The Future of Scholarly Publication.ppt

The Future of Scholarly Publication Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk Contents Scholarly Communications debate Model for Science, Technology and Medicine What is the model for Arts and Humanities? E-Books UCL’s IPR Management Open Access to research theses Conclusions? Science, Technology and Medicine driven by Serials Crisis No library can ever purchase all the materials it needs LISU found that the increase in median journal prices for 12 scholarly journal publishers from 2000-2004 varied from 27 % (Cambridge University Press) to 94% (Sage) Over the same period the inflation rate was, on average 2.5% Key Perspectives, Guide to Scholarly Publishing at www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/i)%20Guide%20on%20Scholarly%20Publishing%20Trends%20FINAL.doc Access to the literature – two UK case studies What is the model for Arts and Humanities? Many of the issues present in the STM not relevant? Mandates/Conditions of Grant from external funders? Certainly a growing feature for A+H research, but not universal Journals? Journals not the unit of scholarly output, but the monograph Subscriptions? Not a major issue for these subject areas but libraries have to pay the STM serials invoice first before buying anything else So the issue is… Scholarly Communications debate in Arts and Humanities Not a crisis, but a challenge A challenge to: Disseminate more widely Use modern technology more effectively Gain greater visibility for Arts and Humanities outputs as a result E-Books Digital Core Readings Service at UCL a major development to support E-Learning Core readings on reading lists are digitised and made available via the VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/readings.shtml Very, very popular with students 24x7 access to key texts Current E-Book developments SuperBook project at UCL Collaboration between UCL Library Services and UCL’s School of Library Archive and Informa