1 / 12

Open Access Publishing and Physical Review X

Open Access Publishing and Physical Review X. Ling Miao Associate Editor Physical Review X http://prx.aps.org American Physical Society. What Is Open Access Publishing?. Context. Publishers: Cost of making and maintaining journals.

tania
Download Presentation

Open Access Publishing and Physical Review X

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Open Access Publishing and Physical Review X Ling Miao Associate Editor Physical Review X http://prx.aps.org American Physical Society

  2. What Is Open Access Publishing? Context Publishers: Cost of making and maintaining journals • Professional Management of the peer-review process: Editorial • Professional composition: Style, format, technical readability • On-line hosting: IT infrastructure • Long-term preservation: Storage, maintenance, & upgrade Readers: Access • Should readers pay for the cost? • If readers don’t, who should?

  3. What Is Open Access Publishing? Traditional Model Open-access Models Paid (restricted) access Access Free access Who pays Libraries, individuals through subscriptions Authors, or their institutions, or organizations

  4. What Is Open Access Publishing? Different open-access publishing models • Hybrid (gold open-access) model: • Entire journals still subscribed by libraries • Individual articles made free to all readers for a fee • Fees used to reduce the subscription cost • Fully open-access model: • Entire journals free to read • An article-processing charge paid for each article APS operates: Hybrid + Full OA; + Green Open Access: allow free article posting on authors’ own websites

  5. APS’sPublic-Access Initiative

  6. The American Physical Society’s Open Access Journals PR • On-line publication: • Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators & Beams • Physical Review Special Topics: Phys. Education Res. NEW • Physical Review X: broad scope, highly selective

  7. http://physics.aps.org Free to Read

  8. Why Open Access? • Benefit to • Readers in general • Developing countries • Small educational or research institutions • Industrial research labs • Benefit to authors: • Broader, systematic distribution of their work • More control over financial resources for publication • Popular demand & political drive

  9. Is Open Access the Future of Publishing? My Personal Take • At the level of principle: YES, it should be! • In reality: Will it be???? A Revolution Required: Global-scale restructuring of allocation of financial resources for supporting scientific publications Challenges: • Scale of the change: global • Special-interest groups against the change • Human nature: sticking to a habit The future is also in your hands!

  10. Introducing PR PR High Profile Open Access Commercial Society NJP PRL Nature Physics Nature Materials Nature Photonics Nature Nanotechnology (high-quality) AIP Advances PLoS One (For acceptance: only technical correctness)

  11. Features PR • Open access • Broad scope: Welcome: cross-topic, cross-field, cross-discipline, applied research • Highly selective publication standards (20% acceptance) • Review process: Efficient, well-informed, effective • Publication format: Flexible length, on-line only • Content delivery • Rapid publication after acceptance • Enhanced visibility by modern, dynamic on-line presentation

  12. You Are The Future!!

More Related