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IOPscienceMore than just an e-only experience
Tony O’Rourke
Assistant Director, Journals
IOP Publishing Ltd, Bristol, UK
SLA 2007, Denver CO.
tony.o’[email protected]
IOPscience Why change? What research have we done?
What are librarians saying? What’s the difference?
What does it replace? What’s in it for my institution? What will happen to my existing Journals
service? Why doesn’t IOP just collaborate with
other society publishers?
Why IOPscience? There are more than 5000 different institutions in
the world with a research interest in Physics Top 10% of institutions = 80% of papers
IOP has around 3500 institutions with access to IOP journals 103 countries
Mission of IOP Publishing: To disseminate a knowledge of Physics 3500 institutions access all IOP journals content 5000 research institutions access to all content
At a fair price
Tester feedback 1100 Board Members Large institutional customers Small to medium sized research
institutions Long tail
Easy searching Clean look Filtering improves discoverability RSS feeds Tag clouds – text rather than numbers More personalization
IOPscience v Current Model IOP’s current model: One Price
Institutions IOP Members Individuals (no e-access) No permanent electronic access
Print is the archive!
Other models Carnegie based classifications
USA, UK Difficult elsewhere
New Model IOPscience
All journals hosted on IOP’s journals platform
Database view of all 51 journals All content 1874-present
244,000+ articles (May 2007)
IOPscience can replace your existing service Does not replace A&I services
Predominantly IOP content
IOPscience Pricing Model Ability to pay Pricing Factors
Size of research – Physics, Mathematics, Astrophysics
Usage Location (country) Type of institution
A score to determine price band
IOPscience: How do you benefit? Fair pricing View all content
Not just subscribed journals 1874 onwards
Permanent access to subscribed years Lower price for archive customers
Optional print (deep discount)
IOPscience: How do you benefit? Better searching Better browsing Better retrieval of full text Better indexing of content Forward and backward citing Web 2.0 functionality
Tag clouds Clusters Personalization RSS feeds
Other content
IOPscience Beta version available now for testing Version 0.8 Fall 2007 Version 1.0 January 2008
Working with other publishers “Why doesn’t IOP collaborate with other
(society) scientific publishers?” AIP is our partner in North America Founder member of CrossRef Founder member of COUNTER Partner publishers (e.g. AAS) Scitopia…
