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WORKSHOP ON SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 1 June 2004 Columbia University

WORKSHOP ON SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 1 June 2004 Columbia University. James G. Neal Remarks During Open Session. SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION KEY ISSUES. Imbalance in information price relative to value and source costs. Time lag between authorship, peer review, publication, and dissemination.

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WORKSHOP ON SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 1 June 2004 Columbia University

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  1. WORKSHOP ON SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING1 June 2004Columbia University James G. Neal Remarks During Open Session

  2. SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION KEY ISSUES • Imbalance in information price relative to value and source costs. • Time lag between authorship, peer review, publication, and dissemination. • Imbalance in information authorship, ownership, and proprietary rights. • Unrecognized as public policy issue.

  3. SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION CONCERNS • Choking on the Proliferation • Location of Quality Marking • Corporate Economy Overtakes Guild Economy • Dysfunctional Market • Intellectual Property Ownership • Darwinian/Capitalistic/Socialist Solutions • New Models of Digital Scholarship

  4. ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY PUBLISHINGSOME MODELS • Commercial Publishing Model • Academic Server Model • Prestigious Publishing Model • University Publishing Cooperative • Public Domain Model • Government Server Model

  5. ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY PUBLISHINGSOME MODELS • Digital Library Model • Electronic Book Model • Electronic Collection Model • Retrospective Model • Preprint Server Model • Peer Review Lite Model

  6. NORMS OF SCHOLARLY WORKAT THE UNIVERSITY • Open and Free Exchange of Ideas • Publication in Scholarly and Scientific Journals • Meritocracy • Organized Skepticism • Common Ownership of Goods

  7. ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY PUBLISHINGCRONIN OBSERVATIONS • Discipline Diversity • Importance of Trust • Importance of Credibility • Velocity of Communication • Expanded Readership

  8. ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY PUBLISHINGCRONIN OBSERVATIONS • New Economics • Vertical Integration • New Modes of Discourse • Democratization

  9. SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS • Information Generation and Creation • Authoring • Informal Peer Communication • Editorial and Validation • Ownership, Privacy, and Security • Distribution • Acquisition and Access

  10. SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS • Storage • Preservation and Archiving • Information Management • Location and Delivery • Recognition • Diffusion • Utilization of Information

  11. HIGHER EDUCATIONCORE INTERESTS • Competitive Market • Easy Distribution and Reuse • Innovation Applications of Technology • Quality Assurance • Permanent Archiving

  12. SPARC MESSAGES • Barrier-Free Access to Research • Risks of Industry Consolidation • Protect/Expand Author Rights • Community Control of Scholarly Communication • Incubation of Alternative Channels • Hope/Power/Action through Collaboration

  13. Publishing Partnerships Create Change Leading Edge Scientific Communities Declaring Independence Gaining Independence Consulting Group/ Legal Services Institutional Repository Open Access Next Step SPARC PROGRAMS

  14. Open Virtual Electronic Library • Shared Content, Tools and Services • Collaboration Among Stakeholders • Extensible Architecture • Test Bed for Assessment and Innovation • New Digital Content Rights

  15. FUTURE OF PUBLISHINGRESEARCH COMMUNITY STRATEGIES • Market Conforming • Market Distorting • System Transforming • System Busting

  16. HAVE WE MADE A DIFFERENCE? • Have publication prices gone down? Why? • Are research results circulating more quickly? How? • Are institutions or individuals asserting some control over their intellectual property? • Has academic publisher consolidation been reduced? • Have SPARC publishing partnerships been more additive than competitive? • Are researchers/academic administrators talking more about scholarly publishing issues?

  17. HAVE WE MADE A DIFFERENCE? • Is open access truly an alternative to publisher-based scholarly publishing? • In the absence of a coordinated plan for archiving of digital publications, will open access models survive? • Can peer-review and open access models come together? • Are editorial boards willing and able to break away from commercial publishers? • Will scholarly communication be embraced as an important public policy issue? • Will fair use survive the legislative battles?

  18. SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING2028 • Chaos Breeds Life • Information Anarchy • Information Fascism • Information Utopia • Information Theology

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