Title: Creating Change: The Impact of Technology and Economics on Scholarly Communication
1Creating Change The Impact of Technology and
Economics on Scholarly Communication
- The Ohio State University
- April 5, 2002
2Who Will Control Scholarly Publication in the
21st Century? Threats and Opportunities for the
Academy
- Joseph J. Branin
- Director of Libraries
- The Ohio State University
3Scholarly Communication System
Scholars Create, describe, and use knowledge
Publishers Evaluate, edit, package, and
distribute knowledge
Librarians Collect, organize, preserve, and
share published knowledge
4Standard Scholarly Communication Cycle
Publisher
Library
Scholar
5Growth ofPublished Scholarship
6Increase 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
7Growth in Scientific Journals
University Libraries and Scholarly Communication.
Association of Research Libraries, 1992, p. 80
8Book Production Publisher's Units
Book Industry Trends 2001 Covering the years
1995-2005
9Growth of the Web
Web Characterization Project lthttp//wcp.oclc.org/
gt
10Type 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
11User 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
12Rise in Cost ofPublished Scholarship
13Journal Costs by Broad Subject
Library Journal, April 15, 2001
14Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries
ARL Statistics 1999-2000
15OSU Expenditures for Library Materials
16Whose 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
17Reforming Scholarly Publishing
- Questioning Publisher Business Practices
- Rise of Consortia (OhioLINK)
- Moving Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academy
- Posting on the Internet
18Annual Filled OhioLINK Patron Requests
19OhioLINK Database Searches Cumulated Monthly
20Article Downloads from the OhioLINK Electronic
Journal Center
21Cost 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
22Moving Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academy
- J-STOR
- SPARC
- Bio-One
- Journal of Insect Science
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27Open Archive Movement on the Internet
- Public Library of Science
- Romantic Circles
- arXiv.org e-Print archive
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31Sharing 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
32Creating 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