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The Library perspective

The Library perspective. We’ll pay for your subscriptions AND put your articles out for free on the web Libraries as active partners in the scientific communication Thøger Kristensen Wiley-Blackwell seminar 4. June 2007. Who am I. Cand.scient.adm. (MA Public Administration)

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The Library perspective

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  1. The Library perspective We’ll pay for your subscriptions AND put your articles out for free on the web Libraries as active partners in the scientific communication Thøger Kristensen Wiley-Blackwell seminar 4. June 2007

  2. Who am I • Cand.scient.adm. (MA Public Administration) • Dir. Acquisitions & IT, Aalborg University Library, 1995-2006 • Library director, National Library of Education, 2006- • DEFF, Danish Electronic Research Library • Licensing & IT projects 1998-, • Chairman, Programme for Information Supply • Not a researcher – manager and administrator!

  3. The traditional library-publisher-author relation • Author writes article • Publisher organizes peer review and printing • Libraries pays subscription • Reader gets article from library • and writes a new article

  4. Traditional quality mechanism • Peer review rejects poor articles • Library buys best quality journals • Authors submit to the most prestigious journals that will publish the article

  5. Serials crisis in print era • Publishers and societies want profits • Price increases way above library budget increases • Libraries cancel subscriptions • Loss of dissemination of knowledge • Pressure for alternative publishing and informal knowledge dissemination

  6. e-journals challenge • Library bypass tendency • Heavy investment needs to shift publishing industry • Alternative publishing effective, easy and affordable

  7. Challenge turned to opportunity • The Big Deal • Pay 110%, get print, e-version and cross access • Multi-year, consortium deal • Users gain: Access to everything for everybody (almost) • Libraries gain: Access control • Publishers gain: Cash flow control

  8. Possible future e-opportunities • Easy, subsidized pay-pr-view, giving instant access to not-subscribed • Web2.0-features creating online virtual research communities • Integration with related info – authors, citations, institutions, societies, conferences …

  9. Pay-pr-view or not? • User unfriendly • Administratively expensive • Requires complex systems But…. • Better than nothing • The not so pleasant alternative?

  10. Knowledge dissemination • New offensive role for libraries • Based on library competences • Bibliographic databases, information organization, web, ICT • Libraries as research support staff • Need for professional web appearance • Need for research management info • Need for research documentation

  11. Researchers demands • Preprint immediately online • - Not forfeiting publication options • Easy online publication system • Flexible output options • Max visibility & dissemination • ”Somebody” takes care of design, preservation, documentation, management info …..

  12. Open Access • Green road to Open Access • publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it • Golden road to Open Access • Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists

  13. Libraries on the green road • Building institutional repositories and websites in order to disseminate, document and preserve documents • OA - Open Archive • Disseminate via standardized protocols between databases & search systems • OAI-PMH – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting • Publishers and journals still necessary to get peer review, merit and intnl research community

  14. The golden road on your own • Use research funding to pay author fee • Limited range of journals • You still have to use the green road • But you do gain max visibility!

  15. The end Questions, comments, objections, angriness, scolding, praise, pats on my back, clever remarks or merely interesting points that I missed….. Thøger Kristensen Overbibliotekar Email: thkr@dpu.dk Tuborgvej 164; Postbox 840 Privat: Blåkildevej 9 DK-2400 København NV 2630 Taastrup Telefon: (+45) 88 88 93 17 Telefon: (+45) 98 14 41 34 Telefax: (+45) 88 88 93 90 Mobil: (+45) 28 87 48 89 http://www.dpb.dpu.dk

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