IOPscience More than just an e-only experience Tony O’Rourke Assistant Director, Journals IOP Publishing Ltd, Bristol, UK SLA 2007, Denver CO.

IOPscience l Why change? l What research have we done? l What are librarians saying? l What’s the difference? l What does it replace? l What’s in it for my institution? l What will happen to my existing Journals service? l Why doesn’t IOP just collaborate with other society publishers?

Why IOPscience? l There are more than 5000 different institutions in the world with a research interest in Physics l Top 10% of institutions = 80% of papers l IOP has around 3500 institutions with access to IOP journals l 103 countries l Mission of IOP Publishing: To disseminate a knowledge of Physics l 3500 institutions access all IOP journals content l 5000 research institutions access to all content l At a fair price

Tester feedback l 1100 Board Members l Large institutional customers l Small to medium sized research institutions l Long tail l Easy searching l Clean look l Filtering improves discoverability l RSS feeds l Tag clouds – text rather than numbers l More personalization

IOPscience v Current Model l IOP’s current model: One Price l Institutions l IOP Members l Individuals (no e-access) l No permanent electronic access l Print is the archive! l Other models l Carnegie based classifications l USA, UK l Difficult elsewhere

New Model l IOPscience l All journals hosted on IOP’s journals platform l Database view of all 51 journals l All content 1874-present l 244,000+ articles (May 2007) l IOPscience can replace your existing service l Does not replace A&I services l Predominantly IOP content

IOPscience Pricing Model l Ability to pay l Pricing Factors l Size of research – Physics, Mathematics, Astrophysics l Usage l Location (country) l Type of institution l A score to determine price band

IOPscience: How do you benefit? l Fair pricing l View all content l Not just subscribed journals l 1874 onwards l Permanent access to subscribed years l Lower price for archive customers l Optional print (deep discount)

IOPscience: How do you benefit? l Better searching l Better browsing l Better retrieval of full text l Better indexing of content l Forward and backward citing l Web 2.0 functionality l Tag clouds l Clusters l Personalization l RSS feeds

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IOPscience l Beta version available now for testing l Version 0.8 Fall 2007 l Version 1.0 January 2008

Working with other publishers l “Why doesn’t IOP collaborate with other (society) scientific publishers?” l AIP is our partner in North America l Founder member of CrossRef l Founder member of COUNTER l Partner publishers (e.g. AAS) l Scitopia…

Thank you l Any questions?