Authors' Rights and Wrongs: the Shift in Academic Publishing
Johannes Gutenber
1450
GOLD!
His printing press
Mainz
January 1665
March 1665
What's wrong in the publishing world?
Peer review
Ghost writers
Bias
Henry Oldenburg's
Registration - I was the first to discover this!
Dissemination - others should know about it!
Peer review - my peers think it's ok!
Archival record - this will be my discovery forever!
Four Key Aspects of Scholarly Publishing
Journal
Accepted Manuscript
Ready for publication
Publisher
Published
Library
Reader
Editor
Referee
Author
Submission
Ghostwriting
Copyright Control
Bias
Dissertations
Cost
Longevity
Archiving
Licensing
Publisher Greed
About 2000 publishers worldwide
100 publish 67% of all journals
          o 65% of all articles published are from                    
         FOR Profit Publishers
          o 3-4% University Presses
                + UP's hold 60-70% of market               
                  on book publishing
Publishing is BIG Business
1665
Open Access
Chemistry 	$3,254
Physics 	1,756
Astronomy 	2,850
Engineering 	1,548
Geology 	1,724
Biology 	1,323
Math & Computer Sci	1,278
Zoology	1,259
Botany	1,238
Health Sciences	1,132

Library Journal Periodical Price Survey, April 2006
Avg Price by Discipline
Revenue Dominance
Percent Change
Open-access literature is digital literature that is available on the web, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
NIH Mandate
Problems
Solutions
Authors' Rights
Negotiate!
Choose your publisher
Self archive
Retain copyright
History
Manuscript must be deposited in PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication by a scholarly journal and be made publicly available no later than one year after publication in that journal.
“The ability of public [institutions] and others to carry out their mission is dependent upon the ability of our faculty and students to gain access to the knowledge, equipment, and techniques necessary to teach and research at the cutting edge of the disciplines and engage in the practice of those “arts.”   Increasingly, our faculty and researchers have seen limits placed on their access to these critical resources.  Restrictions that limit the ability of public [institutions] to perform their missions make it difficult to fully implement the public good.” 


Peter McPherson, On Ensuring That Intellectual Property Public Policy Promotes Progress. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no. 1 (January/February 2009): 45.
24,000 Journals
3% annual growth
1 million authors
10-15 million readers
Journal Statistics Today
"Perhaps no problem facing the individual scientist today is more defeating than the effort to cope with the flood of published scientific research, even within one's own narrow specialty."

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1955!
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Reader
Money
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