Self-archiving Its an author thing.ppt

Self-archiving: It’s an author thing Key Perspectives Ltd The UK context There are currently 38 institutional archives in the UK The amount of peer-reviewed research archived there is very small How many authors are self-archiving at the moment? “I am quite ignorant about this topic.” “Time does not permit self-archiving ….No staff or other assistance to do that in our university, either.” “I publish a lot by accident … … I do joint research and often dont know until after the fact that my collaborators have put my name on a publication” “I wouldn’t have had reservations about open access if I weren’t an editor. There are benefits to the scientific community of societies making money.” arXiv In 2003, 116,723 physics articles were published in 421 journals arXiv receives 3,500 postings per month (i.e. 42,000 per annum): High energy physics: 800 per month (flat) Condensed matter: 800 per month (growing) Astrophysics: 600-7– per month (flat) Learned societies who publish physics research American Physical Society Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd Journals in the areas covered by arXiv APS: Physical Review D Physical review C Nuclear Physics IOPP: Classical Quantum Gravity Journal of High Energy Physics Journal of Physics G J. Cosmology Astroparticle Physics “How many subscriptions have you lost as a result of arXiv?” APS: “None” IOPP: “None” “How have subscriptions to the titles most affected been going over the last decade?” APS: “We have had an overall decline of an average of about 3% a year (less lately) across all our journals since the 1960s.” IOPP: “The general attrition slope has not changed.” “What do the download figures show?” APS: “Physical Review D and Physical Review C are a bit below the average for our other journals.” IOPP: “Download figures [for those journals] are not as high as average, because people are downloading from arXiv.” APS: “We dont consider it [arXiv] a threat. We expect to continue to have a symbiotic relationshi