Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications Report of a Symposium (2004) / Chapter Skim
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At the same time, some speakers indicated that such a study, if done carefully and authoritatively, could be very useful in adding some rigor to the ongoing debate about the high cost of journal subscriptions and the value that publishers bring to the process of scientific communication. Other cost-related issues that were discussed included the creation and operation of digital archives and the digital conversion of back sets; the 1
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. The library overview included some statistics and anecdotal information about the responses of libraries to rising subscription costs and the bundling efforts of commercial publishers; the implications for libraries of changes in electronic journal formats and content, and of digital scientific communications more broadly; and the changing role and influence of libraries in the digital publication context.
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Other related issues were discussed, including the practical difficulties in transitioning to the openaccess publishing model, support of the open-access publishing approach by research sponsors, the effect of different publishing business models on the long-term preservation of digital journals, and advertising revenues in electronic publishing generally. The results of these discussions appeared to be inconclusive.
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As to the licenses between authors and publishers, two models were suggested that serve the author's interests better: either retain copyright, while licensing the publisher to deploy the work in all ways that the publisher needs for effective publication and dissemination, or transfer copyright to the publisher, with more rights reserved to the author, such as permission to redistribute the work. Issues raised in the general discussion included a description of additional problems with the transfer of copyrights by authors in universities (i.e., the author may not own the copyright under the university policy but may not know that, thereby signing void copyright transfer agreements)
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Open institutional repositories, such as the MIT OpenCourseWare project and the MIT-led DSpace consortium for the deposit of various types of research materials in an openly accessible archive, provide additional examples of innovative projects and models. Despite the exciting possibilities raised by these different initiatives, the subsequent discussion raised a number of potential difficulties in implementing some of these new approaches.
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Issues raised in the discussion included the need for federal coordination and investment in the cyberinfrastructure to maximize the opportunities for information integration and knowledge creation, some of which were identified in the final two sessions; the difficulties of quality control and review of data in very large or complex databases, particularly in the biological sciences; restrictions on data mining in proprietary STM information that is based on publicly funded research; the opportunities for knowledge discovery from the open publication of large and complex data sets; the transformation of the archiving function in the knowledge discovery process; lost opportunities associated with insufficient people and resources focused on the avalanche of data in all disciplines; and the positive role of the journal publishers in the successful development of databases in molecular biology.
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