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Technical Aspects in Scientific Publishing:
A Scientific Publisher's Perspective
Chi Wai (Rick) Lee
World Scientific Publishing
~ World Scientific Publishing ~
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A scientific publisher formed in 1981
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Publish over 120 journals and 500 books a year
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Exclusive publisher for Nobel Lectures
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Own and operate the Imperial College Press
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Started putting journals online since 1996
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One of the first 16 publishers who joined
Crossref when it was formed in 1999
~ Publishing Cycle ~
Acquisition
Dissemination
Production
~ Acquisition ~
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Author / Publisher Matchmaking Process
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Where to find good authors?
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How to attract authors to submit their
manuscripts?
Submission and Peer Review Process
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How to submit manuscript in the right format?
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Where to find the right reviewers?
~ Production ~
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Content Management System
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Production Platforms
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Print-Centric vs Web-Centric Workflow
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Standard TeX/LaTeX, Word or XML Formats
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Special Platform, e.g.
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ChemDraw
EndNotes
~ Production ~
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Web-Centric Publishing
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Semantic markup using XML
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Cross-referencing
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Multimedia and other supplementary data
support
~ Dissemination ~
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Distribution & Availability
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Various Platforms and Formats
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Dark Archives
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e.g. PubMed, CAS, Google Scholar, OCLC,
NASA etc.
e.g. LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, JSTOR, Portico etc.
Open vs Pay Access
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Who pay to publish and maintain the content?
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What's the impact?
~ Dissemination ~
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Sales & Marketing
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Channels
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Business Models
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From standard to non-standard models
Citation Index and Impact Factor
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From conventional to unconventional channels
An important marketing & acquisition tool
Advance Publication
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Improve turnaround time and visibility
~ What's Next? ~
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CRC (Camera-Ready Copy) to WRC (WebReady Copy)
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Author provides WRC based on industrial
standards
Common formats to facilitate EDI such as
RDF
Production Automation
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Conversion from non-semantic format to
semantic format
Real-time publishing?
~ What's Next? ~
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Platform and Interface
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PDF & beyond, or something else?
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Interface: simple and convenient vs powerful
and sophisticated
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Personalized library and database that
assimilate all relevant info in a single
interface?
~ What's Next? ~
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Search, Discovery & Impact Measures
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Data mining such as finding readers or
potential authors through profiling, citation
analysis etc.
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Measures of impact based on a set of criteria
in addition to impact factor