1. MOAC DTC Wednesday lunchtime talk MOAC Seminar Room, top floor, Senate House Wednesday 28 th Nov – ALL WELCOME! 12.50pm - Lunch 1.10-1.45pm - Seminar Speaker: Jenny Delasalle University of Warwick “What do publishers do for you?”

2. What do you want from a publisher? 1.Edit and improve your work 2.Prestige & publicity 3.Your rights: protection against plagiarism 4.Perpetual record of your work 5.Money! 6.Audience: –broad distribution / target community. –recognition amongst scholars. And FAST!

3. An aside: Money, money, money… Text book! A Semi-popular book? (high profile in the press: Dr Alice Roberts / Ben Miller) At least not cost you (personally) loads to publish! –Journal Article Processing Charges –Open Access funds

4. Four Journal functions 1.Dissemination – publishing and marketing 2.Quality Control – editorial & peer review processes. (Publisher Awards & funding of research.) 3.Canonical Archive – storage, DOIs 4.Recognition of authors http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/fytton (1997)

5. Journal editors Editorial boards: active or ceremonial! Associate or Assistant editors Editors: final decision. Comments too? 200 manuscripts a year? Select peer reviewers & select articles Responsibilities –Developing the discipline –Defending against bias –Appropriate and inappropriate publication –Efficient reviewing process

6. Ethical concerns the work of others is properly acknowledged, credited and referenced. data should be accurate and preserved and accessible - as appropriate. the article should be complete and publication well timed (eg results not being shared prematurely). co-authorship is properly attributed. confidentiality is respected and maintained.

7. Editorial office work Journal Managers & Editorial Assistants Management reports! Journal home page & Author guidelines Copyediting & proof-reading –Spelling –Grammar –Style –xml document Digital media? Corrections & modifications.

8. Publishers disseminate articles Journal issues, with ToCs Build a reputation for a journal Metadata records : A&I sources Search Engine Optimisation Own discovery platforms, eg SpringerLink Open Access: new audiences? Social media & other possibilities Measuring downloads & social media activity.

9. 3 stages of publishing 1.Assess 2.Prepare 3.Disseminate 4.Protect? - copyright Jason Priem “the de-coupled journal” http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/10. 3389/fncom.2012.00019/full

10. Jason Priem’s functions

11. De-coupling possibilities Quality assurance through peer review after publication? – hence Altmetrics? Independent peer review before you submit? Discovery & navigation: Search engine optimisation, Hosting sites, A&I tools Peripherals Online: Linking & Liking!

12. Are these journals? Faculty of 1000 - http://f1000.com/http://f1000.com/ SSRN - www.ssrn.comwww.ssrn.com ArXiv - http://arxiv.org/http://arxiv.org/ Math Overflow http://mathoverflow.net/http://mathoverflow.net/

13. TitleURLTypeAssessPrepare Disse minate Faculty of 1000 http://f1000.co m/ http://f1000.co m/ Community selection of articles SSRN www.ssrn.com Networking site ArXiv http://arxiv.org/ Subject repository Math Overflow http://mathover flow.net/ Collaborative blog