Towards Paperless Periodicals Henri van Dorssen, Publisher – Energy Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK IFEG, Energy Institute, London May 18th, 2006

2 About Elsevier  Science & Medical division of Reed Elsevier (others are: Education, Legal, and Business)  Leading provider of STM information to the academic, research and healthcare communities  Over 7,000 employees in over 70 locations, worldwide  Publish more than 1,800 journals; S&T 1,100 journals  Leading online information services: ScienceDirect, Scopus and Scirus  Energy portfolio: 25 journals, in addition we publish another 45 energy-related titles in Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Chemistry, Social Sciences

3 Helping to Advance Science  Integral part of a worldwide network of researchers, scientists and clinicians  Publish leading edge research and breakthroughs; help to develop new areas of science  Perform the essential functions that add value to the work of the academic community that we serve – submission, peer review, editing, production of print and electronic  Create a definite record of scientific discovery (registration), and ensure that published research is preserved in perpetuity (archive)  Distribute information globally, in formats desired by users  Develop and supply innovative information solutions that deliver increased productivity  Taking steps to embed customer-focus in everything we do

4 Integral Part of a Worldwide Network  Many of our employees are from the communities that we serve  Partner with journal editors, editorial board members, and referees  Article selection is very rigorous – The Lancet accepts <10%; on average 40-90% of articles rejected  Many leading authors and editors: 80% of Nobel Laureates published with Elsevier in past 50 yrs; almost all of the 200+ most cited scientists published in Elsevier journals  Products and services support 15 million doctors, nurses and health professionals; 10 million+ researchers and 5 million students worldwide  We also actively partner with librarians – Scopus was designed and developed with 21 research institutions

5 Adding Value  Organise editorial boards, appointments, editorial meetings  Solicit and manage new submissions  Manage and enhance peer review  Edit and prepare manuscripts  Produce 250,000 new articles pa  Publish and disseminate to 10M+ researchers in 180 countries  Our Research Department helps us to monitor quality, impact factors, citation trends – feed back to Editors  Archive and promote 7M articles through ScienceDirect  Deal with issues of plagiarism, mal practice, fraud – set ethical guidelines, educate authors (China)

6 -ScienceDirect (1997): 7M full-text articles, 80M abstracts, reference works - Backfiles (2003): From Vol 1, Issue 1 - Pay Per View : 24hrs access, cc - e-Select (2005): 1-yr licence for individual titles + 10 yrs back issues, cc - ScienceDirect College Edition (2006): collections of jnls and/or reference works Innovative Information Solutions -Scopus (2004): abstract and citation database of 15,000 STM titles from 4,000 publishers, from 1966 (references from 1996), citation counts -Scirus : free web search engine for scientists (articles, patents, urls) -Author Gateway : monitor progress, PDF proofing, copyright info, guidelines -Elsevier Editorial System – online submission/review/editorial tool for jnls

7 Customer-Focus  Customer service programme: systematic customer satisfaction research, improved training, customer relations management group reporting directly to CEO  Stakeholder feedback programmes: involving librarians, researchers, physicians, nurses, students, authors, editors  Restructured S&T division: mirror the communities we serve; closer alignment to customer segments (academic & government, corporate, and researchers)  Serve on NA and European Library Advisory Boards; with Special Libraries Association (SLA) developed SLA Online University to advance professional development  First, official, independent, digital archive of all Elsevier journals in partnership with KB (National Library of the Netherlands, 2002); recently similar archiving agreement with Portico, NJ

8 Journals in the Energy field – a selection New for 2007

9 Developing Publishing Standards that Improve Scientific Communication and Access  Co-founder of CrossRef™, founding member of International DOI Foundation, founding member of COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Resources)  Founding publisher of HINARI and AGORA, UN-based initiatives providing free or low cost access to health, agriculture and related information in developing countries  In 2004 we changed our author posting policy to allow authors to post their accepted manuscripts to their websites and their institution’s repository  Our licences explicitly allow members of the public to have unlimited walk-in access to our online databases and materials subscribed to by a library

10 … continued  We make all articles published in our Cell Press journals openly available on our website 12 months following publication; IJSS followed in 2005 at 24 months  In May 2005 we adjusted our author agreements to test allowing NIH-funded authors to meet NIH’s request that authors’ accepted manuscripts be posted to PubMedCentral within 12 months of final publication  Engage with scientific and academic communities in exploring and shaping innovations that can deliver demonstrable and sustainable benefits  Continue to observe, test, learn and implement based on facts, and based on the developing needs of research communities

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