scholarly communication, (ECREA list announcement)

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Seminar.net 1

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Seminar.net 2

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Seminar.net 3

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Functionality: informal & formalASA: SocietyPages, Contexts

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Contexts 1

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Contexts 2

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Contexts 3

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Functionality: Article of the Future, Prototype 1

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Article of the Future: 3 (Prototype 2)

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Article of the Future: 4

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Article of the Future: Initial Reactions to Elsevier Prototypes (Sept. 2009)

• Nothing new• Underestimation of editorial investment• Underestimation of author willingness• Misguided estimation of reader interest

Illustrations of comments in blogsphere– Online Journalism Blog– the scholarly kitchen– ReadWriteWeb– Ptsefton– nature network

• And now??? (Nov. 2010)

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Cell Press Roll-out

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Cell Press: video on changes in articles

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Cell: Oct. 2010

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Cell (home page cont.)

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Functionalities: distribution form,University Publishers: Michigan 1

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Distribution form: Michigan 2

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Functionalities: supplementary materials, UC Press: Mark Twain Project

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Functionalities: supplementary materials: Open Folklore

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Communicating: SAGE, communicationspace

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Communicationspace 2

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Communicationspace 3

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Communicationspace 4

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Communicationspace 5 (group)

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Coming to a Close...• Areas of change

– Information acquisition & presentation (e.g.,search, display)

– Sharing, exchanging (e.g. sending, social bookmarks)

– Communicative functions (e.g., blogs, discussion lists, social media)

• Change agents– commercial, publisher-driven (e.g., Elsevier, SAGE, Springer Open Choice)– Open access advocates (e.g., PLoS, BePress)– Design / visualation proponents (e.g., Vectors)

• Attention required: perspective of user / reader / audience

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Questions Remaining...

• What is the political economy basis for ongoing changes in scholarly publishing, both journals and book-length monographs?

• What is the awareness, use, and assesssment of functionalities available in ‘enhanced publications’, particularly those found in journal articles such as those published in Cell Press titles?

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Further reading 1Future of the Academic Journal

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Further reading 2http://www.britac.ac.uk/policy/peer-review/contents.cfm Peer Review: the challenges for the humanities and social sciences. A British Academy ReportSeptember 2007, The British Academy

http://www.nhalliance.org/bm~doc/hssreport.pdf

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http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=351

Thank You!

Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Era Changes, Challenges, Innovations

Nicholas W. JankowskiVisiting FellowVirtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities & Social Sciences (VKS)Amsterdam, the [email protected]

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