A presentation at the the Taylor & Francis Editorial Indabas in Midrand and Cape Town on 20 & 24 March 2015 on peer review. Presentation by Dr David Green, the Global Publishing Director of Taylor & Francis.

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8. So, do we take authors seriously who, rather than submit to a journal, post in
their online repository? We do need to take this seriously. If we don’t work
harder for them, they will do it themselves and this is a serious threat. We
harm ourselves (engender hostility, encourage attempts to undermine us
among very competent people) when we are seen to try to squash the power
of the citizen publisher. We (society and publisher) need to work harder to
retain the status quo and justify our (long-held) position. In sum, journals will
not become online repositories!
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14. Ultimately want research to have an impact – on future research and the
building of a corpus of knowledge ultimately to have Practical Outcomes:
Drugs, treatments, Policy Changes, Public Understanding, quality of life.
But first the research needs to be visible and people need to engage with it –
other researchers, policy makes practitioners, general public.
Going to talk about two elements of this impact funnel – shifts in the metrics
available to measure engagement and impact and then shifts in T&F’s
marketing to focus on increasing visibility and engagement – hopefully leading
to greater impact for the research published with us.
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16. Example of detailed article level
The scores are calculated using a proprietary algorithm but a based on
combined of both the amount and type of mentions, so news articles are
counted differently to tweets.
on altmetric.com
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20. Every author should be encouraged to promote and tweet their article, supply a
video abstract with article, for promotion via academic and research networks,
and public engagement via public and social media – e.g. Kudos project to be
extended to all journals in 2015
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21. Thanks to our partnership with JournalMap, we’re at the forefront of geo-
semantic search – the ability to search for geographical locations that
research is about in journal articles across a map
• 3 E&A journals now indexed on JournalMap + marketing campaign
• Capturing research locations for articles on submission and including them
in article for XML so that they can be appropriately indexed by JM
• Looking at ways to integrate JournalMap onto TFO
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE - plan to add faceted search - the ability to
refine searches by facets like content type, discipline, pub. date – ease
discovery, drive usage. Looking to deliver early next year.
Federated search? – Other search options that we are looking into are for the
ability to search across our different content platforms. Each platform
remains independent, with bespoke features to suit the content in which it
supports, but with the added benefit for users of being able to search across all
platforms at once.
IIP - The Issues in Progress capability - flexibility in the way issues are displayed
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22. In this, the first phase, we have:
• Daily alerts > Multiple open Issues at one time.
Before the end of the year Editors will be able to:
• Specify the order in which articles are displayed, whether chronological order (as
default), page order or a specified order (which is captured in the Issue XML).
• Specify subject headings in an issue that articles can sit under.
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23. South African Journal of Plant and Soil was one of our first trial candidates for
JournalMap. The editorial team also assisted by providing English translations
for the locations contained in the older Afrikaans articles in its archive.
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29. The term Open Access was coined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) IN
December 2001, which originated within the framework of an event of the Open
Society Institute (OSI).
Concerns re longevity / long term curation of Platinum
Berlin Declaration
The Berlin declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge of 22 October
2003
Drew on the Declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the ECHO
Charter and the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
The Directory of Open Access journals contain 8,622 open access journals since its
launch in 2003.
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31. African APC via NISC for co-published journals
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33. - Authors’ views on peer review
- Authors’ views on open access
- Authors’ views on re-use of work
- Authors’ views on publishing licenses
American Publishers Assn ½ life study about 2b released. Our data is
interesting and shows a lot of variation by subject, e.g., half lives in Philosophy
are far shorter than those in, e.g. materials science, perhaps because key
findings in philosophy are released in monograph form, and articles tend to be
more like short reports. Contributing these data to a British Academy ½ life
study, which is being funded by HEFCE – expecting report in early 2014
Anecdotally our data are similar to other publishers.
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37. Copyright – updated last month, will continue to review as part of development
work.
Trends in research area – most viewed articles, top tens of the year, most
shared via social media: these will all continue via subject bulletins and other
marketing initiatives.
SEO and keywords – will cover in guides to authors early 2015.
Understanding the submission process, preparing a paper - revamping these
as part of Author Services web overhaul to make it more visual and easier to
browse for non-native English speakers.
Language Editing Service – early 2015 (TBC)
Promoting their work - continuing to highlight and push this.
Usage alerts - in development (Author Product Group).
Formatting articles – refreshing IFAs coupled with better linking between TFO
and Author Services (part of redevelopment project). Authors asking for clear
links to templates (and as many available as possible).
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39. This data has been taken directly from Ulrich’s web and is the percentage of
active, peer-reviewed, academic journals from each country that also appear in
the JCR.
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42. Articles with at least one author from each country have been counted
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55. Journalysis
• Community-driven rating and comments site.
• Journals can be ‘claimed’ by individuals, and metric details provided by
Publishers or Editors.
• Users wishing to register can only do so with a valid academic email
address
SciRev
• Community-driven rating and comments site provided by authors.
• Journal data and metrics provided by Publishers and Editors.
Publons
• Community-driven rating and comments site.
• Journal listings contain reviews related to that journal only, no journal
metrics displayed.
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56. HelpMePublish
• The app is free but requires a subscription fee to make proper use of it - $5
per subject area.
• Community-driven rating and comments site provided by authors – must be
verified researchers to provide ratings.
• Journal data and metrics provided by Publishers and Editors.
• Can only search by journals through hierarchical lists, not free text search.
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