NEW PUBLISHING MODELS

The advent of web-based publishing, combined with dissatisfaction with the existing scholarly communication system, has led to the development of new publishing models.

Open Access Journal Publishing
The aim of open access journal publishing is making high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly content available free on the web. Find out more...
Digital Repositories / Author Self-Archiving
Repositories are intended to complement, rather then replace, other forms of publication. They can contain preprints, postprints, and various forms of "gray literature" (conference papers, datasets, etc.). Thus one may often publish in a standard, high-impact journal, and yet also place the article or some form of it in a freely available public archive. Typically, digital repositories are set up and maintained by an institution like a university for its scholarly community, although disciplinary repositories like arXiv.org, for the physics, mathematics, computer science and quantitative biology communities also exist.

PubMed Central is another example of a discipline-based archive. Those who have received funding from the NIH are encouraged to deposit their post-prints into PMC; step-by-step instructions have been developed for the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).

The primary goals of institutional repositories are:
- Increased access to research: Material placed in repositories is freely available to anyone with a web connection, and can be discovered with search engines like Google. Thus, placing your work in a repository greatly increases its potential exposure and impact.
- Long-term preservation: Implicit in the concept of an institutional repository is a commitment to long-term preservation and storage. The repository is intended as a permanent, stable home for works of scholarship.
The University of Illinois has recently launched IDEALS, an institutional repository for the U of Illinois scholarly community. To find out more about institutional repositories, see Clifford Lynch's Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age.

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THE ISSUES COST OF JOURNALS COPYRIGHT ACADEMIC PROMOTION THE RESPONSE PUBLISHING MODELS WHAT the U of ILLINOIS IS DOING WHAT YOU CAN DO ARTICLE PLACEMENT SC NEWS LINKS	NEW PUBLISHING MODELS The advent of web-based publishing, combined with dissatisfaction with the existing scholarly communication system, has led to the development of new publishing models. Open Access Journal Publishing The aim of open access journal publishing is making high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly content available free on the web. Find out more... Digital Repositories / Author Self-Archiving Repositories are intended to complement, rather then replace, other forms of publication. They can contain preprints, postprints, and various forms of "gray literature" (conference papers, datasets, etc.). Thus one may often publish in a standard, high-impact journal, and yet also place the article or some form of it in a freely available public archive. Typically, digital repositories are set up and maintained by an institution like a university for its scholarly community, although disciplinary repositories like arXiv.org, for the physics, mathematics, computer science and quantitative biology communities also exist. PubMed Central is another example of a discipline-based archive. Those who have received funding from the NIH are encouraged to deposit their post-prints into PMC; step-by-step instructions have been developed for the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS). The primary goals of institutional repositories are: Increased access to research: Material placed in repositories is freely available to anyone with a web connection, and can be discovered with search engines like Google. Thus, placing your work in a repository greatly increases its potential exposure and impact. Long-term preservation: Implicit in the concept of an institutional repository is a commitment to long-term preservation and storage. The repository is intended as a permanent, stable home for works of scholarship. The University of Illinois has recently launched IDEALS, an institutional repository for the U of Illinois scholarly community. To find out more about institutional repositories, see Clifford Lynch's Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age.