Have a personal or library account? Click to login
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone: the changing landscape of UK learned society publishing Cover

You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone: the changing landscape of UK learned society publishing

By: Rob Johnson and  Elle Malcolmson  
Open Access
|Oct 2024

References

  1. 1Angela Cochran, “Plan S Cited as a Major Reason Many Self-Published Societies Moved to Commercial Partners,” Tweet, Twitter (X), 9 July 2023, https://twitter.com/acochran12733/status/1678055514167562247 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  2. 2Quan-Hoang Vuong, “Plan S, Self-Publishing, and Addressing Unreasonable Risks of Society Publishing,” Learned Publishing 33, no. 1 (2020): 6468, DOI: 10.1002/leap.1274 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  3. 3Phill Jones, “A Report on the Future of Independent and Scholarly Publishing Webinar by the Scholarly Kitchen,” Learned Publishing 33, no. 1 (2020): 4346, DOI: 10.1002/leap.1273 (accessed 4 September 2024); Elina Late et al., “The Role of Learned Societies in National Scholarly Publishing,” Learned Publishing 33, no. 1 (2020): 5–13, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1270 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  4. 4Aileen Fyfe, “From Philanthropy to Business: The Economics of Royal Society Journal Publishing in the Twentieth Century,” Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 78, no. 1 (3 August 2022): 11542, DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2022.0021 (accessed 4 September 2024); Aileen Fyfe, “Self-Help for Learned Journals: Scientific Societies and the Commerce of Publishing in the 1950s,” History of Science 60, no. 2 (1 June 2022): 255–79, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0073275321999901 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  5. 5Sally Morris and Sue Thorn, “Learned Society Members and Open Access,” Learned Publishing 22, no. 3 (2009): 22139, DOI: 10.1087/2009308 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  6. 6Rob Johnson and Mattia Fosci, “On Shifting Sands: Assessing the Financial Sustainability of UK Learned Societies,” Learned Publishing 28, no.4 (2015): 274281, DOI: 10.1087/20150406 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  7. 7Jane Winters and Aileen Fyfe, “Learned Societies, Humanities Publishing, and Scholarly Communication in the UK,” in Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (The MIT Press, 2020), https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/4933/chapter/625181/Learned-Societies-Humanities-Publishing-and (accessed 4 September 2024). DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11885.003.0034
  8. 8Richard Dodenhoff, “Why I Value Non-Profit Society Scholarly Publishing,” Learned Publishing 33, no. 1 (2020): 6970, DOI: 10.1002/leap.1275 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  9. 9Jon Treadway and Sarah Greaves, “Plan S and Purpose: The Future Direction for UK Learned Societies,” Learned Publishing 36, no. 2 (2023): 32325, DOI: 10.1002/leap.1513 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  10. 10Emilie Aimé, Erika L. Newton, and Catherine Hill, “Publishing Perspectives from the British Ecological Society: Partnership, Community, Collaboration, and Innovation,” Learned Publishing 33, no. 1 (2020): 5256, DOI: 10.1002/leap.1268 (accessed 4 September 2024); Edith Holmes, “Society Publishing: It’s All about the Community You Serve,” Learned Publishing 33, no. 1 (2020): 61–63, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1269 (accessed 4 September 2024); Jones, “A Report on the Future of Independent and Scholarly Publishing Webinar by the Scholarly Kitchen.”
  11. 11Treadway and Greaves, “Plan S and Purpose.”
  12. 12Jones, “A Report on the Future of Independent and Scholarly Publishing Webinar by the Scholarly Kitchen.”
  13. 13Vuong, “Plan S, Self-Publishing, and Addressing Unreasonable Risks of Society Publishing,”; Treadway and Greaves, “Plan S and Purpose.”.
  14. 14Andrea Chiarelli et al., “Accelerating Scholarly Communication: The Transformative Role of Preprints,” (Zenodo, 24 September 2019), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3357727 (accessed 4 September 2024); Richard Sever, “Biomedical Publishing: Past Historic, Present Continuous, Future Conditional,” PLOS Biology 21, no. 10 (3 October 2023): e3002234, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002234 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  15. 15Alicia Wise and Lorraine Estelle, “How Society Publishers Can Accelerate Their Transition to Open Access and Align with Plan S,” Learned Publishing 33, no. 1 (2020): 1427, DOI: 10.1002/leap.1272 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  16. 16Dan Pollock and Heather Staines, “News & Views: Is the Real Value of Our Industry Shrinking?,” Delta Think (blog), 17 January 2024, https://deltathink.com/news-views-is-the-real-value-of-our-industry-shrinking/ (accessed 4 September 2024).
  17. 17Fei Shu and Vincent Larivière, “The Oligopoly of Open Access Publishing,” Scientometrics 129, no. 1 (1 January 2024): 51936, DOI: 10.1007/s11192-023-04876-2 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  18. 18Aimé, Newton, and Hill, “Publishing Perspectives from the British Ecological Society’; Late et al., ‘The Role of Learned Societies in National Scholarly Publishing.”
  19. 19Bodo Stern and Johan Rooryck, “Introducing the ‘Towards Responsible Publishing’ Proposal from cOAlition S,” Plan S (blog), 31 October 2023, https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/introducing-the-towards-responsible-publishing-proposal-from-coalition-s/ (accessed 4 September 2024).
  20. 20Aileen Fyfe, “Le Società Scientifiche Hanno Bisogno Delle Riviste e Viceversa?,” Recenti Progressi in Medicina 114, no. 3 (1 March 2023): 15456, https://www.recentiprogressi.it/archivio/3981/articoli/39639/ (accessed 4 September 2024).
  21. 21Johnson and Fosci, “On Shifting Sands: Assessing the Financial Sustainability of UK Learned Societies,” 275.
  22. 22Rob Johnson, “Financial Sustainability of UK Learned Societies – List of UK Learned Societies,” 24 September 2015, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1476266.v1 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  23. 23Research England, “Units of Assessment – REF 2021,” REF2021 Research Excellence Framework, Worldwide, https://2021.ref.ac.uk/panels/units-of-assessment/index.html (accessed 4 September 2024).
  24. 24Late et al., “The Role of Learned Societies in National Scholarly Publishing.”
  25. 25Fernanda Beigel et al., “OLIVA: The Scientific Production Indexed in Latin America and the Caribbean. Disciplinary Diversity, Institutional Collaboration, and Multilingualism in SciELO and Redalyc (1995–2018),” SciELO Preprints, 22 August 2022, DOI: 10.1590/SciELOPreprints.4637 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  26. 26Bo-Christer Björk and Timo Korkeamäki, “Adoption of the Open Access Business Model in Scientific Journal Publishing: A Cross-Disciplinary Study,” College & Research Libraries 81, no. 7 (3 November 2020), DOI: 10.5860/crl.81.7.1080 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  27. 27Johnson and Fosci, “On Shifting Sands: Assessing the Financial Sustainability of UK Learned Societies,” 280.
  28. 28David Crotty, “Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market,” The Scholarly Kitchen (blog), 30 October 2023, https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/10/30/quantifying-consolidation-in-the-scholarly-journals-market/ (accessed 4 September 2024).
  29. 29Crotty, “Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market.”
  30. 30“British Pound Effective Exchange Rates for 1983 to 2024 from the Bank for International Settlements,” Pound Sterling Live, https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/bank-of-england-spot/historical-effective-exchange-rates/GBP-history (accessed 4 September 2024).
  31. 31Björk and Korkeamäki, “Adoption of the Open Access Business Model in Scientific Journal Publishing.”
  32. 32Johnson and Fosci, “On Shifting Sands: Assessing the Financial Sustainability of UK Learned Societies.”
  33. 33David A. Reinstein, “The Strain on Academic Publishing,” LSE Impact of Social Sciences (blog), 23 October 2023, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/10/23/the-strain-on-academic-publishing/.
  34. 34Jennifer Rowley et al., “Factors Influencing Researchers’ Journal Selection Decisions,” Journal of Information Science 48, no. 3 (1 June 2022): 32135, DOI: 10.1177/0165551520958591 (accessed 4 September 2024).
  35. 35“Uptake of Open Access,” STM (blog), International Association of STM Publishers, https://www.stm-assoc.org/oa-dashboard/uptake-of-open-access/ (accessed 4 September 2024).
  36. 36Charlie Rapple and Christopher Daley, “How Has COVID-19 Affected Research Funding, Publishing and Library Budgets? Or, Finding the Truth in the Gap Between Perception and Reality,” The Scholarly Kitchen (blog), 24 March 2021, https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/03/24/how-has-covid-19-affected-research-funding-publishing-and-library-budgets-or-finding-the-truth-in-the-gap-between-perception-and-reality/ (accessed 4 September 2024).
  37. 37Alicia Wise and Lorraine Estelle, “Learned Societies, the Key to Realising an Open Access Future?,” LSE Impact of Social Sciences (blog), 24 June 2019, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/06/24/learned-societies-the-key-to-realising-an-open-access-future/ (accessed 4 September 2024).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.664 | Journal eISSN: 2048-7754
Language: English
Submitted on: May 11, 2024
Accepted on: Jul 8, 2024
Published on: Oct 15, 2024
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

© 2024 Rob Johnson, Elle Malcolmson, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.