Opportunities in Digital Publishing

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Opportunities in Digital Publishing
NLU Connections 2007 Rob Morrison NLU
Library September 6, 2007
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Issues

• The Economics of Publishing
• From 1986 to 2002
• Journal prices rose 227
• Number of titles increased by 58
• Book prices rose 75
• Production increased 50
• Profits for science, technology, and medical
  publishers increased 20-30

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Issues

• Digital Publishing
• By 2016, half of all serials will be electronic
  only (estimate)
• 75 of scholars view e-journals as invaluable
  research tools (78 reported by Portico)
• Print vs. online (costs, preservation, licensing,
  ownership, born digital)
• Archiving
• Stacks vs. server space
• Perpetual access?
• ARL Libraries increased spending on ejournals
  1400 in 10 years represents 42 of all serials
  spending
• 31 (on average) of total library material
  expenditures are for electronic materials
  (Portico)

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New Models
Connexions (www.cnx.org) Collaborative site for
developing, sharing, and publishing on the web
Bepress (www.bepress.com) Services include
promoting faculty research online and
establishing digital repositories JSTOR
(www.jstor.com) Non-profit organization digitizes
and archives scholarly journals Portico
(www.portico.org) Archives scholarly journals
that are "born digital"
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Resources Organizations
SPARC (www.arl.org/sparc) Create Change
(http//www.createchange.org/) Open Society
Institute (http//www.soros.org/initiatives/infor
mation) Ithaka (http//www.ithaka.org/about-ithak
a) NLU Special Collections and
Archives (http//www.nl.edu.proxy.nl.edu/library/a
rchives/) NLU resource page http//faculty.nl.e
du/rmorrison/rcr.htm
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References
Economics of Publishing Office of Scholarly
Communication, University of California
http//osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/facts/econ_o
f_publishing.html Digital Publishing Surveying
the E-Journal Preservation Landscape. Anne R.
Kenney. Portico Participants Meeting. American
Library Association Annual Conference, June 2007.
Washington DC. Portico figures
http//www.portico.org/about/why.html