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Journal of Transport and Land Use

Journal of Transport and Land Use. Presented at Current & Future Publishing Practices December 2, 2010, Anderson Library. David Levinson. What is your journal's greatest challenge?. $. What is your journal's second greatest challenge?. Good content.

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Journal of Transport and Land Use

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  1. Journal of Transport and Land Use • Presented at Current & Future Publishing Practices • December 2, 2010, Anderson Library David Levinson

  2. What is your journal's greatest challenge? • $

  3. What is your journal's second greatest challenge? Good content

  4. What rights do you give your authors? (e.g. ability to create derivative works, post or distribute pre/post-print, archive in the University Digital Conservatory or a subject repository) • All contents licensed underCreative Commons by-nc 3.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

  5. At what point after publication is most of your journal's content made available free of charge to the public? • Immediately

  6. How important are library subscriptions to your journal's revenue flow? • It’s free

  7. What predictions can you forecast about future publishing practices of your journal? • We want JTLU to be both • free to submit and • free to read, • but the latter is more important. If the publishing culture moves toward submission or publication charges, we can go in that direction, but presently other journals in our field are free to submit, so no incentive to pay for submission.

  8. JTLU is Gold • "Green OA" is provided by authors publishing in any journal and then self-archiving their postprints in their institutional repository or on some other OA website.Green OA journal publishers endorse immediate OA self-archiving by their authors. • "Gold OA" is provided by authors publishing in an open access journal that provides immediate OA to all of its articles on the publisher's website. Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_(publishing)

  9. Acceptance • In 3 years (Fall 2007-Fall 2010) • 231 Submissions • 47 published, 18 in press, 28 under review or revision • Acceptance Rate (47+18)/(231-28) = 32% • This includes things like editorials and book reviews, article rate is lower.

  10. Analytics • 1 year (12/1/2009 - 12/1/2010)- 11,759 visits from 7,714 visitors

  11. Citations (from Google Scholar) • h-index • Citations for “journal of transport and land use'' : 138 • Cited Publications: 48 • H-Index: 5 (5 articles cited 5 or more times in < 3 years) • Citation rate = 2.875 cites per article

  12. Indexing • Google Scholar • RePEc • Scopus (in process) • ISI (applied) • EBSCO Host - violates terms of license

  13. New peer-reviewed conference (WSTLUR) will publish all accepted articles in JTLU.

  14. http://jtlu.org

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