Publications Report

Yannis Ioannidis, SGB Publications Advisor

Joe Konstan, Publications Board co-Chair

Outline

• In-Cooperation Proceedings• OpenTOC• Conference/Journal Issues• CHORUS, Federal Mandates, …• Other Pubs Board Activities

• Q&A and DISCUSSION

In-Cooperation Proceedings

Definitions•Archived in the DL: Actual content (paper) stored in & served from DL•Exposed in the DL: Metadata stored in the DL, incl. links to full content elsewhere

•Hosted by the DL: Published by others, archived in the DL

Policy Change on DL Archival

(Co-)sponsored

In-coop unrelated

ACMICPS

SIG ICPS ICPS

other SIG PUBS BOARD

Archived in DL

certain

possible

impossible

Policy Change on DL Archival

• If an in-coop event wants to be archived in the DL, it has to be published by ICPS

• If an in-coop event is published by someone else, it can be exposed in the DL

• High-quality important content (e.g., in danger) can be hosted in the DL

Notes on DL Exposition

• Being exposed in the DL– Treated exactly like all ACM publications …

• All services, aggregations, groupings, classifications, analytics, …

– … except for link leading to publisher’s website

• SIG decides on– in-coop status– DL exposition

Notes on DL Hosting

• Future adoption of quality content by failing publishers– ACM must be authorized by authors

• Better done from beginning, if such possibility

• Vetting by the pubs board, as usual

Vetting on DL Hosting

(Co-)sponsored

In-coop unrelated

ACMICPS

SIG ICPS ICPS

other SIG PUBS BOARD

Archived in DL

certain

possible

impossible

PUBS BOARD

OpenTOC

Definitions on 3-year ACM experiment•Open-Surround: Open Access from DL for 1mo around a conference•OpenTOC: Open Access from DL for 1yr after conference on SIG or conference site

•Revenue impact to be assessed at end

Observations

• 326 sponsored conferences• 236 openTOC• 62 actually put in place (for 19 SIGs)

• Most downloads1. around conference2. during 1st year3. during 2nd year

OpenTOC decision

•Indefinite OpenTOC

•Definitive version of proceedings contents openly available from DL indefinitely

Survey Results

Conference/Journal Issues

• Background– Jointly-staffed Conferences Committee– Publishing Conference Papers in Journals

• Extended versions• Journal-first• Journal-integrated

• Draft Report Provided to SGB– Sent to you in backup

Conference/Journal Issues

• Highlights …– Recognition that quality research is often

published in conferences, and that conference publication is not uniformly recognized• Much of what we publish in conferences would

qualify as journal publication in other fields– Encourage continued collaborative

arrangements with Transactions (journal-first and journal-integrated)

– Create a new Proceedings of the ACM line for top-quality conference proceedings.

Proceedings of the ACM

• Model– Series of PACM (e.g., PACM Programming

Languages; PACM Software Systems) which have issues for individual proceedings; governance under design

– Proceedings based on quality and review process (includes review by experts; at least one revision)

– PACM would replace the proceedings for those conferences – working on financial model to support conference use/access

– Expectation of mechanism for direct submission without conference attendance

Feedback Sought!

• Issues• Jaudelice de Oliveira (jau@coe.drexel.edu)• Roch Guerin (roch@acm.org)

– Criteria for Selection– Options for Direct Submission– Management Structure

• Joe Konstan (konstan@acm.org)

– Business Model• Goal is to match proceedings costs to the extent

possible

CHORUS, Federal Mandates, …

• Current decisions– Keeping longstanding policy of author rights to

make mandatory deposits– 12 month embargo (consistent with US Agency

defaults)– Serve version of record (alternative was author-

prepared version)– Serve version in the full ACM DL

• Future discussions– Services we can provide for authors?– Seek voluntary author payments?

CHORUS, Federal Mandates, …

• Overview– Funder OA Mandates (US, Europe, World,

Foundation) • Variations: deposit/link; embargo; cost

– CHORUS – Publisher solution targeted initially at US Government mandates• Automatically ties together capturing funding

data (FundRef), required deposit/reporting, open access within publisher DL

– NSF: using DOE Pages model, negotiations with CHORUS

Other Pubs Board Activities

• ICPS– New EiC, editorial board– Numbers growing significantly– many proposals from US, Australia, France

• Creation of gold OA journal suspended• Work on new search engine, DL services, …• New taxonomy and backward compatibility• Very active books program

– Graduate textbooks, monographs, doctoral dissertation award winners, history accounts of computing pioneers, …

– Soliciting books!

Q&A and Discussion