Publishing in the 21st Century
Publishing in the 21st Century
Publishing in the 21st Century
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Parallel <strong>Publish<strong>in</strong>g</strong><br />
Indications it is worth <strong>the</strong> effort<br />
Department of <strong>Publish<strong>in</strong>g</strong> Infrastructure<br />
L<strong>in</strong>köp<strong>in</strong>g University Library<br />
David Lawrence<br />
www.ep.liu.se<br />
ep@ep.liu.se
Parallel <strong>Publish<strong>in</strong>g</strong> Activities at LiU<br />
–Began late 2007<br />
–Authors can do it <strong>the</strong>mselves, but from <strong>the</strong> beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g<br />
LiU library has offered a centralized service<br />
–When <strong>the</strong> publisher’s pdf can be used, parallel publish<strong>in</strong>g<br />
occurs “automatically”<br />
–In o<strong>the</strong>r cases, researchers are contacted: <strong>in</strong>structions to send<br />
appropriate file(s)<br />
–Library stays on top of copyright, l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g, embargo… rules<br />
–Centrally handled posts have much higher quality
Parallel <strong>Publish<strong>in</strong>g</strong> Workflow<br />
–Each week: list of <strong>the</strong> latest publications from L<strong>in</strong>köp<strong>in</strong>g<br />
from ISI (~monthly , lists from PubMed and Scopus)<br />
–List is parsed automatically:<br />
–for <strong>the</strong> journal and Sherpa is used to determ<strong>in</strong>e <strong>the</strong> rules for<br />
parallel publish<strong>in</strong>g<br />
–For L<strong>in</strong>köp<strong>in</strong>g authors, l<strong>in</strong>k made to personnel database<br />
–Email created and sent to all LiU authors when author <strong>in</strong>put for<br />
parallel publish<strong>in</strong>g required (with VR etc warn<strong>in</strong>g)<br />
–Publication registered <strong>in</strong> DiVA<br />
–When publisher’s pdf can be used, file is obta<strong>in</strong>ed from<br />
journal; o<strong>the</strong>rwise wait for file(s) from authors<br />
–Add title page (<strong>in</strong>formation auto‐extracted from<br />
registered <strong>in</strong>fo <strong>in</strong> DiVA and Sherpa)<br />
–Upload file
Time requirement<br />
–For register<strong>in</strong>g 30‐35 publications and parallel<br />
publish<strong>in</strong>g ~10 per week requires max 1 person<br />
day/week.<br />
–Result:<br />
Articles Conference Chapters Books<br />
970 211 153 44
– Available:<br />
Usage Data<br />
• Hits on metadata for given record<br />
• Number of downloads of pdf file<br />
– Switch from local pub reg system to DiVA,<br />
occurred Oct 2009<br />
• Means that usage data for <strong>the</strong> publications predat<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>the</strong>n all has a common start<strong>in</strong>g po<strong>in</strong>t
Average with fulltext: 1.4<br />
Average without fulltext: 1.1<br />
(not fractionalized)
Average with fulltext: 1.08<br />
Average without fulltext: 1.06
Summary<br />
– Parallel publish<strong>in</strong>g results <strong>in</strong> a significant<br />
<strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> ”hits” for a publication record <strong>in</strong><br />
an IR<br />
– Downloads of pdfs is of equal magnitude to<br />
record hits<br />
– Citation rate of publications that have been<br />
parallel published is higher than that for all<br />
LiU publications (causation unclear)<br />
– Next focus: highlight fulltext material…
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