Panos Georgiou  Papadatou Fiori  Library & Information Center, University of Patras, Greece

 Introduction  Scholarly Publishing in Greece  E-publishing tools & services  The OJS case  The University of Patras/LIC – OJS case  Future developments/Trends  Conclusions PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

 Transition period to digital publishing  Uncertain economic environment  This presentation attempts a detailed analysis of current scholarly publishing landscape in Greece  Work & data based on Greek Directory of Digital Resources (pilot) + OA in Greece report (ongoing project, 2009 first edition – 2 nd to come January 2011) PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

Articles by authors affiliated with Greece in International Peer Review Journals SourceArticles / Year Source: WoS, 20/9/ SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENCES ARTS & HUMANITIES TOTAL Source: Scopus, 20/9/ TOTAL

 Mainly published in international journal titles  Publishing in Greek language and titles: language limitations, audience & market size until recently focus on social & political sciences, economy, literature, arts & culture Now days it’s a bit more attractive for researchers to publish in Greek e- publications (can communicate their works to a wider audience)  The last 5 years : significant increase in e-publishing activity which followed up the fast development and success of Institutional Repositories  Books: Exclusively print format  At the end of 2009 only 3 publishers with initiatives on e-books were reported - On May 2010 this number raised to 16! PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

Greek scientific journals overview SubjectTotal titlesPeer review titles Titles in Digital format (full text) STM Humanities Total Source: Scholarly Publishing & Open Access in Greece Report, Georgiou, P. & Papadatou, F. - Updated 1/9/2011

 35 journals in DOAJ (21 on April 2010 – 14 on March 2009) PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin OA Online Full Text Publication Types & Subjects Subject Online Full Text PublicationsOA Publication Types TotalOAOA e-Journals OA Hybrid Journals (Print & Web) OA Journals Digital Archives STM Humanities Total

PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin  Current major players in Digital publishing & OA: societies and academic institutions  Academic Institutions were pioneers in OA with IRs and Digital Collections  Private publishers e-publishing focus mainly in medicine and law - OA: It’s not an issue for them yet!  Main funding sources for OA : public funding and sponsoring Secondary sources: membership and ads for societies  On the other hand subscriptions for Scholarly Journals is not a considerable income (maybe with the exception of some medicine and law titles)

 OJS used in 27% of e-journals publications PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin Platform/Sof tware TotalE-journalsHybrid journals Journal archives Custom Commercial927 Drupal211 DSpace88 HTML Joomla 624 OJS181143

 79 % of publications are indexing their content on article level and offer at least some basic search & retrieval services  The rest 21% just provide issue lists (with links to the whole full text of the issue)  Almost half of publications (45%) provide “full” search & retrieval services: browsing & searching articles  According to known data less than 30% of publications use a standard metadata schema PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

 Used in 27% of e-journals cases  OJS cases represent 27% of publications that provide “full” search & retrieval services: browsing & searching articles and About 46% of publications that adopt a known metadata schema for article indexing  OJS publications “ethnography” 11 by Societies  4 using academic/libraries infrastructure  5 using private publishers’ infrastructure 4 by Research Institutions 3 by Academic Institutions (all by Libraries) PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

 Greek interface maintained by University of Patras, Library & Information Center (LIC)  National Documentation Center (NDC) has made a lot of customization (reading tools etc) PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

 Project: digital collections of historical Greek literature journals (19 th and beginnings of 20 th century  Need for a journal archiving system Serve also as publishing system for future e-publishing purposes OAI-PMH compliant Need for easy indexing/cataloging procedure  Choose OJS for testing 2007 (…after some experimentation with custom applications) PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

 OJS could fulfill our requirements but “…need for easy indexing/cataloging procedure…”?  Need for customization  Version (!) Implemented a “cataloging” web form With appropriate changes in code  Skip editorial procedures  Modification of database  Creation pdf files from image files We created a short of propriety “OJS-archiving system” Unfortunately NOT a plug-in!! PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

Kosmopolis (2007)  14 journals, about items – Project completed in 2007   The first Greek collection to Europeana! PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

Pleias (2009) 36 various 19 th and early 20 th century journals Currently about items An on-going project – Archive keeps updated with new content on a project basis model through various collaborations with content holders pleias/ pleias/ PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

 Daniilida Old journals published in the area of Patras Currently only 488 items On-going project (further funding is needed!) PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

 Dexameni: a Greek Journals STORage system A pilot project to implement JSTOR practice for Greek titles Currently two (philosophy) journals  Axiologika ( ) and Deukalion ( )  Moving to Pasithee platform next year PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

 OJS is used widely as well as other custom applications. More use, investment and development on OJS is expected in the short term  A lot of OA e-publishing projects by academic libraries have been approved by government for the next 3 years  It is expected that more than 40 journals published by Academic institutions and scientific societies will be published through OJS platforms run by libraries  A lot of customization and new tools are also expected to be developed, but it is uncertain what portion of this work would be disseminated to the community due to the implementation framework of these projects (e.g. tenders for private sector to provide OJS as a service to libraries !!!!) 5th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 7-9 November 2010, Lisbon

 OJS customization needs: Upatras-LIC is especially interested in  Authorities, e.g. author names for retrospective indexing  Fast article submission form e.g. for “editors”/catalogers for massive/easy import of articles, skipping all or selected editorial procedures if needed Also annotation, commends & other web 2.0 features… Examine potential ways for contribution through PKP European network PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

 E-publishing & OA have gained significant reputation and acceptance the last years in Greece  Main barriers to further improvement Funding/Supporting Gold OA publications  Due to the crisis is seems quite unlikely to achieve some improvement on that! Greek market size & language limitations Current academic & research evaluation system and procedures (e.g. number of citations, publications to high impact factor journals Lack of national and/or institutional OA policies  Need for more initiatives in digitization and indexing of back files, old journals etc 5th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 7-9 November 2010, Lisbon

 Need for more automation and standardization in e- publishing procedures  More work needed on policies issues on advocacy and lobbying for OA inside the scholar community and funding bodies budget re-allocation towards OA (e.g. OA author fees) to use crisis as an opportunity to promote OA While at the same time we need to apply sustainable business models for OA journals  Academic libraries keep a key role in OA as well as in scholarly communication issues (and publishing!) in Greece PKP | International Scholarly Publishing Conference, 2011, September 2011, Berlin

5th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar, 7-9 November 2010, Lisbon Thank you