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A Short History of Interactive Open Access Publishing in Ng Te I R H a S I C L T In ng te i r h a s i c l t i b v u e P O s p s Years e e 10n c c A A short History of Interactive Open Access Publishing In ng te i r h a s i c l t Anniversary Publication celebratingi b v u 10 Years of Interactive Open Accesse Publishing P O s p s Years e e 10n c c A Imprint A short History of Interactive Open Access Publishing is published by Copernicus Publications. © Authors 2011. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Printed in Germany. Heimert Print GmbH ISBN 978-3-942169-03-5 www.copernicus.org 2 10 Years Interactive Open Access Publishing Table of Contents Don Dingwell { Greetings from the EGU President 5 Paul Crutzen An Amazing Journey 7 Arne Richter The "Mainz All-In-One Model" for 9 Open Access Publishing in Sciences EGU OA Publications Family 2011 15 Ulrich Pöschl On the origin and development of 17 Interactive Open Access Publishing Martin Rasmussen Interactive Open Access Publishing 29 becomes successful and sustainable References 39 3 Don Dingwell EGU President 4 10 Years Interactive Open Access Publishing The European Geosciences Union is Greetings from the pleased to have been able to play its EGU President { historic role in the development of Interactive Open Access Publishing. Young scientists today are presented with real high-quality alternatives for the choice of their medium of publi- cation. That is the accomplishment of IOAP. On behalf of the EGU I extend the warmest congratulations to all of the essential players that have been and continue to be involved in the pro- cess. 5 Paul Crutzen Advisory Board Member of the EGU Journals ACP, ESD, and GMD Chemistry Nobel Laureate 1995 6 10 Years Interactive Open Access Publishing It has been an amazing journey: over An Amazing Journey a short period of merely a decade, a { novel idea originating from Uli Pöschl and developed by an enthusiastic group of hundreds of scientists, created a new way of scientific publishing and com- munication, initially covering the fields of atmospheric chemistry and physics. The example has since been followed by many successors in other disciplines, with more to come. I congratulate and thank Uli Pöschl and Arne Richter for their pioneering work for the scientific community. 7 Arne Richter EGU Executive Secretary 2002-2009 Copernicus Managing Director 1988-2007 8 10 Years Interactive Open Access Publishing The "Mainz All-In- After the EGS Office had been estab- One Model" for Open lished in 1988, both the number of Access Publishing in { Sciences members and of participants at the general assemblies were growing rapid- ly as well as the number of journals as- sociated with the Society but yet hand- led and issued by different commercial publishers. At that time we experienced how to or- ganize and to run large meetings and conferences and, in addition, how to or- ganize the editorial support and how to produce and to market refereed scien- tific journals. Thus, from 1994 onwards we were able to organize our meetings at venues we selected ourselves and in the way we wanted it to be done, and, at the same time, to launch our first journal of our own making: Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics. To ensure that all operations involved were as profes- 9 The "Mainz All-In-One Model" for Open Access Publishing in Sciences sional but as inexpensive as possible, we developed our own internet-based software for the meeting and for the editorial support offices, respectively. By 2000 we were also able to typeset, to layout and to print our own journals in different styles and manners. At the end of the 1990s three major concepts were discussed regarding the advancements in the publication of our scientific journals: 1. While all publications were still in the classical style and on paper, we experienced to extend our software to include a publication of all ar- ticles also directly on the internet – even in an easy-to-read, one- column, landscape format – to be downloaded directly on the PC. And right from the beginning it was ar- 10 10 Years Interactive Open Access Publishing gued that the internet must be free of charge for reading and down- loading of manuscripts. 2. In parallel it was suggested that the classical way of publishing fi- nal articles hard and fast should be replaced by an open forum of out- right discussions in which everyone should be able to take part. 3. Finally, it was proposed that the classical blind and anonymous way of review – occasionally even by the same pre-selected yet anonymous referees – should be replaced by an open and eponymous review proce- dure, even by including the public. In 2000 several meetings took place at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, by invitation of Paul Crutzen and Ulrich Pöschl together with 11 The "Mainz All-In-One Model" for Open Access Publishing in Sciences a dozen and more scientists, in order to discuss the launch of a new journal in atmospheric chemistry and physics based on the concepts outlined above. The outcome was the “all-in-one” Mainz model for open access publishing of the EGS/EGU journal “Atmospheric Chem- istry and Physics (ACP) & Discussions (ACPD)” including a public peer-review and interactive public discussion of all articles submitted for publication, first in the discussion part (ACPD) and then in the final part (ACP). Up-to-date the EGU publishes 11 jour- nals in accordance to this two-stage concept and 3 journals in accordance to the one-stage concept followed also by the commercial publishers. All our journals are, however, published on the internet true to the motto “free to read and free to download for everyone!” 12 10 Years Interactive Open Access Publishing For the near future of open access pub- lishing I look forward to see: that the discussion part will include “real” discussions about the actual topic of a paper rather than only “public comments”; a publication also of the final ar- ticles not only for PCs but also for tablet PCs and smartphones; no page charges for authors, since the income is generated by using the EGU platforms for paid-up in- formation, services and adverts of the many companies, organiza- tions and institutions associated with the geosciences instead (see other public platforms on the in- ternet), true to the motto: Free to Read, Free to Download and Free to Publish! 13 The "Mainz All-In-One Model" for Open Access Publishing in Sciences For their future in Open Access Publish- ing we wish the EGU and Copernicus all the very best and “fair winds and follow- ing seas”! 14 10 Years Interactive Open Access Publishing EGU OA Publications Atmospheric Advances in Annales Atmospheric Measurement Family 2011 Geosciences Geophysicae Chemistry Techniques Volume 4 2nd EGU Alexander von Humboldt Conference and Physics “The role of Geophysics in Natural Disaster Prevention” Issue 7 Volume 29 2011 Editors: P. Fabian and P. Lagos Number 8 Year 2011 Volume 11 Volume 14 { Number 14 Year 2008 Year 2011 European European EUROPEAN Geosciences Geosciences EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES GEOSCIENCES UNION Union Union UNION www.earth-system-dynamics.net Climate of the Past Geoscientific Instrumentation, www.climate-of-the-past.net Methods and Data Systems Biogeosciences Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2011 www.biogeosciences.net Volume 7 Issue 1 2011 Volume 8 Issue 7 2011 Earth System Volume 2 Issue 1 Dynamics 2011 EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES UNION European EUROPEAN Geosciences EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES Union GEOSCIENCES UNION UNION Geoscientific Hydrology and Natural Hazards and Model Development Nonlinear Processes Earth System Earth System Volume 1 in Geophysics Number 1 Sciences Sciences 2008 Volume 15 Volume 18 Number 7 Volume 11 Number 3 Year 2011 Number 8 Year 2011 Year 2011 European Geosciences Union European European American Geosciences Geosciences EUROPEAN Union Geophysical GEOSCIENCES Union Union UNION Geology, geophysics and tectonics Ocean of Northeastern Russia: a tribute to Leonid Parfenov The Cryosphere Science Solid Earth 3 68 www.ocean-science.net Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2011 6 2 4 11 12 16 15 14 64 5 Volume 7 13 Issue 3 Volume 5 60 Number 2 2011 7 17 Year 2011 18 56 1 Regional Overview 8 Proterozoic Paleogeography 52 19 20 9 Regional Sesimicity 10 Okhotsk Plate 144 150 156 162 168 174 180 186 Modied from: Nokleberg et al., OF3428.PS, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1998/of98-136/data/postscr/ Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series Volume 4 2009 www.solid-earth.net • Editors: D. B. Stone, K. Fujita, P. W. Layer, E. L. Miller, A. V. Prokopiev, and J. Toro EUROPEAN European European European GEOSCIENCES Geosciences Geosciences Geosciences UNION Union Union Union 15 Ulrich Pöschl ACP Chief Executive Editor EGU Publications Committee Chair 16 10 Years Interactive Open Access Publishing On the origin and The idea of interactive open access development of publishing originated from classical lab Interactive Open {Access Publishing talk on a Friday afternoon. Frustrated about an apparent lack of clarity and coherence in a series of earlier studies related to my ongoing investigations of ozone reacting with soot in the atmos- phere, I dropped into the office of my colleague Michael Weller, a bioanalytical chemist working next door at the Tech- nical University of Munich. It seemed that traditional journal publishing and peer-review were just not sufficient for thorough quality assurance, construc- tive discussion and integration of scien- tific knowledge, because many studies did not build on related earlier publi- cations, and some were not even self- consistent even though they had been published in reputable journals with high citation impact factors.
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