UniBio Press. Working to increase researcher visibility, acquire a sustainable business model, and maintain autonomy

UniBio Press Working to increase researcher visibility, acquire a sustainable business model, and maintain autonomy UniBio Press Director / The Zoological Society of Japan Secretary-General Yuko Nagai

The Zoological Society of Japan Herpetological Society of Japan Ornithological Society of Japan UniBio Press Palaeontological society of Japan Japanese Society of Mammalian Ova Research Mammalogical Society of Japan

We are equal Most smaller societies except the Zoological Society of Japan Societies work together to disseminate each journal to the world Not a Big deal - each journal has a presence And, we are working to acquire a sustainable business model and keep our autonomy

SPARC Japan Launched by National Institute of Informatics (NII) in 2003 with support from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Under a MOU between ARL and NII Advancing scholarly communication through collaboration among the NII, university libraries, and academic societies 45 Journals (30 societies, 9 subject areas) selected as partners Encouraging gold or green journals Highly recommending IR friendly policy

Challenges to Japanese Scholarly Publishing Not only effecting smaller societies but also bigger societies Based on history, governmental policy Not native English speakers

1. Japanese situation Japanese researchers produce 12% of world's academic content and 80% of this is published in foreign journals. Adapted from : Masamitsu Negishi, Problems in applying bibliometric indexes to research evaluation and their implications to researchers behavior, Pharmaceutical Library Bulletin, V.49, No.3, pp. 176-182, 2004.7 (in Japanese)

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2. Japanese Situation Government subsidizes Academic Societies: -for printing books -for a long time -for disseminating Japanese journals to the world Total = $5,351,000 (2007) Application 207 Adoption 108

Not Competitive Which journals have quality content? Difficult to evaluate and assess Because of this... The journals which are chosen are mostly the same.

Good journals in Japan Receiving funding means a journal is good Societies in Japan seek to receive funding every year, and, have no interest in what is more important for the journals. Because they can publish their journal without thinking about the greater challenges

Comparison Income for the Crustacean Society (US) Journal sales $24,000 Subscription $43,532 Membership fees $48,572 BioOne $17,680 Other $13,016 Jeffrey Shields. The Journal of Crustacean Biology: Publishing a specialty journal. Presented at BioOne Publishers and Partners Meeting April 7, 2007.

Comparison Income for the Zoological Society of Japan Journal Sales $500 Subscription $25,000 Membership fees $230,000 BioOne $20,000

3. Japanese Situation Jstage supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency Jstage has been supporting Japanese societies, but Not XML (post PDFs only) Tagging title, author, abstract, reference only Contents can not be converted to new standard DTDs

Free Access Many Journals on Jstage are Free without understanding concept of OA Not Open Access but Free access From around 2004, these societies say We publish our journal to disseminate to the world using OA

The Result Almost all Japanese journals are smaller Smaller journals are published by using member fees Japanese societies have no idea about selling their journals Some journals are still invisible to the world

UniBio NII and UniBio have held 32 seminars to disseminate accurate information on the present status of Scholarly Communication for Japanese societies.

UniBio Press For disseminating our journal content to researchers across the world From invisible to visible Select specialized collection Trust librarians to support academic journals

Thank you Yuko Nagai nagai@unibiopress.org