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Online Journal Publishing

Mark Simon

Publishing Director

Maney Publishing

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Maney publishes journals on Engineering,

Materials and Energy

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Online publishing offers them:

1. Speed of publication 2. Increased dissemination of content3. Searchability4. Additional facilities 5. Information on usage

Usage statistics enable librarians and information officers to increase usage

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This presentation on Online publishing will cover the following:

1. Formats

2. Searching for online content

3. Access

4. Usage

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1. FORMATS

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Formats for illustrations

TIFF and EPS are preferred to compression formats such as

JPEG.

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Text formats for online Publishing

• PDF

• HTML

• SGML

• XML

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PDF (Portable Document Format)

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Press-optimised PDFsScreen-optimised PDFs

Sharp, high-quality images are needed fromauthors at the start of the productionprocess!

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The online PDFs do not have to mirror the print

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HTML ( Hypertext Markup Language).

•Uses ‘tags’ starting with ‘<’ and ending with ‘>’

•Defines how text will be displayed by web browsers

E.g. adding the ‘<b>’ tag before a word, and endingwith the closing tag ‘</b>’ will make that word bold.

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SGML and XML

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•SGML = Standard Generalised Markup Language

•Uses Document Type Definitions (DTDs) to describe logical structure of document

•Largely superseded by XML (Extensible Markup Language)

•Functions like SGML by describing data rather than appearance

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Kubla Khanby Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decreeWhere Alph the sacred river ran

Through caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea.

• There are 6 lines of text

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HTML:

<h1>Kubla Khan</h1><p>by Coleridge</p>

<p>In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree<br>Where Alph the sacred river ran<br>

Through caverns measureless to man<br>Down to a sunless sea.</p>

• There is a heading• The heading is followed by two paragraphs• The second paragraph has three line breaks in it

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XML:<poem><poemtitle><firstname cent=“13th”rid=“p001”>Kubla</firstname><honourarytitle rid=“p001”>Khan</honourarytitle></poemtitle><author><surname>Coleridgesurname></author><stanza><line>In<placename type=“mispronounced”location=“North China” chinese=“ShangTu”>Xanadu</placename> did<firstname cent=“13th”>Kubla</firstname><honourarytitle> Khan</honourarytitle> astately pleasure dome decree</line><line>Where<river type=“sacred” id=“r001” location=“China”>Alph</river> the sacred river ran</line><line>Through cavernsmeasureless to man</line>• <line><direction rid=“r001”>Down</direction> to a sunless

sea.</line></stanza>

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• The data is a poem• The title of the poem is “Kubla Khan”• Kubla is the first name of someone who lived in the 13th century

– Khan is an honourary title which applies directly to Kubla (andnot to any other person mentioned, such as Coleridge)

• The surname of the poem’s author is Coleridge• The poem has one stanza which consists of four lines

– Xanadu is the mispronounced name of a place in North Chinawhich the Chinese themselves call “Shang-Tu”

• Alph is the name of a river in China• Alph is a sacred river• The direction that Alph ran was “down” (this information is deduced

from a common label - r001)

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1. Formats

2. SEARCHING ONLINE CONTENT

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•Screen-optimised PDFs sent to the online host (e.g. IngentaConnect, Highwire)

•Printers also send metadata relating to the content

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Abstracting services may differ in the way the article abstract is presented. For example, Medline presents this as follows:

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Using Google to locate content

•Key recent development in full text indexing

•Publishers grant Google access to ‘crawl’ for keywords

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•Also under development: Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)

•Searches more discretely across just scholarly content

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The article is the fourth result displayed. Clicking on the link takes the user to thedefinitive abstract hosted on Ingenta.

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Reference linking & DOIs

•Enables reference linking in PDFs

• ‘Forward linking’ also now increasingly available where ‘cited-by’ records are continually updated

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The live references are underlined in blue, allowing the user to click through to the cited journal

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The principal tool for reference linking is the DOI (or Digital Object Indentifier)

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CrossRef (www.crossref.org)

•Responsible for managing and registering all DOIs

•Publishers register and pay fee for DOI management

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The DOI is 10.1179/174602205X39533

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1. Formats2. Searching

3. ACCESSING CONTENT

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Accessing Content

i. Online access free with a print subscription

ii. Online-only subscriptions

iii. Online access for society members

iv. Single subscriptions and ‘bundles’

v. Site licences

vi. Consortium licences

vii. Pay per view

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The depth of access

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Open Access

i. Open access of selected content only

ii. Delayed open access

iii. Immediate, time-limited open access

iv. Partial open access

v. Mixed open access

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Self-archiving

•Authors freely deposit articles online either pre-print or post-print

•On their own website or in a subject-based repository (e.g. arXiv, www.arxiv.org, used for physics and related disciplines) or an institutional repository

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Fast track publication

•Rise of pre-print publication in response to author needs

•Publishers use fast-track facilities to publish accepted articles before assigning to an issue

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1. Formats2. Searching3. Accessing Content

4. USAGE

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Usage statistics

•Usage statistics for ToCs, abstracts and full text articles provide important information for publishers, academic staff and librarians

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Counter Compliance

•Most online hosts offer COUNTER-compliant statistics

•Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources (www.projectcounter.org)

•Developing international standards for generation and comparison of statistics

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SUMMARY

As online publishing develops, it is likely that online journal content will become increasingly separated from the print archive as even greater exploitation is made of the ability to provide additional or enhanced content, and under different access models.