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AAS update 2010

AAS update 2010. Changes in product line Digital author charges Article numbering Reduction of proprietary period. Changes in 2011 products. No print BAAS BAAS will contain meeting abstracts and obituaries

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AAS update 2010

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  1. AAS update 2010 • Changes in product line • Digital author charges • Article numbering • Reduction of proprietary period PAM Astro roundtable 2010

  2. Changes in 2011 products • No print BAAS • BAAS will contain meeting abstracts and obituaries • Other Society communications that are deemed to be preservation-worthy can be “promoted” to the BAAS • e.g. “important” newsletter pieces • We’re still in discussions, but at this point we think the online BAAS will be open access • Those of you who subscribe to the BAAS will get a notification about the termination of the print edition PAM Astro roundtable 2010

  3. Changes in 2011 products, p.2 • Just kidding, there aren’t any other changes • AJ and ApJ choices remain the same • We may differentiate the pricing for the ApJL print options (36x, 1x, 0x) to make it “easier” for the subs agents to get your orders correct… • +$0, +$5, -$5 or something, in the hope that they notice the products are different by the prices (so they don’t have to actually read and comprehend the description) • I still don’t know when we will “drop” the print • AER could have “voluntary” subscriptions in 2012 • I don’t know exactly what that will mean PAM Astro roundtable 2010

  4. Digital author charges • Page charges are no longer sufficient • We must think about articles and their components in a “fully digital” mindset • We need to start recovering costs for a growing amount of digital-only content • For which there are no pages to base charges on • I analyzed data from 2004-2009 XML from AJ and ApJ, slightly more than 20,000 articles • Survey says: Quantized article components, rather than whole articles, are better units PAM Astro roundtable 2010

  5. Digital author charges, p.2 • Components (or units, or quanta) are: • blobs of words, figures, tables, MRTs, figure sets, multimedia etc. • We will count semantic elements, not physical files (size does not matter) • Unit price set to achieve total income in aggregate, as well as per-article charge parity • Per quantum charge will be $40 in 2011 • I’ll write a piece for the AAS Newsletter PAM Astro roundtable 2010

  6. Article numbering • We will follow A&A’s lead and introduce sequentially numbered articles in 2011 • Continuous pagination of issues will be D/C • Another step toward being “fully digital” • Citation formats will be basically the same • Article sequence number replaces page number • Each article will be paginated 1-N PAM Astro roundtable 2010

  7. Reduction of proprietary period • Articles in AAS journals are currently under access control for 24 months from publication • Beginning in 2011, this period will be reduced to 12 months • We trust this will not cause massive cancellations, but that is up to our customers • We were propelled to this by a number of “open government” and “public access” initiatives • It is inevitable, so we thought we’d just do it PAM Astro roundtable 2010

  8. Chris.Biemesderfer@aas.org PAM Astro roundtable 2010

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