The Future of Scholarly Publishing

Description

The formal scientific communication system is currently undergoing significant change. This is due to four developments: the digitisation of formal science communication; the economisation of academic publishing as profit drives many academic publishers and other providers of information; an increase in the self-observation of science by means of publication, citation and utility-based indicators; and the medialisation of science as its observation by the mass media intensifies. Previously, these developments have only been dealt with individually in the literature and by science-policy actors.
The Future of Scholarly Publishing documents the materials and results of an interdisciplinary working group commissioned by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) to analyse the future of scholarly publishing and to make recommendations on how to respond to the challenges posed by these developments.
As per the working group’s intention, the focus was mainly on the sciences and humanities in Germany. However, in the course of the work it became clear that the issues discussed by the group are equally relevant for academic publishing in other countries. As such, this book will contribute to the transfer of ideas and perspectives, and allow for mutual learning about the current and future state of scientific publishing in different settings.

Informations

• Publié par: African Minds
• Date de parution: 10 octobre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781928331551
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

First published in 2016 by De Gruyter Akademie Forschung under the title
Wissenschaftliches Publizieren: Zwischen Digitalisierung, Leistungsmessung, konomisierung und medialer Beobachtung .
This English language edition published in 2017 by African Minds 4 Eccleston Place, Somerset West 7130, Cape Town, South Africa
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2016 Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Chapter 8 : Copyright and Changing Systems of Scientific Communication translated from the German by Charles Heard. All other text translated by Marc Weingart, with the exception of Chapter 7 : Open Access and Chapter 10 : A Vision of Scientific Communication that were originally published in English.
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CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations
Foreword to the English Edition
INTRODUCTION
1 Changes in Scientific Publishing: A Heuristic for Analysis
Niels Taubert & Peter Weingart
PART ONE: THE CHANGING SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING SYSTEM
2 Different from Discipline to Discipline: Diversity in the Scholarly Publication System
Konstanze Rosenbaum
3 Recent Processes of Change from the Perspective of Academic Publishers
Niels Taubert
4 On the Situation and Development of Academic Libraries
Peter Weingart
5 A Participatory Experiment in Science Policy: Results and Evaluation of the ‘Publication System’ Online Consultation
Niels Taubert & Kevin Sch n
PART TWO: FRAMING CONDITIONS
6 Recommendations, Statements, Declarations and Activities of Science Policy Actors on Shaping the Scholarly Communication System
Ulrich Herb
7 Open Access: Effects on Publishing Behaviour of Scientists, Peer Review and Interrelations with Performance Measures
David Ball
8 Copyright and Changing Systems of Scientific Communication
Alexander Peukert & Marcus Sonnenberg
PART THREE: VISIONS
Visions Concerning the Future of Publishing in Science
9 Electronic Publishing, Open Access, Open Science and Other Dreams
Martin Gr tschel
10 A Vision of Scientific Communication
Reinhold Kliegl
11 Methodological Optimism Regarding the Digital Future: Critical Remarks on the Recommendations on the Future of the Scholarly Communication System
Volker Gerhardt
12 Trust, Quality Assurance and Open Access: Predatory Journals and the Future of the Scholarly Publication System
Peter Weingart
13 Publishing in German Sociology in the Year 2030
Niels Taubert
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
AHCI
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
APC
article processing charge
BBAW
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
BMBF
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
BOAI
Budapest Open Access Initiative
CC
Creative Commons
CODATA
Committee on Data for Science and Technology
DFG
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council)
DINI
German Initiative for Network Information
DOAJ
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOI
digital object identifier
DRM
digital rights management
EC
European Commission
ERC
European Research Council
FhG
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer Society)
GDCh
Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
GWK
Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz des Bundes und der L nder (General Science Conference of the Federal Government and the States)
HEFCE
Higher Education Funding Council for England
HEI
higher education institution
HGF
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres)
HRK
German Rectors Conference
IAP
InterAcademy Partnership
ICSU
International Council for Science
IP
intellectual property
IR
institutional repository
ISSC
International Social Science Council
IWG
interdisciplinary working group
JCR
Journal Citation Report
JIF
journal impact factor
JISC
Joint Information Systems Committee
KE
Knowledge Exchange
KII
Commission on the Future of Information Infrastructure
MPDL
Max Planck Digital Library
MPG
Max Planck Society
NPM
new public management
OA
open access
OJS
Open Journal Systems
OSF
Open Science Foundation
PR
public relations
RfII
Council for Information Infrastructure
RIN
Research Information Network
ROARMAP
Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies
RSC
Royal Society of Chemistry
SCI
Science Citation Index
SOAP
Study of Open Access Publishing
SPARC
Scholarly Publishing Initiative
SSCI
Social Science Citation Index
STM
science, technology and medicine
TA
toll access
TELOTA
The Electronic Life Of The Academy
TWAS
The World Academy of Sciences
UrhG
German Copyright Act
VAT
value added tax
WGL
Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Science Association)
ZPID
Leibniz-Zentrum f r Psychologische Information und Dokumentation (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)
Foreword to the English Edition
The formal scientific communication system is currently undergoing significant change. This is due to four intertwined developments: the digitisation of formal science communication; the increasing relevance of profit-making on the part of many academic publishers and other providers of information (in short: ‘economisation’); an increase in the self-observation of science by means of publication, citation and utility-based indicators; and an intensified observation of science by the mass media (‘medialisation’). Previously, these developments have only been dealt with individually in the literature and by science-policy actors. In fact, they not only affect the scientific communication system in the form of simple, individual causal chains but also in the form of long feedback loops and partly intertwined processes.
This book documents the materials and results of an interdisciplinary working group (IWG) commissioned by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) to analyse the future of scholarly publishing and to develop recommendations on how to respond to the challenges posed by these developments. The IWG served a three-fold purpose: first, the connections between the abovementioned developments were described; second, further relevant research on understanding recent developments was undertaken; and third, recommendations on the design of a future scholarly publication system were formulated.
Aside from the analysis of these interactions, the IWG also set out to take diverse framework conditions, standards and perspectives from different scientific fields into consideration, the goal being to formulate recommendations in the name of science as a whole and for science as a whole. Thus, in addition to the factors of influence, the heterogeneity of the publication cultures in different disciplines and fields of research was to be taken into account. In order to become familiar with these conditions and to be able to develop this mass of information into a concise format, interviews with members of the BBAW were conducted. These provided valuable information on the communication habits of different disciplines and fields of research, and revealed significant differences in these habits. Given the limitations of this approach and of the information gained in this process, an online dialogue was conducted which invited all German-speaking scientists and academics to participate in the development of the recommendations. Almost 700 participants responded with great interest and provided the IWG with important information about current problems and challenges in the formal communication system. Moreover, this procedure helped in identifying a normative consensus on what constitutes a good communication system. In addition to the views of the scientists, perspectives of experts from publishing companies and libraries were surveyed in order to gain a multi-layered and more complete picture of the publication landscape. Finally, three expert reports on central issues were commissioned.
By means of a multi-level evaluation and decision-making process, the Academy adopts recommendations of working groups so that – in cases of approval – they are published in its name. In spite of efforts to involve scientists early on in the development of recommendations in order to learn about their perspectives, standards and interests, protests emerged during the final process of acceptance. Several Academy members from the humanities called the recommendations unbalanced insofar as the role of digital publication was overly emphasised while that of printed publications was neglected. These arguments were taken int