Scientific Publishing. From Vanity to Strategy

185 Pages·2010·1.111 MB·English

by  Hans Roosendaal, Kasia Zalewska-Kurek, Peter Geurts and Eberhard Hilf (Auth.)

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Scientific Publishing:
From vanity to strategy
H E. R ,
ANS OOSENDAAL
K Z -K ,
ASIA ALEWSKA UREK
P A.T .M. G
ETER H EURTS
AND
E R. H
BERHARD ILF
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First published in 2010
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978 1 84334 490 2
© Hans E. Roosendaal, Kasia Zalewska-Kurek, Peter A.Th.M. Geurts
and Eberhard R. Hilf, 2010
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List of tables and figures
Tables
2.1 Proposed roles of the business model and their
sources 11
Figures
3.1 Modes of strategic positioning 30
4.1 The distribution of the modes in the MESA+
sample 42
4.2 The distribution of motives to publish 45
4.3 The distribution of motives for choosing journals
when submitting articles 46
4.4 Predicted production of knowledge in terms of
papers produced per year for the MESA+ sample
as a function of strategic interdependence and
organisational autonomy 48
5.1 Tetrahedron representing the market forces in
scientific information 63
5.2 Tetrahedron representing the functions in
scientific information 64
5.3 Functions in scientific information 65
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7.1 The subscription model 119
7.2 Open access model 121
7.3 Optional business model with added-value
services 123
8.1 Different types of integration 128
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About the authors
Hans E. Roosendaal is professor of strategic management at
the University of Twente in the Netherlands. His
specialisation is in strategic knowledge and information
management.
Educated as a physicist, in 1974 he joined the University
of Bielefeld (Germany) as faculty staff. Between 1983 and
1998 he served Elsevier Science in various management
positions as publisher and in corporate strategy and
acquisitions. He joined the University of Twente in 1998 as
chief information officer, and has also served as a member of
the executive board of the university.
He has authored journal and book articles on both surface
physics and scientific information. The articles on scientific
information focus on strategic aspects of the transformation
to a digital environment.
Hans is chairman of the Foundation natuurkunde.nl, a
foundation supported by the Dutch physics community with
the aim of making physics more attractive to young people.
To this end, the foundation operates two websites:
www.natuurkunde.nl and www.sciencespace.nl.
He served on a number of evaluation committees on
digital libraries, e-science and e-learning, and from 2004 to
2008 was a member of the BMBF standing evaluation
committee on D-Grid. Since 2006 he has been a member of
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the Standing Accreditation Committee of the Zentrale
Evaluations- und Akkreditierungsagentur, Hannover,
Germany.
Kasia Zalewska-Kurek is assistant professor at the
University of Twente in the Netherlands. She holds a
master’s degree in sociology from the University of Wroclaw,
Poland, and has specialised in the sociology of small urban
and rural communities. Her master’s thesis dealt with the
quality of life in a small town, describing relations between
the perceived quality of life and a number of external
influences such as economic, cultural and social factors
(derived from Manuel Castells’s theory of urban
subsystems).
In 2004 she joined the University of Twente to pursue a
PhD, and in 2008 defended her dissertation, entitled
‘Strategies in the production and dissemination of
knowledge’. The dissertation answers questions on the
dynamics of and conditions affecting the production of
knowledge; it also applies the concept of the business model
to the research environment.
Her research interest is in the strategic management and
organisation of scientific research: in the research process,
including production and transfer of knowledge, and in the
management of research institutes and universities. She has
co-authored articles and a book chapter on the management
of the production of knowledge and scientific information.
Peter A.Th.M. Geurts is associate professor for research
methods and methodology of the social sciences at the
University of Twente in the Netherlands. He specialises in
survey methods at large, and more specifically in such
methods in the context of contingent valuation and
international comparisons. Educated in mathematical
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sociology, he joined the University of Twente as faculty staff
responsible for the teaching of research methods in public
administration.
He has authored books on methodological issues
concerning questionnaire construction and research
proposals, and books and journal articles on scientific
information, mixed methods, contingent valuation of
welfare change and issues of social and political
participation in democracies.
Since the beginning of the 1990s he has conducted and
published several studies on the impact of ICT, more
specifically the internet, on publishing models in science and
developments in scientific and business communication. His
primary concern here is the theoretical and empirical
underpinning of the transitions taking place under the
influence of the internet.
Peter is a member of advisory committees for research
grants of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO) and a reviewer for several scientific
journals.
Eberhard R. Hilf is CEO of the Institute for Science
Networking Oldenburg associated with the Carl von
Ossietzky University. The institute works on innovative
services for the management of scientific information in the
digital age.
Eberhard’s interests are digital scientific publication
services: refereeing, printing on demand, metadata,
distribution, networking and semantic analysis, with open
access as a prerequisite.
Educated as a theoretical physicist (Hamburg, Munich,
Berlin and Frankfurt), he was a research assistant at the
University of Würzburg and professor at the Universities of
Düsseldorf, Darmstadt and Oldenburg, with sabbaticals at
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Seattle, Jerusalem, New York and Orsay/Paris. He has
organised many scientific conferences in both physics and
science information management.
Eberhard was on the scientific advisory boards for HAL,
the CNRS Central Archive, the National Data-Centre FIZ
Karlsruhe, the National Networking of Chemistry e-
Learning and the Virtual Scientific Library ViFaPhys
(Technical Information Library TIB Hannover), and a
member of the Action Committee for Publication and
Scientific Communication (EPS European Physical Society).
He has served in the DINI German Initiative for Network
Information, and co-founded and chaired the IuK Initiative
for Information and Communication of the German
Learned Societies, and the Action Group for the reform of
the Urheberrechtsgesetz for science and academic learning.
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