new publishing paradigms and their impact on a not-for-profit organisation
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New Publishing Paradigms and their impact on a not-for-profit organisation. Shaun Hobbs Database Publishing Director CAB International. CAB International. Mission to serve agriculture and the life sciences globally Generation, delivery and use of knowledge in the applied life sciences - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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New Publishing Paradigms and their impact on a not-for-
profit organisation
Shaun Hobbs
Database Publishing Director
CAB International
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CAB International• Mission to serve agriculture and the life
sciences globally • Generation, delivery and use of knowledge in
the applied life sciences• 40 member government stakeholders• Established since 1913• CABI Bioscience and CABI Publishing
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CABI locations worldwide
CABI Bioscience CentreCABI Regional Centre CABI Publishing office
CAB International HQ
Project staff
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CAB International office
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CABI Bioscience
• Scientists based worldwide
• Core biodiversity skills, particularly in fungi and insects
• Sustainable Agriculture projects
• Biocontrol emphasis
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CABI Publishing
• Books and Reference Works • Bibliographic Databases
- CAB Abstracts - Subsets, including Forest Science Database, Forestry
Abstracts, Agroforestry Abstracts
• Primary and Review Journals • Compendia and multi-media CD-ROMs
• Information Science
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Our Brand
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CONTENT FUNCTIONALITY CONTEXT
CUSTOMER VALUE---CUSTOMER VALUE---CUSTOMER VALUE
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Search and navigation
• 11.5 billion pages on the indexable web
• Deep web estimated to be up to 500 times greater
• Broad search engines necessary
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Science-specific search and navigation
• Publisher’s websites
• Google Scholar
• Abstracting and Indexing databases
• A need to cover electronic and print material
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CAB Abstracts• 90 years unbroken activity
• Premier agricultural database
• Agriculture, environment and forestry
• Access to nearly 5 million references from 1973 to 2005
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What we do• 230,000 abstract records per year • From 43,000 documents • Around 9000 journals, books, conferences,
etc, screened each year (2000 unique serials) • Material from 125 countries in over 50
languages • Maximise linkage to full text
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CAB Abstracts Development
• Customer focused development of niche
• Increased coverage - water, food
• Increased journal coverage
• Indexing new electronic only web publications
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Scientific Content• Increased scientific information
available
• Primary journals still important
• Move to online access (55% of STM information sales in Europe)
• Interest in digitising archival literature
• Open Access repositories
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Content development
• Publishing in print and electronic media
• Partnerships with other organisations, e.g. Chinese Agricultural University
• Digitising Archives
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CAB Abstracts Archive
• CABI has produced print abstract journals since 1913
• 600 volumes, produced over 60 years• Forestry Abstracts (1939-1972)• Review of Agricultural Entomology (1913-1972) • Plant Breeding Abstracts (1930-1972)
• Over 1.8 million archival records
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Content Repositories
• Often free access
• Pre-print and post-print
• arXiv, PubMed Central, Public Library of Science - Biology
• University repositories
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Content Developments
• CAB Abstracts indexes difficult-to-get material
• Users expect easy link to electronic full text
• CAB Abstracts Full Text Select will digitise, host, archive and link difficult content
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CAB Abstracts Full Text Select
• Advances in drying of wood. NTI papers from COST seminars• Japanese-European workshop on Cellulose and functional
polysaccharides• Prospects for high value hardwood timber species in the dry
tropics of N Australia• Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology• Journal of Plant Pathology• Journal of Soils and Crops
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Scientific Information in Context
• CABI’s Compendia
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Sharing information
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Web 2.0 - Architecture of participation
• Collaboratories
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Conclusions• Major changes in the publishing environment• Digitisation of old and new material • Multiple publishers• Information for free• New search tools• Analytical tools • Sharing information/data• Examples given of sustainable developments from a
not-for-profit organisation.