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Scientific publishing today Bo-Christer Björk. Nordic Doctoral Seminar 2006. Effects of Internet. A lot of the stuff is electronic Also revenue models are changing. Open Access. Can be financed in many ways Open Source like Author payments Funders pay Advertising. Why benchmarking.
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Scientific publishing today Bo-Christer Björk Nordic Doctoral Seminar 2006 Björk 2006
Effects of Internet • A lot of the stuff is electronic • Also revenue models are changing Björk 2006
Open Access • Can be financed in many ways • Open Source like • Author payments • Funders pay • Advertising Björk 2006
Why benchmarking • Journals can be seen as service providers to authors • Often authors base their decision where to submit on very incomplete information Björk 2006
Infrastructure Readership Prestige Performance ”Net value of submission” Björk 2006
Acceptance rates • ITcon 0,55 • CME 0,51 • JCCE 0,47 • ALPSP journals 0,42 • DOAJ 0,64 • DOAJ Excluding BiomedCentral and ISP journals 0,55 Björk 2006
Futher work • The method is currently being applied to e-commerce journals • Should be tested for areas where there are open access alternatives (biomedicine?) Björk 2006
Conference publishing • Most bigger conferences are run using electronic submission and reviewing systems • Some home made • Some Open Source • Some commercial Björk 2006
Conference • Some conferences leave the material open access • Some do CD-ROM:s • Some have external publishers Björk 2006
Cases • CIB W78 (OA) • ECPPM • COMBINING FORCES - Advancing Facilities Management and Construction through Innovation June 13-16, 2005 Helsinki Björk 2006
REFERENCES Björk, Bo-Christer, Turk, Ziga, Holmström, Jonas. Benchmarking scientificjournals from the submitting author’s viewpoint.Accepted for Publication, Learned Publishing, Vol 19 No. 2, April 2006 Björk, Bo-Christer, Turk, Ziga, Holmström, Jonas. The Scholarly Journal Re-engineered: A Case Study of an Open Access Journal in Construction IT, Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction, ITcon, Vol. 10, 2005, pp.349-371,http://www.itcon.org/ Kaufman-Wills Group, The facts about Open Access, ALPSP, 2005 Björk 2006