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Title: Creating Change: The Impact of Technology and Economics on Scholarly Communication


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Creating Change The Impact of Technology and
Economics on Scholarly Communication
  • The Ohio State University
  • April 5, 2002

2
Who Will Control Scholarly Publication in the
21st Century? Threats and Opportunities for the
Academy
  • Joseph J. Branin
  • Director of Libraries
  • The Ohio State University

3
Scholarly Communication System
Scholars Create, describe, and use knowledge
Publishers Evaluate, edit, package, and
distribute knowledge
Librarians Collect, organize, preserve, and
share published knowledge
4
Standard Scholarly Communication Cycle
Publisher
Library
Scholar
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Growth ofPublished Scholarship
6
Increase in Mathematical Literature
Andrew M. Odlyzko, Tragic loss or good riddance?
The Impending demise of traditional scholarly
journals. Notices Amer. Math Soc. 42 (January
1995), 49
7
Growth in Scientific Journals
University Libraries and Scholarly Communication.
Association of Research Libraries, 1992, p. 80
8
Book Production Publisher's Units
Book Industry Trends 2001 Covering the years
1995-2005
9
Growth of the Web
Web Characterization Project lthttp//wcp.oclc.org/
gt
10
Type of Library Use by Group and Academic Area
University of Washington Library Newsletter
Winter 2002
Use office computer 1998 2001 76.2 75.7 70.2
76.7 64.7 75.4 71.0 76.1 39.8 50.6 47.5 56.1 57.
4 69.4 48.1 58.5
Use home computer 1998 2001 40.5 43.4 47.1 51.5 23
.6 33.9 37.4 43 49.2 59.6 52.0 62.6 32.6 42.5 45.
7 55.2
  • Visit in person
  • 1998 2001
  • 37.9 28.1
  • 60.7 56.4
  • 49.3 41.8
  • 47.3 40.6
  • 79.7 59.6
  • 82.5 72.1
  • 68.2 45.1
  • 77.7 59.6

Faculty Health Sciences Humanities/Soc
Science Science/Engineering All Faculty Graduate
Students Health Sciences Humanities/Soc
Science Science/Engineering All Graduate Students
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User Priorities
University of Washington Library Newsletter
Winter 2002
  • Delivering full-text to the desktop
  • Providing electronic full-text access to older
    journals
  • Maintaining the quality of the Libraries' print
    collection

12
Rise in Cost ofPublished Scholarship
13
Journal Costs by Broad Subject
Library Journal, April 15, 2001
14
Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries
ARL Statistics 1999-2000
15
OSU Expenditures for Library Materials
16
Whose Fault Is This Anyway?
  • Blame the Librarians
  • Bad Management, Poor Leadership
  • Journal Cancellation Projects
  • Blame the Publishers
  • High Profits for Commercial Publishers
  • Under-capitalized Academic Publishers
  • Blame the Scholars
  • Too much being published
  • Lack of concern about economic issues

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Reforming Scholarly Publishing
  • Questioning Publisher Business Practices
  • Rise of Consortia (OhioLINK)
  • Moving Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academy
  • Posting on the Internet

18
Annual Filled OhioLINK Patron Requests
19
OhioLINK Database Searches Cumulated Monthly
20
Article Downloads from the OhioLINK Electronic
Journal Center
21
Cost Effective Purchasing Power
Average Annual Journal Cost Increase for Typical
Academic Research College Library
Average Annual Cost Increase for Journals
Licensed Through OhioLINK
8.0
7.7
6.1
4.5
2001 vs 2000
2002 vs 2001
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Moving Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academy
  • J-STOR
  • SPARC
  • Bio-One
  • Journal of Insect Science

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Open Archive Movement on the Internet
  • Public Library of Science
  • Romantic Circles
  • arXiv.org e-Print archive

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Sharing Scholarship The Scholar's
Responsibility
  • Support librarians in negotiating with publishers
  • Watch where you publish
  • Influence publisher business practices
  • Experiment with new models that increase access
    and lower cost

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Creating Change The Impact of Technology and
Economics on Scholarly Communication
  • The Ohio State University
  • April 5, 2002
  • Joseph J. Branin
  • Director of Libraries
  • branin.1_at_osu.edu
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