The Learned Society view of the economics of journal publishing

Considers a pricing policy for the conventional printed journal and how such policies may be devised for electronic publications, and suggests factors which will influence the economics of journal publishing and pricing in the future.     

Semantic publishing: the coming revolution in scientific journal publishing

Recent developments in Web technology can be used for semantic enhancement of scholarly journal articles, by aiding publication of data and metadata and providing ‘lively’ interactive access to content. Such semantic enhancements are already being undertaken by leading STM publishers, and automated text processing will help these enhancements become affordable and routine. Publisher, editor, and author all have primary roles in that process; an incremental approach is needed. Publication of data and metadata to the Web make possible added‐value ‘ecosystem services‘; semantic publishing will bring substantial benefits to scholarly communication.     

学术期刊出版的权力结构

学术期刊出版体制的市场化改革,需要进一步解放思想,实事求是,凝聚共识.解构学术期刊出版体制背后的权力结构因素,可以全面和深入地认识学术期刊出版体制存在的问题和改革的关键点.通过对学术期刊出版的行政权力结构、学术权力结构、经济权力结构、话语权力结构的解读,试图为学术期刊出版改革实践提供新的思路.     

美国化学会及其期刊的编辑出版

简要介绍美国化学会及其出版机构的宗旨、服务、发展规划,以及编辑出版规章制度.详细分析美国化学会出版期刊的情况.主要从创刊时间、办刊宗旨、刊期、SCI影响因子、期刊出版总页码等方面分析其各种期刊在国际上的影响力.从期刊的单价、捆绑售价以及网络本售价对期刊进行价格方面的分析.以<美国化学会会志>为例,详细分析期刊稿件的来源情况、稿件的处理情况、编辑人员情况、审稿过程和编辑加工过程,以及编辑出版自动化等.     

Scholarly journal publishing in New Zealand

Learned societies and other non‐profit organizations in New Zealand publish scholarly journals in a number of disciplines, many of them subjects in which New Zealand has a particular economic interest. Although most of the journals are small, a surprising number of them have paid, rather than voluntary academic, editors. Some have launched electronic versions, but only one has experimented with open access (OA). In a number of cases this lack of interest in OA is because the society cannot see a business model that would render the society as a whole economically viable. Some of the smallest journals, published only annually, may have the most assured future because their operation is entirely voluntary.     

微信公众平台在期刊运营中的应用

微信公众平台的出现为期刊的采编、经营等工作提供了一个不可多得的利用机会。探讨微信公众平台在期刊运营中的开发背景、如何简单构建期刊采编与广告微信公众平台以及运营期刊微信公众平台所要面临的困难,并提出解决问题的办法。     

Open access journal publishing in the Nordic countries

The number of open access (OA) journals and their share of all scholarly journals are usually estimated based on indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ's coverage of OA journals from different regions of the world is, however, far from complete, particularly of journals publishing in languages other than English. Using alternative data sources for identification and manual verification, 437 scholarly OA journals published in the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) were identified, and some key characteristics were studied. Of these, only 184 were indexed in DOAJ. A vast majority of the journals was published by scholarly societies or universities. Social sciences and humanities dominated as topics, and few journals charge authors. National or university‐specific OJS portals have played a major role in enabling OA publishing. Around a third of the Nordic scholarly journals are currently OA.     

The extent of concentration in journal publishing

This study examines the extent of concentration in the journal publishing industry. A number of aspects are considered: publishers, journal impacts, countries, and languages. For journals indexed in JCR from 1997 to 2009, just 0.2% of publishers produce 50% of journals and articles, and 0.3% of publishers account for the top 50% of citations, impact factors and immediacy indices. More than a half of publishers in JCR are from four countries: USA, UK, Germany and Japan. In addition, more than a half of journals come from the USA and UK. Examining the publishers' interactions in terms of buying and selling journals shows the extent of change by acquisition, and the acquisition links between publishers. The findings confirm that the international market of journal publishing is essentially dominated by a few publishers.     

The true costs of scholarly journal publishing

There has been much debate recently about whether publishers' prices are too high, and what publishing a journal article really costs. Publication of the article in a journal is only one part of the cost of research communication; first of all there are the costs of research and writing, then the costs of peer review, editing and publication, and finally the costs of acquisition by the library, management, storage, reading by the end user and long‐term preservation. Several studies have been conducted of these different costs; the results are summarized and the potential impact, both on costs and on sources of funds, of moving to an alternative, ‘author‐funded’ open access model is considered.     

Critical issues in the development of STM journal publishing

Access to generations of scientific literature has never been more widespread. The advent of electronic publishing has improved the spread and speed of access while at the same time reducing unit costs. The current ‘open access’ debate raises interesting questions about the future of publishing and archiving. The declining growth of author‐pays titles, however, suggests that innovations that are sustainable long term and do not threaten the quality and integrity of scholarship are likely to be within the framework of the established model.     

从付费方式的视角审视学术期刊开放存取出版模式

开放存取(OA)运动历经10余年的发展,耗费巨大却成效甚微,日益背离其产生的初衷,需要相关各界反思。将信息数量、质量与传播作为学术期刊出版付费方式的评价要素,比较分析作者、读者、出版者付费方式的利弊后发现:以作者付费为基础的OA出版模式致使学术出版的研究成果质量难以得到保障;促使学术成果出版呈现出虚假的繁荣局面,造成社会公共资源的巨大浪费;太过理想化的自由、共享理念缺乏平衡作者、出版者和读者各方利益的基础和机制。     

论科技学术期刊出版的数字化媒体化转型

科技学术期刊的数字化媒体化转型是必然的发展方向。学术期刊数字出版的发展途径有2种:原生数字期刊和传统期刊的数字化媒体化转型。我们认为后者更能发挥传统期刊内容的优势,将成为学术期刊数字出版的主力军。分析了学术期刊数字化媒体化转型的特征和必然性,并以中国知网数字出版为例,介绍优先数字出版、独家出版等数字化、媒体化转型的途径与方法。     

An international comparison of journal publishing and citing behaviours

The relationship between researchers’ publishing and citing behaviours has received little examination despite its potential importance in scholarly communication, particularly at an international level. To remedy this we studied documents and their references indexed in Thomson Reuters's Web of Science (WoS) in the period 2000–2009 to compare journal publishing behaviours against journal citing behaviours across the world. The results reveal that most publications in, and citations to, all five quality based strata of journals examined come from scientifically and economically advanced countries. Nevertheless, in proportion to their total number of citations given to WoS journals, it seems that less developed countries cite high-quality journals at the same rate as developed countries and so the poorer publishing of less developed countries does not seem to be due to a lack of access to top journals. Moreover, examining the publishing and citing trends of countries revealed a decreasing rate of high-income and Scientifically Advanced Countries (SACs) publications in, and citations to, all quality ranges of journals in comparison to the increasing rate of publications and citations of other groups. Finally, research cooperation between developed and less developed countries seems to positively influence the publishing behaviour of the latter as their publications co-authored with developed countries were published more often in top journals.