Research outputs & impact in the digital environment:opportunities and challenges for the social researcher
Caroline Sutton Publisher, Co-Action PublishingPresident, Open Access Scholarly Publisher’s Association (OASPA)
SoRAD meeting14-15 June 2012, Stockholm
A bit about Co-Action Publishing
Established as Swedish limited liability company in 2007 by three former executives from academic publishing industry
Founding Member Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, current President
Publish journals across disciplines, including Social Sciences and the Humanities, but primarily medicine
30 fully-open access journals currently in portfolio
www.ijqhw.net
www.vulnerablegroupsandinclusion.net
Looking for a guest editor for a thematic cluster on Recovering drug addicts and inclusion.
Image by Bernd Sauerwein, accessed via Wikimedia,http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Planungsliteratur.JPG
www.ihop-net.org
OPEN ACCESS = Free Access + Re-use
Creative Commons Licenses
Most common:
Attribution 3.0
(CCBY or CCAL) Attribution-
Noncommercial 3.0
(CCBY-NC)
04/13/2023
Universe of a Subscription Journal
Access only for those who have a subscription – for Food & Nutrition Research, approx. 700-800 (majority society members)
04/13/2023
Universe of the OA Journal
Healthcare Workers – esp Physicians &
NutritionistsNutrition
advocates
General citizens interested in their
own nutrition
Gov’t agencies &
policy-makers
Researchers from related fields
Related profession
s
Industries with links
Pharmaceutical Co
(e.g. Novartis Medical Nutrition)
Print and online magazines
04/13/2023
Usage IncreasedDuring first six months: Over 42 000 full text article requests Over 32 000 full pages viewed by over 6 000 different
visitors to the website
Visitors were from 120 different countries while subscriptions had been from 14 countries
After three years: 5-6000 visitors per month 10 000- 17000 downloads per month Visitors from 190 countries, with the US accounting for
20% of traffic. Submissions are up, citations are up (Unofficial impact
calculation: 2.708) Over 2900 members on LinkedIn, over
1000 registered readers.
”A social network diagram”, Screenshot taken by Darwin Peacock, accessed through Wikimedia; distributed under a CCL 3.0.
Understanding knowledge as a network (vs. property)
Knowledge as an infrastructure
Publisher’s platform Ebsco DOAJ Institutional or subject-based repository, or both Author’s website Mendeley +/or other reference management
systems PDF/link sent to colleagues Metadata And lots of other places!
Think ’Google’, Think ’Max Strategy’
DOIs (open URLs) for articles, data sets, other outputs.CrossRef www.crossref.org
Digital Author Identifiers:ORCID: Open Researcher & Contributor IDhttp://about.orcid.org/abouthttp://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/11/20/orcid/
Capture information as metadata at time of submission
Permanent Identifiers to Reduce Ambiguity
Academic impact
Economic and societal impact
Instrumental
Conceptual
Capacity building
Understanding impact in today’s world
Can the Impact Factor measure this?
Article level metrics
www.total-impact.org
Article level metrics
Social bookmarking
Mega journals challenge pre-publication assessment
1. How your research and its impact are evaluated today will not be the same in five years time.
2. What are good indicators of impact (along the various dimensions that have been defined)? What can we measure? What should we be measuring?
3. How should we be measuring them? What do they mean?
4. Measurements in future will allow for greater granularity.
5. In the meantime, what kind of strategy should you follow to ensure impact?
In a nutshell….
THANK YOU!
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