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Achieving universal access A publishers
perspective INASP symposium, Oxford, 5th
November 2004
Desmond Reaney Head of Business Development
Journals Sales Marketing desmond.reaney_at_iop.o
rg www.iop.org
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Agenda

• Challenges
• Approaches (other publishers)
• Results (IOP)
• More information..

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Institute of Physics

• An international not-for-profit learned
  society, founded 1874 as the Physical Society of
  London
• Professional body for physicists
• Mission is to serve physics, pure and applied
• 37 journals, 50 new books (pa) 8 magazines
• Over 90 of journal book sales outside UK
• Over 3.5 million EJ accesses per month

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Challenges

• Meeting expectations
• Lack of understanding (on both sides)
• Lack of technical infrastructure
• Piracy
• Open access

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Approaches (other publishers)

• Free archives and other material
• High discount consortia licences
• Publication of open access journals
• Participation in various programmes such as
  AGORA, HINARI, eIFL and PERI by many of
  the major publishers, both commercial and
  not-for-profit, e.g
• BMJ, Blackwell, CABI, Elsevier, Kluwer,
  Lippincott, Nature Group, OUP, Springer and
  Wiley

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Results (IOP)

• 1996 All IOP journals on the Web
• 1997 Free EJs to Africa
• 1998/1999 Hardship discounts to SE Asia
  South America
• 1998 - present Free New Journal of Physics
• 2000 - present RFBR Consortium Agreement
• 2001 - present DI line into China
• Oct. 2000 - present Free EJs
• 2001-04 eIFL (9 countries) / INASP workshop in
  Zimbabwe PERI programme (7 countries) /
  Tanzania Journal of Science / JHEP free to
  developing countries
• 2004 Cuba / Physical Biology Journal of
  Neural Engineering free to all

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More information..

• AGORA (Access to over 500 journals from
  scientific publishers in the fields of food,
  agriculture, environmental science and related
  social sciences)
• http//www.aginternetwork.org/en/
• Bioline International (Hosts developing country
  journals, many of which are available on an open
  access basis)
• http//www.bioline.org.br/
• BioMedCentral (Publishers of over 100 open
  access journals covering all areas of biology and
  medicine)
• http//www.biomedcentral.com/
• Directory of Open Access Journals (A directory
  of free, full text, quality controlled scientific
  and scholarly journals)
• http//doaj.org
• eIFL (Negotiates affordable subscriptions on a
  multi-country consortial basis, while supporting
  the enhancement of emerging national library
  consortia in member countries).
• http//www.eifl.net/
• Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT)
  (Supports publication of journals generated in
  developing countries)
• http//www.epublishingtrust.org/
• Highwire Press (Host for a large number of
  journals, many of which have open access
  policies)

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More information..(continued)

• HINARI (UN / WHO initiative to provide
  commercial medical journals free to licensed
  countries in the developing world)
• http//www.healthinternetwork.org/
• Human Info NGO (Development and basic needs
  CD-ROM libraries for developing countries)
• http//www.humaninfo.org/home_flash.html
• INASP (Supports print and electronic publishing
  (journals, books etc) for developing countries in
  many ways. Workshops, links..etc
• http//www.inasp.org/
• Los Alamos Preprint Archive (arXiv) (The
  original e-print server for physics)
• http//arxiv.org/
• PERI (Programme to facilitate access to
  international journals and to provide training
  and support in creating information)
• http//www.inasp.info/peri/
• Public Library of Science (Not-for-profit
  publishers of open access journals PLoS Biology
  and PLoS Medicine
• http//www.plos.org/