1. The Changing Journals
Landscape

2. From Transactions to
PLOSOne...

3. From Transactions...
• The nature of the early journal community
• Blog writers?
• Constraints of the medium

4. The growth of the
commercial journal
• From 17th to 20th century, mostly society
and independent journals
• Post war, the information society provides
opportunities for commercial players
• Consolidation - now 4 companies dominate

5. The ‘journals crisis’
• A captive market
• Price increases
• Increase in journal numbers and ‘bundling’
• Impact factors and control of evaluation of
scholarship

6. The internet - scholarship
goes digital
• Growth of digital
• Linking and interoperability
• Web 2.0 and community building (Nature)
• ‘Freemium’ models
• Adding content adding value

7. Quote Timmo Hannay

8. The emergence of
Open Access
• The Budapest Initiative - quote

9. Growth of OA
• OA journal business models
• Comparative growth figures - subscription
journals and OA (SOAP study)
• Commercial OA journals
• OA and the developing world

10. OA and impact
• Debate on whether OA increases impact

11. Digital Humanities
• Journals and books
• Research funding and affordability
• Linking data

12. PLOSOne - a disruptive
model
• Broad cross-disciplinary
• Splitting of technical and impact peer
review
• Linking of supplementary content
• Article as part of research in progress
• Commercial journals following this trend

13. Where to now?
• OA goes mainstream - but transitions are
difficult
• Protests against bundling
• Altmetrics
• Review of peer review