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How the Web has transformed scientific journals
Andrew WrayGroup Publisher, Institute of Physics
Monday 18 June 2007 andrew.wray_at_iop.org,
www.iop.org
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Outline

• The online journal office
• Peer review and commentary
• Historic archives
• Reference citation linking
• Multimedia supplementary data
• New business models (consortia, OA, tiered)
• Virtual journals and search sites
• Social filtering
• ... metadata

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Recent surveys

• 81 of authors prefer to interact with online
  journal systems
• 63 of referees prefer to referee online, 31 via
  email
• 70 of editors publishers report decreased
  refereeing time (-25) and administration time
  (-30)
• Online submission and peer review systems - a
  review, Mark Ware, Mark Ware Consulting Ltd, 2005

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Peer Review and Commentary

• Web allows pre- and post-publication commentary
• Blogs - trackbacks on arXiv
• Atmospheric Chemistry
• Faculty of 1000

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Historic archives and reference linking

• Many journals have digitised their archives
• Science from 1665 to 2007 is now searchable and
  accessible online
• Reference linking is ubiquitous
• Citation linking is growing

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Screenshots of a chain of linked references Go
back in time and then forward
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Screenshots of a chain of linked references Go
back in time and then forward
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Screenshots of a chain of linked references Go
back in time and then forward
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Screenshots of a chain of linked references Go
back in time and then forward
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• Multimedia etc
• Something from NJP
• Any interactive math anywhere????

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Brief diversion into what has not worked Filing
Cabinet
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New Business Models

• Not tied to printing and distribution costs
• Tiny incremental cost of one new reader
• New pricing models
• Discounts for e-only
• Tiered pricing by size of university
• Consortia
• Deep discounts or free access for small
  institutions, developing countries

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New Business Models

• Free to publish vs. Free to read
• Web facilitates open access models
• Author pays
• Institution pays a membership fee
• Sponsorship
• Advertising

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Images of BMC and PR-STAB to show sponsorship and
advertising of OA titles
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Virtual journals and search sites

• Science of Aging Knowledge Environment
• American Institute of Physics Virtual Journals
• Google Scholar
• Scirus

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Scitopia image
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Social filtering

• sharing references and bookmarks
• social filtering of information
• Natures Connotea
• Cite-u-like
• Flickr
• ALPSP awards for innovation
• www.alpsp.org/awards.htm

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Conclusions

• Journals remain very powerful for the peer review
  and credibility they confer
• New services are providing more than just content
  or searching
• Filtering
• Structure
• Context
• Help scientists make sense of what is available
  online
• all based on sharing good metadata