Publication Title

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Scientific Publishing New Masters, New Rules
René Olivieri, Chief Operating Officer Wiley-Black
well
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Research and Development

• Global Expenditure 1,000 billion
• Growth rate 3.5pa in OECD areas
• No of researchers 5.5 million
• No of articles 1.6 million

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Research and Development Spend

• Lisbon objective for EU from 2 of GDP in
  2004 to 3 in 2010.
• China 94 billion in 2004
• 136 billion in 2006
• 200 billion target in 2010
• US 300 billion

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Research Development Publishing

• Global Revenues c.6.5billion
• Growth rate 3.5 by article
• No of titles c.25,000 peer reviewed active
  learned journals
• No of publishers c.2000 journal publishers of
  whom top 20 represent 64 of articles
• (Wiley-Blackwell has 10.5 of articles and is no.
  2 after Elsevier at 24)

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Traditional Global Research Communication
Traditional cycle of research communication
through paper-based journals
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Current/Future Global Research Communication
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Open Access Movement

• Open Access (OA) is free, permanent online access
  to the full text of research articles for anyone,
  worldwide.
• Driven by
• Claims of a serials crisis (libraries cannot
  afford rising prices of journals)
• View that research can be accelerated by OA
• Political pressure to make results of research
  funded by tax payer freely available
• The expectations revolution

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Two roads to Open Access

• Golden Road
• Basically pay-to-publish. Journals provide OA by
  charging the author/institution. Some publishers
  simply make their online edition free for all.
• Green Road
• Authors archive their articles in an
  Institutional Repository or a Subject Repository
  for free access over the internet. Publishers
  usually set an embargo (eg article can be
  self-archived no sooner than 12 months after
  publication), although there is pressure to
  reduce the length of embargo.

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The New Masters

• Societies
• Funding Bodies
• Governments
• Researchers themselves

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The New Rules

• Publishing is a service not a product
• Scientific publishing is a political and
  therefore a moral/emotional issue
• Selection and validation is as important as ever