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København 22.4.2006
Giuliana Zotta Vittur
Enrico M. Balli
SISSAA success story in electronic scientific publishing
SISSA: the Miramare Campus
Founded in 1978, it is focused on two basic missions:
• promotion and development of culture and scientific top-quality research in the fields of physics, mathematics and neuroscience;
• training of young graduate students in pure and applied research, also for university teaching career.
SISSA
SISSA
Thanks to a small and flexible structure, SISSA is able to continually reshape its teaching and research programs to meet new scientific challenges and to attract substantial private and public research funds.
SISSA: the smallest university in Italy
Budget € 41,350,000
PhD Students 200
Master Students * 33
Professors 49
Researchers 19
Employees 84
Buildings sqm 11,889
* Master in Science Communication
10 m
SISSAInternational School for Advanced
Studies
The Research Sectors
Astrophysics
NeurobiologyHigh Energy Physics
Statistical and Biological Physics
Condensed Matter Theory
Cognitive Neuroscience
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Functional Analysis and ApplicationMathematical Physics
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
• 17° Century: first journals• 19° Century: peer review• After WW1: proliferation of journals• After WW2: book publishers enter the
market• 1980-1990: concentration of journal
publications in a few large companies • Big circulation of preprints
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Costs for libraries:
• More than 2 billion euros per year in subscription fees
• Shelves• Buildings• General costs
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
A good business for a publisher:
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Technological innovation:
• Availability of electronic formats for papers (TeX)
• Availability of electronic media to distribute preprints (e-mail)
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Creation of archives:
• 1991: Los Alamos National Laboratories (physics)
• 1992: SISSA (physics)
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Further technological innovation:
• 1991: World-Wide Web standard released by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
• 1993: alpha version of Mosaic released by Marc Andreessen at NCSA
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
The story goes on:
• 1996: SISSA creates JHEP, the first electronic, online only, Open Access Journal
• “A journal by scientists for scientists “
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Author Editor Referees
Editorial Office
WJ Software (+ Internet)
DB
Submission Report
Evaluation
Published!
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
The success of JHEP in numbers:
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
Submitted
Accepted
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Impact factor (ISI) in 2004:
JHEP 6.5
Nucl Phys B 5.3
Phys Rev D 4.6
Physics Letters B 4
Eur Phys J C 3.6
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
The success of JHEP became a problem:
• The number of published papers brings a huge increase in organization and costs (people, editorial services, telecommunications, servers…)
• Failure of the sponsor-based system• A new financial model is needed
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Partnership with IoP (Institute of Physics, UK):
• 2000: The subscription model (low price, open access for developing countries)
• 2002: JCAP (Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics)
• 2004: JSTAT (Journal of Statistical Mechanics)
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Success, again:
0
100
200
300
400
2002 2003 2004 2005
Submitted (J cap)
Accepted (J cap)
Submitted (J stat)
Accepted (J stat)
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Impact factor (ISI) in 2004:
JCAP 7.9
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
The story goes on:
• 2004: New Open Access Journals (Jcom, PoS)
• 2005: CERN task force on Open Access
• 2006: JINST (Journal of Instrumentation)
Scientific publishing
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Sissa Medialab:
• A spin-off company founded at the end of 2005
• 20 people in three areas (Journals, IT, science communication)
• Continues the tradition started in 1991
Journals by scientists for scientists
SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati