2015 SSP 37th Annual Meeting
Concurrent 4D: “How Much Does it Cost?”…
Business Strategy
Concurrent 4D: “How Much Does it Cost?” versus “What are you Getting for/doing with the Money?” An Overview and Discussion of the Open Access Journal Business Model, (lack of) Transparency, and What is Important for the Various Stakeholders. Much discussion on the Scholarly Kitchen in the last 12 months has centered on a key question: How much does (or should) it cost to publish a journal article? But the cost of journal publishing is more based on historical performance and systems, rather than there being a definitive answer based on a publishing services marketplace. The questions evolve: as a publisher, is/are your journal/s your sole operation? What kind of margin do you need (or want) to secure? Are you transitioning a legacy margin? What services do you offer? Will authors/funders start to ask what an APC is being used for? What operation am I contributing to? Cui bono? This session will provide a summary of the data and various SK discussions, and speakers will raise thought-provoking questions for an industry that largely remains a closed book regarding the finances underpinning its operations.
Moderator: Dan Morgan, Collabra: University of California Press – Twitter Handle: djjmorgan
Speakers
Dan Morgan, University of California Press
Dan Morgan is Digital Science Publisher at the University of California Press, and the Publisher of Collabra (CollabraOA.org), the Press’ OA mega-journal. He joined UC Press in June 2014 to focus on mission-driven, not-for-profit, digital initiatives. He has worked in scholarly publishing for over 13 years, in publishing management, research, open access, and strategy roles. All of that time was at Elsevier where he ended up the head of the Psychology and Cognitive Sciences journals department, then Senior Manager for Open Access and other outreach for North America. He is a passionate advocate for open access, open science, and advancing scholarly communication. When he isnt thinking about Collabra he enjoys playing guitars in bands, films, craft cocktails, thriller novels, and dogs.
Twitter Handle: @djjmorgan
Twitter Handle: @djjmorgan
Rebecca Kennison, K|N Consultants
The K of K|N, Rebecca is one of the two principals at K|N Consultants, along with Lisa Norberg. Prior to working full time at K|N, she was the founding director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, a division of the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, where for nearly 8 years she was responsible for developing programs to facilitate scholarly research and the communication of that research through technology solutions. Rebecca has worked primarily in the scholarly publishing industry, including production leadership roles at Cell Press, Blackwell Publishing (now Wiley-Blackwell), and the open-access publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS).
Peter Binfield, PeerJ
Pete has worked in the academic publishing world for almost 20 years. Since gaining a PhD in Optical Physics, he has held positions at Institute of Physics, Kluwer Academic, Springer, SAGE and most recently the Public Library of Science (PLoS). At PLoS he ran PLoS ONE, and developed it into the largest and most innovative journal in the world. He is a respected authority in the academic publishing and Open Access worlds and has made numerous presentations to industry and academia. He is currently a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) as well as being on the Advisory Committee of the MedicineX conferences. He is passionate about academic publishing and believes that publishing needs to be in service to the academic community to best facilitate the rapid and broad dissemination of research findings.
Robert Kiley, The Wellcome Trust
Robert Kiley is Head of Digital Services at the Wellcome Library, and currently acting as Head of Wellcome Library.
Currently, Kiley is playing a leading role in the implementation of the Trust’s open access policy and as such is responsible for liaising with publishers with regard to the Trust’s OA policy, and overseeing the development of the Europe PubMed Central repository. Robert also acts as the Trust’s point of contact for eLife, the new top-tier, open-access research journal, launched in 2012 with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust. Away from open access related activities, Kiley is also responsible for developing the infrastructure to supports the Wellcome Library’s strategy to provide free, online, universal access to the Library’s unique and important collections. Kiley is a qualified librarian and an Associate Member of CILIP.
Currently, Kiley is playing a leading role in the implementation of the Trust’s open access policy and as such is responsible for liaising with publishers with regard to the Trust’s OA policy, and overseeing the development of the Europe PubMed Central repository. Robert also acts as the Trust’s point of contact for eLife, the new top-tier, open-access research journal, launched in 2012 with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust. Away from open access related activities, Kiley is also responsible for developing the infrastructure to supports the Wellcome Library’s strategy to provide free, online, universal access to the Library’s unique and important collections. Kiley is a qualified librarian and an Associate Member of CILIP.