Rupal Malde, Food Science Journals Publisher,Elsevier Maynooth University Library, July 2016

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Innovations in Publishing
Initiatives from Elsevier
Miss Rupal Malde, Publisher, Food Science Journals
July 2016

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Some history
The printing press – 1439 Gutenberg and moveable type
The first academic journal - March 6,1665 Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society
Dissemination of content – (1997)
Electronic submission systems – Manuscript CentralTM, EES
(2004)

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Nothing happened for many years
Grew and grew – 2,500 journals, 30,000
books, 13,397, 561 articles
More and more journals used electronic submissions systems
Larger files were uploaded
Latex could be used
Scopus – http://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus
reviewers and Editors get access

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Then ……..
Web 2.0 came along and big things began to happen – linking, tagging,
authoring of pages, extensions (web as an application platform – Adobe
Reader, ActiveX) etc….

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http://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/content-innovation

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Audio slides
http://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/content-innovation/audioslides

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Interactive phylogenetic trees
http://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/content-innovation/interactive-
phylogenetic-trees

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New Journal Types
Micro-article journal
MethodsX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26OTWmbRHVI
Data in Brief - Data in Brief provides a way for researchers to easily
share and reuse each other's datasets by publishing data articles
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-in-brief/
SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today's
research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all
research domains. SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance
of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/softwarex/

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New Journal Types cont…..
New Negatives in Plant Science is an open access, peer reviewed, online journal that
will publish hypothesis-driven, scientifically sound studies that describe unexpected,
controversial, dissenting, and/or null (negative) results in basic plant sciences.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/new-negatives-in-plant-science/

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