the changing journals landscape - uct emerging researchers programme seminar
TRANSCRIPT
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