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ARE CHEMICAL JOURNALS TOO EXPENSIVE AND INACCESSIBLE?

A WORKSHOP SUMMARY TO THE CHEMICAL SCIENCES ROUNDTABLE

Ned D. Heindel, Tina M. Masciangioli, and Eva von Schaper, Editors

Chemical Sciences Roundtable

Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology

Division on Earth and Life Studies

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This study was supported by Research Corporation under Grant GG0066, the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant DE-AT01-04ER15535, the National Institutes of Health under Grant N01-OD-4-2139 (Task Order 25), and the National Science Foundation under Grant CHE-0328197.

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CHEMICAL SCIENCES ROUNDTABLE

Co-chairs

F. FLEMING CRIM (NAS),

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

MARY L. MANDICH,

Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ

Members

PAUL T. ANASTAS,

Green Chemistry Institute, Washington, DC

PATRICIA A. BAISDEN,

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

MICHAEL R. BERMAN,

Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, VA

RICHARD BUCKIUS,

National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

LEONARD J. BUCKLEY,

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, VA

CHARLES P. CASEY (NAS),

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

ARTHUR B. ELLIS,

National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

TERESA FRYBERGER,

Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC

JEAN H. FUTRELL,

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

PAUL GILMAN,

Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC

ALEX HARRIS,

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

SHARON HAYNIE,

E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, DE

NED D. HEINDEL,

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

CAROL J. HENRY,

American Chemistry Council, Arlington, VA

MICHAEL J. HOLLAND,

Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC

CHARLES T. KRESGE,

Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI

GEORGE H. LORIMER (NAS),

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

PAUL F. MCKENZIE,

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, New Brunswick, NJ

WILLIAM S. REES,

Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC

GERALDINE L. RICHMOND,

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

MICHAEL E. ROGERS,

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

JEFFREY J. SIIROLA (NAE),

Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN

DOTSEVI Y. SOGAH,

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

WALTER J. STEVENS,

Department of Energy, Washington, DC

FRANKIE WOOD-BLACK,

ConocoPhillips, Houston, TX

National Research Council Staff

KAREN LAI, Research Associate,

Christine Mirzayan Graduate Fellow (August-December 2004)

TINA M. MASCIANGIOLI, Program Officer

ERICKA M. MCGOWAN, Research Associate

DAVID C. RASMUSSEN, Project Assistant

DOROTHY ZOLANDZ, Director

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BOARD ON CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY

Co-chairs

ARNOLD F. STANCELL (NAE),

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (emeritus)

A. WELFORD CASTLEMAN, JR. (NAS),

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Members

PAUL T. ANASTAS,

Green Chemistry Institute, Washington, DC

DENISE M. BARNES,

Independent Consultant, Snellville, GA

ANDREA W. CHOW,

Caliper Life Sciences, Mountain View, CA

MARK E. DAVIS (NAE),

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

JEAN DE GRAEVE,

Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium

MILES P. DRAKE,

Air Products & Chemical Company, Allentown, PA

CATHERINE C. FENSELAU,

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

GEORGE W. FLYNN (NAS),

Columbia University, New York, NY

MAURICIO FUTRAN (NAE),

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, New Brunswick, NJ

LOU ANN HEIMBROOK,

Merck & Company, Inc., Rahway, NJ

ROBERT HWANG,

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

JAY V. IHLENFELD,

3M Research & Development, St. Paul, MN

JAMES L. KINSLEY (NAS),

Rice University, Houston, TX

MARTHA A. KREBS,

Science Strategies, Los Angeles, CA

WILLIAM A. LESTER, JR.,

University of California, Berkeley, CA

GREGORY O. NELSON,

Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN

DONALD PROSNITZ,

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

ELSA REICHMANIS (NAE),

Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ

MATTHEW V. TIRRELL (NAE),

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

National Research Council Staff

KAREN LAI, Research Associate,

Christine Mirzayan Graduate Fellow (August-December 2004)

TINA M. MASCIANGIOLI, Program Officer

ERICKA M. MCGOWAN, Research Associate

CHRISTOPHER K. MURPHY, Program Officer

SYBIL A. PAIGE, Administrative Associate

DAVID C. RASMUSSEN, Project Assistant

DOROTHY ZOLANDZ, Director

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Preface

The Chemical Sciences Roundtable (CSR) was established in 1997 by the National Research Council. It provides a science-oriented apolitical forum for leaders in the chemical sciences to discuss chemistry-related issues affecting government, industry, and universities. Organized by the National Research Council’s Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, the CSR aims to strengthen the chemical sciences by fostering communication among the people and organizations—spanning industry, government, universities, and professional associations—involved with the chemical enterprise. One way it does this is by organizing workshops that address issues in chemical science and technology that require national attention.

In October 2004, the CSR organized a workshop on the topic, “Are Chemical Journals Too Expensive and Inaccessible?” This workshop provided a forum to discuss the publication of chemistry journals within the larger context of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal publishing. Issues relevant to the different stakeholders from academe, industry, and government were addressed, such as whether the needs of users of chemical information are being met; how librarians are responding to changes in STM publishing; the economics of publishing chemical journals; and whether the increasing cost of subscriptions is presenting obstacles to carrying out research in chemistry and chemical engineering. As part of this activity, the unique scientific journal needs of chemists and chemical engineers and the new approaches for addressing those needs—including “open access”—were explored.

This document summarizes the presentations and discussions that took place at the workshop, which have been edited and organized around the major themes of historical perspective, challenges of web publication, cost, access, archives, and open access. In accordance with the policies of the CSR, the workshop did not attempt to establish any conclusions or recommendations about needs and future directions, focusing instead on issues identified by the speakers.

Ned D. Heindel

Workshop Organizer

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Acknowledgment of Reviewers

This workshop summary has been reviewed in draft form by persons chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published workshop summary as sound as possible and to ensure that the summary meets institutional standards of objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the workshop charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this workshop summary:


Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee

Philip Barnett, City College of New York

Gordon Tibbitts, Blackwell Publishing Inc. (US)

Marc H. Brodsky, American Institute of Physics

Claude F. Meares, University of California-Davis

Carol Carr, University of Pennsylvania

Jack Halpern, University of Chicago


Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they did not see the final draft of the workshop summary before its release. The review of this workshop summary was overseen by C. Herb Ward, of Rice University. Appointed by the Division on Earth and Life Studies, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this workshop summary was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this workshop summary rests entirely with the authors and the institution.

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On October 25-26, 2005, the Chemical Sciences Roundtable held a workshop to explore issues involving those who use and contribute to chemical literature, as well as those who publish and disseminate chemical journals. As a follow-up to the workshop, a summary was written to capture the presentations and discussions that occurred during the workshop. As a forum to discuss chemistry journals within the larger context of scientific, technical and medical journal publishing, the workshop covered whether chemists and chemical engineers have unique journal needs and, if so, whether these needs are being met in the current journal publishing environment. Workshop participants also tackled how open access publishing might be applied to the chemical literature, such as to provide authors more freedom to distribute their articles after publication and allowing free access to chemical literature archives.

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