the changing journals landscape - uct emerging researchers programme seminar

The Changing Journals Landscape

From Transactions to PLOSOne...

From Transactions...

•The nature of the early journal community

•Blog writers?

•Constraints of the medium

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

The ‘journals crisis’

•A captive market

•Price increases

•Increase in journal numbers and ‘bundling’

•Impact factors and control of evaluation of scholarship

The internet - scholarship goes

digital •Growth of digital

•Linking and interoperability

•Web 2.0 and community building (Nature)

•‘Freemium’ models

•Adding content adding value

Quote Timmo Hannay

The emergence of Open Access

•The Budapest Initiative - quote

Growth of OA

•OA journal business models

•Comparative growth figures - subscription journals and OA (SOAP study)

•Commercial OA journals

•OA and the developing world

OA and impact

•Debate on whether OA increases impact

Digital Humanities

•Journals and books

•Research funding and affordability

•Linking data

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

Where to now?

•OA goes mainstream - but transitions are difficult

•Protests against bundling

•Altmetrics

•Review of peer review