The importance of scholarly information in the research process

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The importance of scholarly information in the
research process

• Endre Béky
• Account ManagerELSEVIER B.V.

Date April 14, 2009
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Introduction
Introduction

• Dissemination, by scientific publishers, of high
  quality scientific output across the globe is a
  crucial part of research
• In recent years the move from paper to electronic
  content delivery has drastically changed
  researchers time-spending
• Researchers are able to spend significantly less
  time on searching for relevant content and at the
  same time have access to a wider range of content
• At the same time the increase of usage clearly
  positively affects the quantity and quality of
  scientific output
• Comparing macro-economic and demographic data
  with the uptake of usage and scientific output
  enables decision-makers to analyze the
  productivity and efficiency of their investments
• Elsevier has invested heavily in the increase of
  productivity and efficiency of researchers all
  over the world through the ScienceDirect
  platform, Scopus and many other highly
  specialized products

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Elsevier is the leading ST publisher with a
market share of 20-25
Introduction

• 1,000 new editors per year
• 18 new journals per year

• gt500,000 article submissions per year

• 200,000 referees
• 1 million referee reports per year

• 8 million articles now available

• 40-90 of articles rejected

• 10 million researchers
• 4,500 institutions
• 180 countries
• gt300 million downloads per year
• 2.5 million print pages per year

• 7,000 editors
• 70,000 editorial board members
• 6.5 million author/publisher communications per
  year

• gt250,000 new articles produced per year
• 180 years of back issues scanned, processed and
  data-tagged

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Elsevier invests significantly to service its
Academic, Government and Corporate clients in the
most efficient way
Introduction
Author Gateway and Elsevier Editorial
Systems 15 million
ScienceDirect Scopus Scirus eNewsletters and
alerts gt200 million
eJournal Backfiles eReference Works 40 million
Electronic Warehouse 15 million
Production Tracking System 5 million
Estimated cumulative investment since 2000
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Elsevier is the leading STM journal publisher in
Ukraine with a 17.5 paper market share
Introduction
Publications at Elsevier in Ukraine
2007 Market share of Articles in Ukraine Indexed
on Scopus
Citations received (2004-2007)
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Research is like running a marathon
Introduction
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The training and physical fitness of the athlete
Macro-economics
Haile Gebrselassie Born 18-04-1973 Nat.
Ethiopian
Haile finishing first in the 2007 marathon of
Berlin in a new world-record of 2
hours 4 minutes and 26 seconds
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Economic growth in Ukraine is above UK, however
RD Spendand of researchers can be improved
Macro-economics
Source CIA world book of facts 2007, UNESCO, All
values are against GDP(PPP)
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The per capita RD spend shows room for
improvement
Macro-economics
2006 RD-spend/Capita
2006 GDP/Capita
1.5 X
1.8X
4.1X
1.2 X
1.9 X
3.2 X
7.5 X
1.9 X


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Low and Medium developed countries can
significantly increase their performance in RD
by increasing their investment per Capita to the
UK-GDP/Capita ratio
Source CIA world book of facts 2007, UNESCO, All
values are against GDP(PPP)
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To win a marathon a good position at the start is
crucial
comparing countries research performance
Ukraine
Czech Republic
Hungary
Spain
UK
US
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International rankings still show a huge lead for
UK and US universities
comparing countries research performance
2006
2007
Ukraine
Hungary
Czech Republic
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
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Ukraine share of articles indexed on Scopus has
declined to 0.34 while neighbours share has
grown, a trend shared by UK and US
comparing countries research performance
Average share of articles published worldwide
Average Growth 96-01 02-06
Ukraine 3.3 -2.1
Hungary 2.8 5.2
Czech Republic 5.2 7.2
Spain 4.2 8.7
Article output market shares derived from
The UK and US contribute 32.3 of world articles
but representing only 5.5 of the world population
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The quality of your shoes
comparing countries research performance
Source www.basf.com
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To win in RD, Elsevier provides the best
equipment
comparing countries research performance
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Electronic access to large volumes of content has
significant influenceon the article output
growth of countries worldwide
comparing countries research performance
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The rapidly increasing usage of SD further
explains the sharp increasein of articles
published
comparing countries research performance
Meant for whitepaper
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The rapidly increasing usage of SD further
explains the sharp increasein of articles
published
comparing countries research performance
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Developing countries have a larger benefit from
electronic access tohigh quality content than
developed countries
comparing countries research performance

• Historically UK has large access-levels to
  content, making the transition from paper to
  electronic small in terms of additional
  availability
• In Poland the transition from paper to electronic
  content opened up access to a much larger volume
  of content
• In China the amount of content available before
  the launch of SD was insignificant compared to
  the amount available today

Low development countries
4.5x faster growth
Access growth accelerator
2.3x faster growth
High development countries
1.9x faster growth
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Which shoes to wear?
Golf
Running
Basketball
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Thank You