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What universities want from publishing

Explore what universities seek from publishing, balancing needs of producers, purchasers, and consumers. Differences in wants highlight diverse perceptions on publishing's purpose. Discover open-access strengths in delivering desired impact, affordability, and quality.

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What universities want from publishing

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  1. What universities want from publishing Stephen Pinfield University of Nottingham

  2. do What universities want from publishing ?

  3. The simple answer • Universities: • do research • do teaching • Want publishing to support and further their research and teaching

  4. What universities want from publishing

  5. “Universities”: complex organisations • Devolved structure • Consultative (democratic?) processes • Corporate strategy and local reality • Suspicion of the centre • Discipline differences • Individual / research group oriented • ‘Person culture’

  6. Different universities • UK: • Russell Group • Other ‘old’ universities • New universities • USA: • Ivy League • etc.

  7. What universities want from publishing

  8. “Want”? • Desire, wish for • instinctive wants • informed wants • Need, ought to have Academics: ‘innovative in their ideas, conservative in their work practices’

  9. What universities want from publishing

  10. “Publishing”? • Wide range of possibilities: • from: formal publication in peer-reviewed journal • to: informal dissemination • Different factors • discipline differences • paper - electronic • etc.

  11. So… • Differences within and between universities mean different ‘wants’ in relation to publishing • Different ‘wants’ reflect different levels of understanding on what is desirable and/or possible • There are different ideas of what ‘publishing’ is and what it is for

  12. Universities and publishing Universities as: • Producers • Purchasers • Consumers

  13. Producers: context • ‘Publish or perish’ • ‘Get cited or get out’ • ‘The RAE is what counts’ (in the UK)

  14. Producers • Rapid dissemination • Wide dissemination • Visibility • Impact • Peer endorsement • No risks • IPR-friendly policies • Freedom to self-archive • Freedom to re-use • Document preparation?

  15. Purchasers • Affordability • Flexibility • in pricing • in licences • Transparency • Integratability • Wide access • Perpetual access • Usage statistics

  16. Consumers • Quality • Quality markers / branding • Ease of access • desk-top • on / off-campus • wide range of publishers • easy authentication • current / archive • Navigability • Post-publication indicators • Value added features?

  17. Achieving a balance • Tensions • e.g. rapid dissemination v. quality • Subscription-based status-quo • strong on quality, branding, document preparation etc. • at the expense of access, impact, affordability etc. • Open-access: publishing, self-archiving

  18. Open access: strengths Producers Rapid dissemination Wide dissemination Visibility Impact Peer endorsement No risks IPR-friendly policies Freedom to self-archive Freedom to re-use Document preparation? • Purchasers • Affordability • Flexibility • in pricing • in licences • Transparency • Integratability • Wide access • Perpetual access • Usage statistics • Consumers • Quality • Quality markers / branding • Ease of access • desk-top • on/off-campus • wide range of publishers • easy authentication • current / archive • Navigability • Post-publication indicators • Value added features?              

  19. Do universities want open access? • Universities want: • Impact • Affordability • Quality • Access • Can open access deliver?

  20. Time for change “Things have to change with the times - the “established” system isn’t perfect and change might be a good thing.” Anonymous respondent to the JISC/OSI Journal Authors Survey, 2004

  21. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk Stephen.Pinfield@Nottingham.ac.uk

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