SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PUBLISHING

1- REI Journal2- Organization of a journal3- Current Changes

Sylvie Rochhiarochhia@unice.fr

1-Revue d’Economie Industrielle

• Created in 1977 and specialized in Industrial Economics

• Theoretical analysis and descriptions of economic realities

• Supported by National Center of Scientific Research (InSHS-CNRS) and University Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS)

• Well rated in French rankings for Economics and Management

Issues from 1977 until 2010 are freely available on line

Publication 4 issues / year including 1 special edition

Manufacturing Renaissance (2014/1)Ecosystèmes et modèles d’affaires (2014/2) VARIA (2014/3)Transition énergétique (2014/4 )

• Publisher : De Boeck Supérieur• E-Publisher: Cairn• English version on Cairn International

Electronic publishing • Open Access for issues from 1977 to 2005:http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/revue/rei

• Open Access for issues from 2006 to 2010:http://rei.revues.org/?lang=en

• Open Access from 1977 to 2010 on Revel, the platform of UNS

http://revel.unice.fr/

• Subscription or pay per view from 2011 to 2014:http://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-industrielle.htm

• English version of selected papers since 2006http://www.cairn-int.info/journal-d-economie-industrielle.htm

REVEL

• Revel is the publishing platform for social sciences and humanities journals of UNS 15 open access journals (sometimes with waiting period)

• European Review of Industrial Economics and Policy stresses the necessity of new reflections on industrial policy in a changing and global world.

Created by 3 journals: Revue d’Economie Industrielle (France), Economia e politica industriale and l’Industria (Italy)

http://revel.unice.fr/eriep/

Organization of REI

• Publication Director : Richard Arena

• Management Committee : Richard Arena, Christian Longhi, Sylvie Rochhia (UNS)

• Editorial Committee: decentralized and interactive committee

• Scientific Committee

• Network of reviewers collaborative platform to evaluate manuscripts

2-Editorial and Publishing Process

• The editorial process is managed through an e-platform : submissions, selection of reviewers, submission reviews, editing decisions

• OJS (Open Journal System) used by REI since 2010

http://manuscrits.revues.org/index.php/rei/login?source=%2Findex.php%2Frei%2Fuser

Weaknesses of the subscription modelWe are producers and consummersAnd we have chosen to outsource scientific diffusion

to publishersA public good in private hands ??

Rebellion of the Journals : Open Access movement • Open Access Publishing (gold road)

publication fees• OA-Self Archiving Publishing (green road)

immediate access and no publication fees

Other current Problems1) Problem for libraries and universities : paper journals have become too expensive

-constant growth in research output-continuous journal price increases-static or falling library budgets

2) Problem for scholars : access to journals at any time and any place

Digital switchover

3-Growth of Open Access Media• OA : essential in a knowledge economy

Increase of scientific research diffusionIncrease of scientific interaction

Finch Report (2012): application in UK

• OA : solution to the budget problem of libraries

• Transitional period: co-existence of 3 economic models

• Subscription economic model• Open Access with Green Road • Open Access with Gold Road (author pays)

What does OA imply ?

• Change in knowledge diffusion : Contents are costlessly observable (open-

contents)

• Change in the scientific evaluation process:1st) Diffusion of contents 2nd) Evaluation and selection (citations index)

• Change in models of research editing:“publication fees,” “processing fees,” or “author-side

fees.” arrival of « overlay » journals

Open access

Conclusion

• Crisis of traditional edition in Social Sciences and Humanities

• News forms of academic communications

• Diversity and complementarity of publishing models