ALPSP Publications (incl. guidelines, reports, statements, research & articles) |
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| 2008 research report studying what criteria authors use to rank journals. |
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| 2007 White paper from ALPSP. (Available free to ALPSP members) |
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| 2006 White paper from the ALPSP Future Watch Committee. |
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| 2008 study of policies and practices of publishers - now in its 3rd edition. (PDF version free to ALPSP members). See also the 2005 edition. |
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| 2004 report analyses what societies and learned associations actually do with the surpluses generated from publishing. |
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Articles & Reports |
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| This report looks at the current costs of producing, publishing and reading research, and examines the impacts of different publishing models including author-pays, and e-only. |
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| A report published by the Association of Research Libraries, investigating types of online resources valued by scholars, especially those that push the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative. |
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| 2009 report from JISC on the costs and benefits of different research communication methods and the total cost of research communication within the UK. |
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| An article by Tenopir and King published in DLib, November 2008, confirms earlier reports that the number of articles being cited is reducing, although the articles that are being cited, are being cited more. |
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| Interesting 2006 report from the EU that assesses the evolution of the market in scientific publishing. (PDF) |
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| 2005 CIBER report on attitudes of senior journal authors. |
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| 2006 report prepared for the Department of Education, Science and Training, Australia, by the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University. |
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| Annually updated university library statistics going back 12 years - available to purchase, or free to contributors only. |
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| A follow up to the 2006 report, 'Scientific publishing in transition: an overview of current developments,' 'The STM Report' collected the available evidence and provides a comprehensive picture of the trends and currents in scholarly communication. |
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| A report of how different data selection choices can dramatically affect bibliographic data analyses and representation of UK research within the published literature. |
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| Skillset, the UK the industry body that supports skills and training, has published this report following extensive research during 2007-8. |
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| An evidence-based analysis of data in scholarly journal publishing, including the volume and value of the journal market, usage, citation and impact factors and the cost and impact of open access journals. |
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| These two reports (2003 and 2004) from the Wellcome Trust provide financial information about the publishing industry and asses the cost of publishing research in journals. |
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Projects |
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| This search engine from Ted Bergstrom and Preston McAfee can be used to find internationally-published journals and rank them by price per article or citation. |
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| UKSG working group since 2006 investigating good practice data transfer when a title moves publisher. In 2008 they published the UKSG Transfer Code of Practice, Version 2.0. |
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Websites |
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| A publishing consultant whose website tracks trends and provides useful links to publishing information. |
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| This section of the US biannual report uses data on S&E articles to indicate world S&E knowledge production by country - and although the report focusses on Science and Engineering, this chapter includes data from both the Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). |
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| Wide-ranging information about the publishing industry from the UK Publishers Association. |
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| Skillset - the UK industry body supporting skills and training |
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| Skillset support training for the publishing industry and also provide statistics about the industry |
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