1. The Transition from Traditional to Internet-Based Publishing Dr. ZHOU,Huaibei Scientific Research Publishing November 2015

2. Contents Status of Academic Publishing Challenges to the traditional Publishers New Biz Model and internet-Based Tech OA and Open Access Library IF and Article/Author Level Metrics Summary

3. Traditional Academic Publishing High Cost for Printing, Mailing and Storage == 》 Low Acceptance Rate due to the Limited Budget Slow Communication due to Air 、 Land 、 Sea Shipping Limited Coverage Due to Cost and Biz Model

4. Traditional Academic Publishing (2) Academic articles are stored in databases developed by a few big publishers University libraries have to buy these databases The Library Budget is limited  Less Exposure

5. Academic Publishing in China 5000 Academic Journals, 3000+ Publishers Paper-format Based and Financially Difficult Low Visibility and Poor Efficiency

6. How Many Times an Academic Article will be read in a life time? Traditional publishing: 7 times on average per article Open Access Model: 1000 times per year per article More audiences, high impact

7. Open Access Model Pay by Authors (usually funded) Free to Readers Rapid Peer-review Paper Judged by Every Reader (quality control)

8. Open Access Publishing Started about 12 years ago New Business Model and Internet Based It is new but very promising

9. Governments Embrace OA Model

10. Traditional Publishing needs to be CHANGED The Internet changed the world Search Engine indexes everything Free access to contents Traditional Journals are expensive and hard to maintain Governments want the change, scientists want the change

11. Indexing, Impact Factors? Traditional IF: Average of many articles and over a long period of time  Make no sense Article Level: Citations of an article is better than IF of a journal Google Scholar provides better citation counts

12. Google-based Impact Factor

13. H-index Definition: H articles with more than H citations Author Level: H index, ISI does not have Journal Level: H index better than ISI IF More reasonable and transparent

14. Example of H-index

15. How Many Academic Journal Publishers Do We Need? ?

16. OA, We started 10 years ago… Case Studies

19. How Many Databases Do We Need for All University Libraries ?

20. One Stop Shopping for Scholars www.oalib.com

21. A Digital Library for ALL Search Engine - Find the papers you want from the OA journal publishers all over the world Publish a paper in OALib Journal (Gold OA) Disciplinary Repositories - Archive (Green OA) Index - A Journal/Paper database

22. Search Engine

23. Mega Journal: OALib Journal

24. Will All the Existed Traditional and OA Publishers Die ? Articles will be published by authors over the Social Network Based on: Facebook, Linkedin, Weibo and Weixin, etc. All posted articles or short paragraph may have DOIs, be stored and cited by other scholars Powerful Search Engine and Social Network will help authors to publish and find an article

25. The Social Network Based Publishing Social Network Based: Facebook, Linkedin, Weibo and Weixin, etc. Web Based Publishing will be transformed to the Social Network based It will be easy for scholars to publish and find the right articles

26. Summary The Traditional Publishing is Over The Traditional Web Based Publishing is Ongoing The Social Network Based Publishing is Booming Author or Article Based Metrics is Better OA Library will Provide a Better Platform for Scholars

27. Thank You Dr. Zhou, Huaibei Scientific Research Publishing bzhou@scirp.org