2. www.maney.co.uk Online Journal Publishing Mark Simon Publishing Director Maney Publishing

3. www.maney.co.uk Maney publishes journals on Engineering, Materials and Energy

4. www.maney.co.uk Online publishing offers them: 1.Speed of publication 2.Increased dissemination of content 3.Searchability 4.Additional facilities 5.Information on usage Usage statistics enable librarians and information officers to increase usage

5. www.maney.co.uk This presentation on Online publishing will cover the following: 1.Formats 2.Searching for online content 3.Access 4.Usage

6. www.maney.co.uk 1. FORMATS

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8. Formats for illustrations TIFF and EPS are preferred to compression formats such as JPEG.

9. www.maney.co.uk Text formats for online Publishing PDF HTML SGML XML

10. www.maney.co.uk PDF (Portable Document Format)

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13. Press-optimised PDFs Screen-optimised PDFs Sharp, high-quality images are needed from authors at the start of the production process!

14. www.maney.co.uk The online PDFs do not have to mirror the print

15. www.maney.co.uk HTML ( Hypertext Markup Language). Uses ‘tags’ starting with ‘ ’ Defines how text will be displayed by web browsers E.g. adding the ‘ ’ tag before a word, and ending with the closing tag ‘ ’ will make that word bold.

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17. SGML and XML

18. www.maney.co.uk 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Generalised Markup Language Uses Document Type Definitions (DTDs) to describe logical structure of document Largely superseded by XML (Extensible Markup Language) Functions like SGML by describing data rather than appearance

19. www.maney.co.uk Kubla Khan by Coleridge In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree Where Alph the sacred river ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. There are 6 lines of text

20. www.maney.co.uk HTML: Kubla Khan by Coleridge In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree Where Alph the sacred river ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. There is a heading The heading is followed by two paragraphs The second paragraph has three line breaks in it

21. www.maney.co.uk XML: <firstname cent=“13th” rid=“p001”>Kubla Khan Coleridge surname> In<placename type=“mispronounced” location=“North China” chinese=“Shang Tu”>Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree Where Alph the sacred river ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

22. www.maney.co.uk 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 (and not 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 China which 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)

23. www.maney.co.uk 1. Formats 2. SEARCHING ONLINE CONTENT

24. www.maney.co.uk Screen-optimised PDFs sent to the online host (e.g. IngentaConnect, Highwire) Printers also send metadata relating to the content

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

27. www.maney.co.uk Using Google to locate content Key recent development in full text indexing Publishers grant Google access to ‘crawl’ for keywords

28. www.maney.co.uk Also under development: Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)http://scholar.google.com/ Searches more discretely across just scholarly content

29. www.maney.co.uk The article is the fourth result displayed. Clicking on the link takes the user to the definitive abstract hosted on Ingenta.

30. www.maney.co.uk Reference linking & DOIs Enables reference linking in PDFs ‘Forward linking’ also now increasingly available where ‘cited-by’ records are continually updated

31. www.maney.co.uk The live references are underlined in blue, allowing the user to click through to the cited journal

32. www.maney.co.uk The principal tool for reference linking is the DOI (or Digital Object Indentifier)

33. www.maney.co.uk CrossRef (www.crossref.org)www.crossref.org Responsible for managing and registering all DOIs Publishers register and pay fee for DOI management

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35. The DOI is 10.1179/174602205X39533

36. www.maney.co.uk 1. Formats 2. Searching 3. ACCESSING CONTENT

37. www.maney.co.uk 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

38. www.maney.co.uk The depth of access

39. www.maney.co.uk 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

40. www.maney.co.uk 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 repositorywww.arxiv.org

41. www.maney.co.uk 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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43. 1. Formats 2. Searching 3. Accessing Content 4. USAGE

44. www.maney.co.uk Usage statistics Usage statistics for ToCs, abstracts and full text articles provide important information for publishers, academic staff and librarians

45. www.maney.co.uk Counter Compliance Most online hosts offer COUNTER-compliant statistics Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources (www.projectcounter.org)www.projectcounter.org Developing international standards for generation and comparison of statistics

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47. 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.