Who is this seminar for? For everyone with an interest in publishing strategy, business and market development in social science, humanities and stm publishing

 

 Program

 

08.30            Registration

 

09:30             Welcome and introduction - Chair Jayne Marks, Vice President,

                      SAGE Publications, Inc.

 

09:45             Social sciences and humanities - are they really different?

                       Research and information habits in the socials sciences and  

                       humanities: findings from the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey

                       Laura Brown, Managing Director, Ithaka, S+R

                       Are humanists and social scientists headed to the same essentially digital 

                       future for research sources, and if so, at what rate? Ithaka S+R's most recent

                       faculty survey provides an excellent source for understanding disciplinary

                       practices, attitudes, and needs and how they have changed over the last

                       decade. This talk will examine disciplinary perceptions on key issues for

                       publishers such as:      

                       Attitudes towards the transition away from print, which are becoming are

                       more accepted for scholarly journals even as questions are being raised 

                       about monographs

 

                       The relative importance of new research practices

 

                        Discovery and other key workflow patterns and perceptions

 

                        Views among authors on dissemination and preservation of their work,

                        including how they choose scholarly journals in which to publish and

                        the role of repositories

 

                        Perceptions about the future role of the scholarly society

                        Comparisons will be provided with previous waves of the Ithaka S+R faculty

                        survey, dating back to 2000.

 

10:15               Doing data in the social sciences and humanities: links to and from   

                        published  work 

                        Peter Burnhill, Director, EDINA, University of Edinburgh

                        How should data feature in the scholarly publication process, and who     

                        should be doing what to ensure ease and continuity of access to those data

                        that  underpin statements in published work? Data drive their value as  

                        potential as evidence; being digital provides opportunity for valued-added

                        curation but also liabiity for loss; being network-accessible is opportunity

                        for linkage. Secondary analysis of the evidential value of data underpins

                        scholarship but how should data feature in scholarly publication? There is

                        threat of loss but also much opportunity for value-added curation and linkage.

                        Who should be doing what to ensure ease and continuity of access to data

                        used for published work? Just how different is 'data' across the disciplines - or 

                        is it all just digital?

 

10:45               Break

 

11:15               Publishers Experience and Expectations

                        Panel: Challenges of publishing for the social sciences and humanities

                        Chair: Diane Cogan, Diane Cogan Publishing Services

 

                        Challenges for Journals in the Social Sciences &  

                        Humanities

                        Sarah Phibbs, Journals Publishing Director, Social Science &

                        Humanities, Wiley-Blackwell

                        There is an assumption in the journals publishing business that

                        what happens first in STM will follow in social science and

                        humanities. This presentation sets out to examine key

                        challenges for social science and humanities in relation to

                        scholarly communication, the differences and similarities with

                        STM.

 

                        Half full or half empty? eBooks, the incomplete revolution

                        Alan Jarvis, Global Director, Social Science Books, Routledge

                        Factors in academic publishing in the humanities and social sciences, eBooks   

                        have failed to have the impact on book publishing that ejournals have had on 

                        journals. This presentation emphasises how relative diversity within books (in

                        terms of both content and audience) has slowed the progress of ebooks, and

                        looks at prospects for the future.

 

                        Publishing for HSS and STM: Differences of Kind or of Degree?

                        Geraldine Billingham, Editorial Director, Berg Publishers

                        The term Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) covers a wide academic

                        territory and successful publishing across these fields requires flexibility in

                        product types, formats and pricing. While HSS and STM overlap, the

                        differences between them are not just of degree but also of kind. Even so, the

                        challenges of publishing in HSS may be as much to do with scale as they are 

                        to do with subject matter or academic culture.

 

                        Validating Scholarship in the 21st Century

                        Rebecca Cullen, Senior Online Product Development Manager, Oxford University Press

                        The rise of online self-dissemination and new scholarly repositories has led to

                        an increasing amount of research content bypassing traditional publishing

                        channels. What is the role of the publisher in validating this content? A review

                        of the forthcoming Oxford Bibliographies Online program as an attempt to

                        address this question.

 

13:00                Lunch

 

                        New dimensions for business

14:00               Exploring online delivery for social scientists

                        Martha Sedgwick, SAGE

                        SAGE Research Methods Online is a research tool that integrates multiple book,

                        reference and journal content types focused on an area central to the     

                        social sciences. This presentation will share results from the market research

                        that was perforemd for this product development (due to be launched later in

                        2010) as we explored how our research methods book content should be

                        delivered online to our social science users.

                      

14:30               Digging into Data: Electronic publications in Archaeology

                        Julian Richards, Director of 'Internet Archaeology', University

                        of York

                        The online peer-reviewed e-journal Internet Archaeology has

                        been publishing archaeological research on the web since

                        1996. Rich text and image databases allow readers to 'drill

                        down' from the text and to test existing interpretations and to

                        make new ones. Increasingly we have also used web-based

                        GIS to allow archaeologists to provide full interactive access to

                        the spatial dimension of their research. This presentation will

                        use exemplars developed under the AHRC and Mellon

                        Foundation funded LEAP projects  (http://ads.ahds.ac.uk

                        /project/leap/) to discuss the potential and challenges of this

                        approach.

 

15:00              Break

 

                        New business models

15:30               Commercial opportunities for social science publishers:

                        Insights and development at Google

                        Santiago de la Mora, Google

 

16:00               Licensing of digital Content to Intermediaries

                        Wulf von Lucius, Lucius & Lucius

                        Parallel to the licensing of content to libraries or providers like 

                        Amazon or Apple there are various platforms or service 

                        providers, which can be partners in the dissemination of

                        contents. The paper describes the platform PaperC, a new

                        start-up in Germany, which has developed an interesting model

                        combining cost free reading with the charge for all other uses

                        (like print out, edit, arrange, earmark etc.). The model has

                        been developed with support of the University of St. Gallen

                        (Switzerland) and the Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft Berlin.

                        The developers as well as the intended main user group are   

                        students. PaperC is hence a model in the difficult B to C

                        Market.

 

16:30               Wrap up and close, Jayne Marks, Sage

 

Registration Fee

Members              €400

Non-Members      €500