4. نرم مهارتهاینرم مهارتهای
Today’s librarians having professional
degrees in library and information
science is not sufficient unlike in the
past. There is demand for librarians
having multidimensional aptitude in the
areas of technical work, administrative
work and also in providing user
oriented services along with soft skills.
81. Aims to publish any article that meets the test
of scientific rigour.
– Technically sound in method and conclusions
– Peer review
Eschews any measure of importance or
impact in its editorial and peer review
process.
– no need for conceptual advance, novelty or impact
– negative results are accepted
– results with a narrow community of interest.
82. PLOS ONEPLOS ONELaunched in December 2006
In 2007 published 1,231 articles
Today largest journal in the World
– published over 60,000 articles
In 2012
– 23,464 articles published
– 60,000 reviewers from 154 countries
– 4000 articles from Chinese authors
– Over 2% of content in Pubmed
– >30,000 articles in 2013
83. PLOS ONEPLOS ONE criteria forcriteria for
publicationpublication The study presents the results of primary
scientific research.
Results reported have not been published
elsewhere.
Experiments, statistics, and other analyses
are performed to a high technical standard
and are described in sufficient detail.
Conclusions are presented in an appropriate
fashion and are supported by the data.
The article is presented in an intelligible
fashion and is written in standard English.
84. Published by Nature Publishing Group
Publishes in all areas of the natural
sciences
Impact factor 2.93, Acceptance rate
55%
fee USD 1,350.
Launched in 2011 (over 2500 papers
published)
– Currently over 200 papers per month
Cascades articles from other Nature
journals.
85. ))Mega) - journalsMega) - journals
AIP Advances (AIP) Impact factor 1.35, fee USD 1,350
BMJ Open (BMJ) Impact Factor 1.58, fee UKL 1,500
Open Biology (Royal Society), fee USD 0
Cell Reports (Cell Press) fee USD 5000
Biology Open ( Company of Biologists) fee USD 1,350
Springer Plus (Springer) fee USD 1135
Sage Open (Sage) fee USD 99
F1000 Research (Faculty of 1000) fee USD 1000
86. PeerJPeerJ An Open Access, peer-reviewed, scholarly
journal.
– Launched in 2013
Operates a 'Lifetime Membership' model.
– 3 Membership tiers, each conferring different
rights.
– Starting at USD 99.00
Encourages Open Peer-Review
– authors given the option to post the full peer-
review history of their submission alongside their
published article
157 articles published in 2013 (Sept)
87. PLOS CurrentsPLOS Currents PLOS Currents is an innovative, online
publication channel, peer-reviewed;
citable; publicly archived in PubMed.
A single, integrated direct-authoring
and publishing platform - complete
control over the formatting and
appearance of Author published work.
Streamlined peer review process
Submission reviewed in a matter of
days and published immediately after
editorial acceptance
88. Hindawi PublishingHindawi Publishing Publishing company based in Cairo,
Egypt.
In 2012, published more than 22,000
articles with total revenue of about
$13m.
This is about $600 per published
article.
results for the first half of 2012 show
revenues of $6.3m with a net profit of
$3.3m.
Profit margin of 52%. Much better than
89. Profit marginsProfit margins Elsevier: £724m on revenue of £2b —
36%
Springer‘s Science+Business Media:
£294m on revenue of £866m — 33.9%
John Wiley & Sons: $106m on revenue
of $253m — 42%
Academic division of Informa plc:
£47m on revenue of £145m — 32.4%
Apple’s best ever reported profit
margin was 24%. Exxon makes 6.5%.
90. Chinese authorsChinese authors
According to SCI
–In 2011, authors of 9.5% of scientific
papers indexed in SCI.
–More than a million papers published in
last decade.
Salaries, grants and promotions tied
to publication in SCI journals
Nearly 20% of papers published in
PLOS One in 2012
91. Beall's List of PredatoryBeall's List of Predatory
PublishersPublishers
Provision of funding to meet OA
costs has encouraged growth of new
OA journals
Last year's list included 23
publishers
and this year's has over 225,
evidence of the rapid growth in the
number of predatory journals and
publishers.
92. What authors need to look forWhat authors need to look for Serious reviewers? feedback from a qualified journal
editor?
Good copyediting? Self-archiving rights?
Effective distribution and active promotion of the journal?
A definite/known/knowable target audience?
Print-on-demand or print issue options?
Clear and attractive publication contracts?
Suitably-measured/meaningful impact factors? Indexed
journals?
Active link referencing? Supplementary data storage?
Reader feedback management?
93. SciELOSciELO
The database contains journals from
over 15 different countries in free
and universal access, full-text
format.
1.069Journals
30.190journal issues
444.056articles
Nearly 10,000,000 citations
94. Article-Level MetricsArticle-Level Metrics
Citations
–ISI, Scopus, Google Scholar, PubMed
Central, CrossRef
Article usage
–Page views, downloads
Media and blog coverage about the
article
Social tools
–Social bookmarks e.g. Connotea,