The Joint Upstate Downstate New York Science Librarians meeting was held April 26, 2010 at METRO headquarters in Manhattan. The theme of the meeting was Trends in Sci-Tech Publishing. The upstate librarians attended via web conferencing.
The first speaker was Elizabeth Perill of Elsevier. She discussed:
Quick historic introduction of Elsevier
STM publishing – an overview
Publishing cycle and key Investments
Innovation
How Investments & Innovations result in meeting the key needs
Some of the points she made were:
• 26% of journal articles published globally are from Elsevier
• Elsevier has 9 million article published with 300,000 added every year
• It publishes 18 new journals each year
• The electronic submission of journals is twice as fast as before
• Some new innovations include:
o Inline Multimedia Playback
o The first generation of smart applications to enhance discoverability
She mentioned SciVal Spotlight which provides a complete picture of an institution’s research strength and SciVal funding which allows universities to better compete for funding and increase grant income.
She cited statistics saying that:
• There has been significant increases in research productivity since 1999
• Elsevier continues to provide improvement in values for money
• There has been dramatic increases in access levels since 1999
The positive trajectory in STM publishing since the E-Revolution began in 1999 should continue.
Elsevier publications have been archived in the Royal Library of the Netherlands, Portico, and Clockss.
She concluded by saying:
“Innovation is in our DNA and has resulted in new ways to present content, to find or deliver content”
The second speaker was Allan Barnett of the Institute of Physics Publishing. He stated:
IOP Currently publish 65 journals, over half with partnerships of other learned society publishers
It provides 14,000 peer reviewed articles per annum; Includes Turpion and AAS.
In 2009, over 15% of our journals with Impact Factor over 5, and 20% over 3.
Majority of our titles, offer free access to all new content for 30 days from online publication.
Physicsweb.org and Nanotechweb.org are two specialist portals that it provides.
Some of its innovations were being:
First STM publisher to provide all its content online; now with comprehensive journal archive;
First STM publisher to provide z39.50 compliance;
First STM publisher to offer forward citing;
It has 350,000 articles and over 550,000 preprint articles.
Performance Indicators 1995-2009
- Online full-text downloads, in excess of 8 million;
- Journals published grown x 2 times industry rate;
- Papers published grown at x 6 times industry rate;
- Citation performance grown at x 3 times industry rate;
- 25% increase in impact factor since 2000.
The third speaker was Kristen Fitzpatrick, the IEEE University Partnership Program Manager. Her talk was based on content, context and community.
Content:
She explained that IEEE publications covered all areas of technology including aerospace, information technology, semiconductors, circuits, biomedical engineering, computing, and wireless broadband. The society is publishing 5 new journals this year.
The collaborative content of IEEE Explore includes:
• IET Journals, Conferences and seminar digest
• More than 250,000 AIP/AVS documents from 5 top applied physics publications
• IBM Journal of Research and Development
• 400 + Wiley/IEEE books
She mentioned web sites including:
IEEE Smart Grid
Emerging Technologies Portal
IEEE TV
http://Tryengineering.org
Context
The new interface for IEEExplore was discussed. A useful feature is suggested search terms suggested by the user community.
IEEE has entered the realm of mobile computing which did not need to be a clone of the full site. They developed new imaginative apps around their core offerings.
The mobile services are available at http://m.ieeexplore.ieee.org
A question and answer period followed. The three publishers were sensitive to the budgetary problems of their customers. They were all willing to hear suggestions.
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