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14 Electronic Journal Publishing at the American Chemical Society
14 Electronic Journal Publishing at the American Chemical Society
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publishing is a unique enterprise with the following characteristics: · Small number of subscribers: 1,000 to 10,000 subscribers per title. · High costs for quality control, which includes peer review and technical editing.
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To remain competitive, publishers publish more material by introducing new journal titles in response to emerging fields and publish more papers in existing titles.2 Figure 14.2 shows the growth in the ACS journal-publishing program from 1980 through 1997, in terms of both articles and pages published per year. During this 17-year period, the number of articles grew 114 percent and the number of pages published increased by 229 percent; this is an average annual growth rate of 6.71 percent and 13.5 percent, respectively.
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7.5 a~ ~ 6.5 cn a~ 1 40000 1 20000 1 00000 80000 60000 40000 / 1 1 1 1 / . I T T I I I T I T I I T l 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 FIGURE 14.3 Growth in length of average article in ACS journals, 1981 to 1997.
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Author page charges and advertising revenue have also been minor sources of income, but subscription sales have been and continue to be the major source of revenues for STM publishers. Tables 14.1 and 14.2 show the sources of revenues and expenses, respectively, in 1996 for ACS journal publishing operations.3 Subscription sales constitute over 80 percent of revenues and of these revenues, 90 percent are from institutional sales and 10 percent from sales to ACS members.
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CHRONOLOGY OF ACS ELECTRONIC JOURNAL DEVELOPMENT Like most "overnight successes" in the entertainment world, the success of electronic journals did not occur overnight. For the ACS, the ability to make its journals available on the World Wide Web in a cost-effective manner is the consequence of 25 years of investment in computer-based systems and staff training.
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1993 Supporting Information5 for the Journal of the American Chemical Society made available worldwide via Gopher. 1995 Supporting Information for all ACS journals made available via Gopher.
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205 In any particular field, experienced practitioners are aware of the prestigious journals in that discipline, and publishing in those journals is more desirable and generally more rewarding to one's career than publishing in journals of lesser prestige. Although an author may feel peer review has treated his work badly at one time or another, peer review is widely held by the scientific community to be valuable if not essential.
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1995 1995 1995 1996 1996 1996 1997 1997 1997 1998 1998 FIGURE 14.4 Total pages (in millions) transmitted from the ACS Publications Division World Wide Web server, 1995 to 1998.
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The DOI affords a mechanism for a persistent link to digital objects, such as Web articles or their components, and is inherently a lookup mechanism.8 It is likely that a minimal set of metadata will be made available with each DOI that will provide for identification of digital objects. It is also likely that abstracting and indexing services will include DOIs for items they cover and thus provide a much richer set of metadata for locating digital information.
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Stephen Heller: A second item for Journals. I think there is a Chemical Abstracts Web site home page indicating that there are a couple of dozen journals that Chemical Abstracts right now does process.
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From discussions I have had over the last couple of years with a number of folks librarians, publishers, ACS people I do want to commend ACS for really taking the lead on this and looking out for the interests of its membership. One librarian, in a discussion about the societies versus commercial publishers, said with considerable heat and no small amount of vigor that ACS is a business, and one should not distinguish between ACS and commercial publishers.
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