1. Björk 2006 1 Scientific publishing today Bo-Christer Björk Nordic Doctoral Seminar 2006

2. Björk 2006 2 Effects of Internet A lot of the stuff is electronic Also revenue models are changing

3. Björk 2006 3 Open Access Can be financed in many ways Open Source like Author payments Funders pay Advertising

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10. 10 Why benchmarking Journals can be seen as service providers to authors Often authors base their decision where to submit on very incomplete information

11. Björk 2006 11 ”Net value of submission” Infrastructure Readership Prestige Performance

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17. Björk 2006 17 Acceptance rates ITcon 0,55 CME0,51 JCCE0,47 ALPSP journals0,42 DOAJ0,64 DOAJ Excluding BiomedCentral and ISP journals0,55

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23. Björk 2006 23 Futher work The method is currently being applied to e-commerce journals Should be tested for areas where there are open access alternatives (biomedicine?)

24. Björk 2006 24 Conference publishing Most bigger conferences are run using electronic submission and reviewing systems Some home made Some Open Source Some commercial

25. Björk 2006 25 Conference Some conferences leave the material open access Some do CD-ROM:s Some have external publishers

26. Björk 2006 26 Cases CIB W78 (OA) ECPPM COMBINING FORCES - Advancing Facilities Management and Construction through Innovation June 13-16, 2005 Helsinki

27. Björk 2006 27 REFERENCES Björk, Bo-Christer, Turk, Ziga, Holmström, Jonas. Benchmarking scientific journals from the submitting author’s viewpoint. Accepted for Publication, Learned Publishing, Vol 19 No. 2, April 2006 Björk, Bo-Christer, Turk, Ziga, Holmström, Jonas. The Scholarly Journal Re- engineered: A Case Study of an Open Access Journal in Construction IT, Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction, ITcon, Vol. 10, 2005, pp.349-371,http://www.itcon.org/ Kaufman-Wills Group, The facts about Open Access, ALPSP, 2005