The Transition from Traditional to Internet-Based Publishing

Dr. ZHOU,HuaibeiScientific Research Publishing

November 2015

Contents

• Status of Academic Publishing• Challenges to the traditional Publishers• New Biz Model and internet-Based Tech• OA and Open Access Library• IF and Article/Author Level Metrics• Summary

Traditional Academic Publishing

• High Cost for Printing, Mailing and Storage ==》 Low Acceptance Rate due to the Limited Budget

• Slow Communication due to Air、 Land、 Sea Shipping

• Limited Coverage Due to Cost and Biz Model

Traditional Academic Publishing (2)

• Academic articles are stored in databases developed by a few big publishers

• University libraries have to buy these databases

• The Library Budget is limited Less Exposure

Academic Publishing in China

• 5000 Academic Journals, 3000+ Publishers

• Paper-format Based and Financially Difficult

• Low Visibility and Poor Efficiency

How Many Times an Academic Article will be read in a life time?

• Traditional publishing: 7 times on average per article

• Open Access Model: 1000 times per year per article

• More audiences, high impact

Open Access Model

• Pay by Authors (usually funded)• Free to Readers• Rapid Peer-review• Paper Judged by Every Reader (quality control)

Open Access Publishing

• Started about 12 years ago

• New Business Model and Internet Based

• It is new but very promising

Governments Embrace OA Model

Traditional Publishing needs to be CHANGED

• The Internet changed the world• Search Engine indexes everything• Free access to contents• Traditional Journals are expensive and hard to maintain• Governments want the change, scientists want the change

Indexing, Impact Factors?

• Traditional IF: Average of many articles and over a long period of time Make no sense

• Article Level: Citations of an article is better than IF of a journal

• Google Scholar provides better citation counts

Google-based Impact Factor

H-index• Definition: H articles with more than H

citations • Author Level: H index, ISI does not have• Journal Level: H index better than ISI IF• More reasonable and transparent

Example of H-index

How Many Academic Journal Publishers Do We Need?

?

OA, We started 10 years ago…

Case Studies

OA, We started 10 years ago…

Case Studies

OA, We started 10 years ago…

Case Studies

How Many Databases Do We Need for All University Libraries

?

One Stop Shopping for Scholars

www.oalib.com

A Digital Library for ALL

• Search Engine - Find the papers you want from the OA journal publishers all over the world

• Publish a paper in OALib Journal (Gold OA)• Disciplinary Repositories - Archive (Green OA)• Index - A Journal/Paper database

Search Engine

Mega Journal: OALib Journal

Will All the Existed Traditional and OA Publishers Die ?

• Articles will be published by authors over the Social Network Based on: Facebook, Linkedin, Weibo and Weixin, etc.

• All posted articles or short paragraph may have DOIs, be stored and cited by other scholars

• Powerful Search Engine and Social Network will help authors to publish and find an article

The Social Network Based Publishing

• Social Network Based: Facebook, Linkedin, Weibo and Weixin, etc.

• Web Based Publishing will be transformed to the Social Network based

• It will be easy for scholars to publish and find the right articles

Summary

• The Traditional Publishing is Over• The Traditional Web Based Publishing is

Ongoing• The Social Network Based Publishing is

Booming• Author or Article Based Metrics is Better• OA Library will Provide a Better Platform for

Scholars

Thank You

Dr. Zhou, Huaibei

Scientific Research Publishingbzhou@scirp.org