Expanding Global Access

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Expanding Global Access
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• CAIP Meeting
• September 22, 2000

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Mission Statement

• Provide to its members and to the worldwide
• scientific community a comprehensive
• collection, in any medium, of high-quality
• information products and services that
• advance the practice of the chemical and
• related sciences.

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International Goals

• Provide the highest quality research from the
  global research community
• Increase worldwide distribution of content
• Increase global usage
• Increase number of global licenses

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Global Factors

• Global collaboration among scientists
• Global market for scientific information
• Global recognition and appeal of ACS publications
• Web technology driving change
• Country-wide licenses for electronic journals

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ACS International Scope

• International editors and offices increasing
• 55.35 of manuscripts are published by
  corresponding authors outside the U.S.
• Highest cited and most heavily used publications
  in chemistry
• SPARC Projects increasing global awareness (OL,
  CGD)

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The Web Environment

• Publishing at the Speed of Science
• Building global community
• Improving cycle times
• Increasing usage of ACS Web Editions (ca. 10 per
  month)
• Digitizing backfile
• Examining Preprints vs. Prepublication

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Preprint Servers

• Extensive discussions with ACS journal editors
• 1999 survey of ACS members (organic, analytical,
  physical, polymers/materials, biochemistry,
  pharmaceutical, applied energy) produced mixed
  reviews, serious concerns
• Other scientific disciplines (e.g. physics) have
  a tradition with preprints

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Preprint Servers (Cont.)

• ACS is monitoring the development of and the
  response to preprint servers in chemistry

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Prepublication Examples

• ACS Articles ASAP delivers fully-edited and
  peer-reviewed articles two weeks to three months
  ahead of print
• ORGANIC LETTERS receipt to publication 7 weeks
• JBC peer-reviewed unedited articles posted in
  advance

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Global Presence

• ACS has three account managers in North America
• ACS has two international representatives based
  in the U.K and Latin America
• Established global exhibit presence (e.g. London
  Online, Global SLA, Frankfurt Book Fair)
• International authors campaign

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Global Access

• International consortia (e.g. Australia, Finland,
  Sweden, Germany, Israel, Taiwan)
• Global usage is increasing
• Exclusive agent in Japan

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Developing Country Initiatives

• History of donating subscriptions to developing
  countries (e.g. over 800 subscriptions to Science
  Journals Donation Program in 1997 and 1998).
• Participate in Project Bookshare
• ACS has announced FREE Articles ASAP for SPARC
  endorsed ORGANIC LETTERS

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Developing Country Initiatives (Cont.)

• Working with ACS governance and other divisions
  to develop solutions

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Questions for Future Initiatives

• What criteria distinguish potential subscribers
  from gratis access users?
• Will expanded usage degrade performance?
• What safeguards are needed to prevent
• unauthorized redistribution?

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2000 and Beyond

• Expand international presence
• Increase global corporate consortial licenses
• For developing countries, continue to look at
  ways to collaborate and encourage global
  cooperation.
• Test new models