A tipping point for publishing reform?

Journal of Electronic Publishing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Willinsky, John ^a   Wolfson, Larry ^a  

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1. Martha Kyrillidou, "Spending More for Less" (Washington: Association of Research Libraries, June 1999), http://www.arl.org/newsltr/204/spending.html ARL Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-1999, http://www.arl.org/
2. Kaylyn Hipps, "Update on Scholarly Publisher Profits" (Washington: Association of Research Libraries, December 1999), http://www.arl.org/newsltr/207/pubprofits.html See also: Reed Elsevier, http://www.reed-elsevier.com/
3. See the Association of Research Libraries, http://www.arl.org/ SPARC, http://www.arl.org/sparc/ BioOne, http://www.bioone.org/ and Create Change, http://www.createchange.org/
4. For the e-print story, see Paul Ginsparg's Los Alamos Archive, http://xxx.lanl.gov/ For a full range of e-journal features, see Gerry McKiernan, "EJI(sm): A Registry of Innovative E-Journal Features, Functionalities, and Content" (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Library, January 2001), http://www.public.iastate.edu/∼CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm as well as the Public Knowledge Project for prototypes, http://pkp.ubc.ca/
5. For the e-print story, see Paul Ginsparg's Los Alamos Archive, http://xxx.lanl.gov/ For a full range of e-journal features, see Gerry McKiernan, "EJI(sm): A Registry of Innovative E-Journal Features, Functionalities, and Content" (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Library, January 2001), http://www.public.iastate.edu/∼CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm as well as the Public Knowledge Project for prototypes, http://pkp.ubc.ca/
6. See the Public Library of Science, http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
7. On the economics of e-journals, we have found the following (1) Gene Glass, editor of the on-line Education Review and the Education Policy Analysis Archives, estimates his publishing costs as "zero, nada, no budget, no grad assistant, no secretary" (Tempe, Arizona: Email, February 2001); (2) Ginsparg estimates his arXiv.org's costs at roughly $9 a paper (Glanz, 2001) (3) the Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science budgets $2,070 per article; Janet H. Fisher, "Comparing Electronic Journals to Print Journals: Are there Savings?" in Technology and Scholarly Communication: The Institutional Context, ed. By Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 95-101; and (4) King and Tenopir put the cost of electronic publishing is $368 per page or about $175,000 per year (per journal); Donald W. King and Carol Tenopir, "Economic Cost Models of Scientific Scholarly Journals" (Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences Center for Information Studies, September 1998), http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/icsu/index.html and (5) the Electronic Publishing Committee at Cornell University found that it would cost $2,700,000 to establish an electronic publishing program; Knoxville, Electronic Publishing Electronic Steering Committee, "Electronic Publishing Steering Committee Report on Electronic Publishing" (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, December 2000), http://www.library.cornell.edu/ulib/pubs/EPSCFinalReport1998.htm
8. On the economics of e-journals, we have found the following (1) Gene Glass, editor of the on-line Education Review and the Education Policy Analysis Archives, estimates his publishing costs as "zero, nada, no budget, no grad assistant, no secretary" (Tempe, Arizona: Email, February 2001); (2) Ginsparg estimates his arXiv.org's costs at roughly $9 a paper (Glanz, 2001) (3) the Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science budgets $2,070 per article; Janet H. Fisher, "Comparing Electronic Journals to Print Journals: Are there Savings?" in Technology and Scholarly Communication: The Institutional Context, ed. By Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 95-101; and (4) King and Tenopir put the cost of electronic publishing is $368 per page or about $175,000 per year (per journal); Donald W. King and Carol Tenopir, "Economic Cost Models of Scientific Scholarly Journals" (Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences Center for Information Studies, September 1998), http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/icsu/index.html and (5) the Electronic Publishing Committee at Cornell University found that it would cost $2,700,000 to establish an electronic publishing program; Knoxville, Electronic Publishing Electronic Steering Committee, "Electronic Publishing Steering Committee Report on Electronic Publishing" (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, December 2000), http://www.library.cornell.edu/ulib/pubs/EPSCFinalReport1998.htm
9. On the economics of e-journals, we have found the following (1) Gene Glass, editor of the on-line Education Review and the Education Policy Analysis Archives, estimates his publishing costs as "zero, nada, no budget, no grad assistant, no secretary" (Tempe, Arizona: Email, February 2001); (2) Ginsparg estimates his arXiv.org's costs at roughly $9 a paper (Glanz, 2001) (3) the Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science budgets $2,070 per article; Janet H. Fisher, "Comparing Electronic Journals to Print Journals: Are there Savings?" in Technology and Scholarly Communication: The Institutional Context, ed. By Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 95-101; and (4) King and Tenopir put the cost of electronic publishing is $368 per page or about $175,000 per year (per journal); Donald W. King and Carol Tenopir, "Economic Cost Models of Scientific Scholarly Journals" (Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences Center for Information Studies, September 1998), http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/icsu/index.html and (5) the Electronic Publishing Committee at Cornell University found that it would cost $2,700,000 to establish an electronic publishing program; Knoxville, Electronic Publishing Electronic Steering Committee, "Electronic Publishing Steering Committee Report on Electronic Publishing" (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, December 2000), http://www.library.cornell.edu/ulib/pubs/EPSCFinalReport1998.htm
10. On the economics of e-journals, we have found the following (1) Gene Glass, editor of the on-line Education Review and the Education Policy Analysis Archives, estimates his publishing costs as "zero, nada, no budget, no grad assistant, no secretary" (Tempe, Arizona: Email, February 2001); (2) Ginsparg estimates his arXiv.org's costs at roughly $9 a paper (Glanz, 2001) (3) the Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science budgets $2,070 per article; Janet H. Fisher, "Comparing Electronic Journals to Print Journals: Are there Savings?" in Technology and Scholarly Communication: The Institutional Context, ed. By Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 95-101; and (4) King and Tenopir put the cost of electronic publishing is $368 per page or about $175,000 per year (per journal); Donald W. King and Carol Tenopir, "Economic Cost Models of Scientific Scholarly Journals" (Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences Center for Information Studies, September 1998), http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/icsu/index.html and (5) the Electronic Publishing Committee at Cornell University found that it would cost $2,700,000 to establish an electronic publishing program; Knoxville, Electronic Publishing Electronic Steering Committee, "Electronic Publishing Steering Committee Report on Electronic Publishing" (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, December 2000), http://www.library.cornell.edu/ulib/pubs/EPSCFinalReport1998.htm
11. On the economics of e-journals, we have found the following (1) Gene Glass, editor of the on-line Education Review and the Education Policy Analysis Archives, estimates his publishing costs as "zero, nada, no budget, no grad assistant, no secretary" (Tempe, Arizona: Email, February 2001); (2) Ginsparg estimates his arXiv.org's costs at roughly $9 a paper (Glanz, 2001) (3) the Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science budgets $2,070 per article; Janet H. Fisher, "Comparing Electronic Journals to Print Journals: Are there Savings?" in Technology and Scholarly Communication: The Institutional Context, ed. By Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 95-101; and (4) King and Tenopir put the cost of electronic publishing is $368 per page or about $175,000 per year (per journal); Donald W. King and Carol Tenopir, "Economic Cost Models of Scientific Scholarly Journals" (Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences Center for Information Studies, September 1998), http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/icsu/index.html and (5) the Electronic Publishing Committee at Cornell University found that it would cost $2,700,000 to establish an electronic publishing program; Knoxville, Electronic Publishing Electronic Steering Committee, "Electronic Publishing Steering Committee Report on Electronic Publishing" (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, December 2000), http://www.library.cornell.edu/ulib/pubs/EPSCFinalReport1998.htm
12. A recent study found that among a sample of social sciences and humanities scholars, some 85 percent of survey respondents agreed that "publishing in non-electronic outlets is more credible than publishing in electronic outlets"; see Raymond Siemens et al., "The Credibility of Electronic Publishing: A Report to the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada" (Nanaimo, BC: Unpublished paper, 2001), http://web.mala.bc.ca/hssfc/Final/Credibility.htm
13. James Testa, "The ISI Database: The Journal Selection Process" (Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information, March 1998), http://cs.nju.edu.cn/∼gchen/isi/help/HowToSelectJournals.html
14. Carolyn Larson and Linda Arret, "Descriptive Resource Needs from the Reference Perspective" (Washington: Library of Congress, January 2001), http://www.unicamp.br/bc/arret_paper.html
15. Anthony Cavanaugh, "A Comparison of the Retrieval Performance of Multi-disciplinary Table-of-contents Data Bases with Conventional Specialized Data Bases," Australian Academic & Research Libraries 28, (2, 1997). See also Albert J. LaRose, "Inclusiveness of Indexes and Abstracts of Interest to Students of Communication," RQ (Fall 1989): 29-35; J. Holt and KA Schmidt, "Carl-Uncover or Faxon-Finder: A Comparison of Articles and Journals in Carl-Uncover and Faxon-Finder," Library Resources & Technical Services 39,. (3, 1995): 221-228.
16. Anthony Cavanaugh, "A Comparison of the Retrieval Performance of Multi-disciplinary Table-of-contents Data Bases with Conventional Specialized Data Bases," Australian Academic & Research Libraries 28, (2, 1997). See also Albert J. LaRose, "Inclusiveness of Indexes and Abstracts of Interest to Students of Communication," RQ (Fall 1989): 29-35; J. Holt and KA Schmidt, "Carl-Uncover or Faxon-Finder: A Comparison of Articles and Journals in Carl-Uncover and Faxon-Finder," Library Resources & Technical Services 39,. (3, 1995): 221-228.
17. Anthony Cavanaugh, "A Comparison of the Retrieval Performance of Multi-disciplinary Table-of-contents Data Bases with Conventional Specialized Data Bases," Australian Academic & Research Libraries 28, (2, 1997). See also Albert J. LaRose, "Inclusiveness of Indexes and Abstracts of Interest to Students of Communication," RQ (Fall 1989): 29-35; J. Holt and KA Schmidt, "Carl-Uncover or Faxon-Finder: A Comparison of Articles and Journals in Carl-Uncover and Faxon-Finder," Library Resources & Technical Services 39,. (3, 1995): 221-228.
18. Lisa Pillow, "Scholarly African American Studies Journals: An Evaluation of Electronic Indexing Service Coverage," Serials Review 25, (4, 1999): 21-28.
19. Kristin H. Gerhard, Trudi E. Jacobsen, and Susan G. Williamson, "Indexing Inadequacy and Interdisciplinary Journals: The Case of Women's Studies," College and Research Libraries 54, (March 1993): 125-135. See also, Linda A. Krikos, "Women's Studies Periodical Indexes: An In-depth Comparison," Serials Review, (Summer 1994): 64-75.
20. Kristin H. Gerhard, Trudi E. Jacobsen, and Susan G. Williamson, "Indexing Inadequacy and Interdisciplinary Journals: The Case of Women's Studies," College and Research Libraries 54, (March 1993): 125-135. See also, Linda A. Krikos, "Women's Studies Periodical Indexes: An In-depth Comparison," Serials Review, (Summer 1994): 64-75.
21. M. Suzanne Brown, Jana S. Edwards, and Lasee-Willemssen, "A New Comparison of the Current Index to Journals in Education and the Education Index: A Deep Analysis of Indexing," The Journal of Academic Librarianship 25, (3, 1999): 216.
22. Cited by Brown, Edwards, and Lasee-Willemssen, "A New Comparison": 218.
23. th of 112 member libraries with 112,000 volumes. The average holdings for all members was 86,221 volumes; ARL, "Association of Research Librarians Statistics: Data Tables for Academic Institutions" (Washington: Association of Research Libraries, Sept 2000), http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/newarl/listyear.html
24. The Scientist, "Most Cited Journals, 1994 and 1989," 10, (17,1996): 13.
25. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (Dublin: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, December 2000), http://dublincore.org/ Digital Library Foundation, "Harvesting Research Metadata. Aims, Objectives, Planning Process: Research Metadata Harvest Project. Draft Request to the Mellon Foundation for Funds to Support a Planning Process, April 2000" (Boston, Harvard University and DLF, September 2000), http://www.clir.org/diglib/architectures/lycospub.htm Library of Congress, "Z39.50: Gateway to Library of Catalogs" (Washington: Library of Congress, September 2001), http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#about See Open Archives Initiative, http://www.openarchives.org/
26. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (Dublin: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, December 2000), http://dublincore.org/ Digital Library Foundation, "Harvesting Research Metadata. Aims, Objectives, Planning Process: Research Metadata Harvest Project. Draft Request to the Mellon Foundation for Funds to Support a Planning Process, April 2000" (Boston, Harvard University and DLF, September 2000), http://www.clir.org/diglib/architectures/lycospub.htm Library of Congress, "Z39.50: Gateway to Library of Catalogs" (Washington: Library of Congress, September 2001), http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#about See Open Archives Initiative, http://www.openarchives.org/
27. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (Dublin: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, December 2000), http://dublincore.org/ Digital Library Foundation, "Harvesting Research Metadata. Aims, Objectives, Planning Process: Research Metadata Harvest Project. Draft Request to the Mellon Foundation for Funds to Support a Planning Process, April 2000" (Boston, Harvard University and DLF, September 2000), http://www.clir.org/diglib/architectures/lycospub.htm Library of Congress, "Z39.50: Gateway to Library of Catalogs" (Washington: Library of Congress, September 2001), http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#about See Open Archives Initiative, http://www.openarchives.org/
28. Robert D Cameron, "A Universal Citation Database as a Catalyst in Scholarly Communication," First Monday (1997), http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_4/cameron/index.html
29. NEC ResarchIndex (Princeton: NEC Research Institute, May 2000), http://researchindex.com/ Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, and Kurt Bollacker, "Digital Libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing," IEEE Computer 32 (1999): 67-71.
30. NEC ResarchIndex (Princeton: NEC Research Institute, May 2000), http://researchindex.com/ Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, and Kurt Bollacker, "Digital Libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing," IEEE Computer 32 (1999): 67-71.
31. For a discussion of the pivotal position of the library in this digital revolution in scholarly publishing, see John Willinsky "Proposing a Knowledge Exchange Model for scholarly publishing," Current Issues in Education (3, No. 6, 2000), http://cie.ed.asu.edu/volume3/number6/
32. Andrea Foster, "House of Representatives Seeks to Close Free Bibliographic Database," Chronicle of Higher Education, July 2, 2001 http://chronicle.com/free/2001/07/2001070202t.htm
33. The other large open-access archive, which we do not discuss in this article but is certainly worth noting is the Astrophysics Data System (ADS), which "is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an Abstract Service, which includes four sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics/planetary sciences/solar physics, containing 640,373 abstracts; 2) instrumentation, containing 598,523 abstracts; 3) physics and geophysics, containing 949,953 abstracts; and 4) Los Alamos preprint server, containing 3,575 abstracts. Each dataset can be searched by author, object name (astronomy only), title, or abstract text words" (http://adswww.harvard.edu/).
34. For a full discussion of these issues, see John Willinsky, If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research (New York: Routledge, 2000).