Publishing: What Authors Ought to Know, by Paul Royster
Copyright for Scholarly Authors, by Sue Ann Gardner
Mechanics of the Manuscript: What Happens Next? by Linnea Fredrickso

Fredrickson, Linnea

Gardner, Sue Ann

Royster, Paul

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Sue Ann Gardner
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Academic Integrity Week
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
September 21, 2016
Paul Royster, Sue Ann Gardner, and Linnea Fredrickson
Publishing: 
What Authors Ought to Know
Paul Royster
Scholarly Communications, UNL Libraries
You just want to sign whatever
and get it over with!
Months or years of research, long nights of writing 
and revising, weeks of waiting for a decision –
But do you know who you are 
dealing with?
Publishers by number of articles, 2015
1. Elsevier BV   (652,734) 
2. Springer Nature   (234,744) 
3. Wiley-Blackwell   (149,222) 
4. Informa UK (Taylor&Francis) (89,639) 
5. Ovid Tech (Wolters Kluwer Health)   (51,651) 
6. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)   (49,437) 
7. IEEE   (48,374) 
8. SAGE Publications   (46,081) 
9. American Chemical Society (ACS)   (44,073) 
10. Oxford University Press (OUP)   (40,194) 
11. Nature Publishing Group   (35,208) 
12. Public Library of Science (PLoS)   (31,859) 
13. Thieme Publishing Group   (23,999) 
14. Cambridge University Press (CUP)   (23,097) 
15. IOP Publishing   (22,849) 
16. Hindawi Publishing Corporation   (20,991) 
17. Informa Healthcare   (19,243) 
18. MDPI AG   (17,345) 
19. Trans Tech Publications   (17,334) 
20. Medknow (16,602) 
Source: http://sciforum.net/statistics  
... as a bar chart
Source: http://sciforum.net/statistics  
... as a pie chart
Source: http://sciforum.net/statistics  
Growth of whole ball of wax 1994-2015
2.4 million papers (2015)
Total area under curve = 34.7 million papers published 1994-2015
830K papers (1994)
Increase of 191% (i.e. 3x)Source: http://sciforum.net/statistics  
The open access portion
297K papers (2014)
180K papers (2015)
8K papers (1994)
Source: http://sciforum.net/statistics  
APC’s by publisher 2015
Publishers Sum (euros) Articles Avg APC euros in $$
Elsevier BV 5,351,391 € 2,090 2,560 $2,868
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4,095,835 € 3,020 1,356 $1,519
Springer Science + Business Media 3,567,029 € 2,437 1,464 $1,639
Springer Nature 3,328,700 € 1,600 2,080 $2,330
Wiley-Blackwell 2,939,961 € 1,182 2,487 $2,786
Frontiers Media SA 1,802,706 € 1,369 1,317 $1,475
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1,521,217 € 608 2,502 $2,802
Copernicus GmbH 1,409,798 € 1,051 1,341 $1,502
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1,046,960 € 421 2,487 $2,785
IOP Publishing 959,780 € 826 1,162 $1,301
Nature Publishing Group 554,740 € 188 2,951 $3,305
BMJ 550,170 € 218 2,524 $2,827
MDPI AG 418,800 € 361 1,160 $1,299
Informa UK Limited 353,130 € 200 1,766 $1,978
Total 32,742,587 € 18,318 1,787 $2,002
Source: http://treemaps.intact-project.org/
Wellcome Trust (12 M€) 
+ 38 German universities
What are APC’s ?
Article Processing Charges = money paid to a 
publisher to make an article “open access”. 
In theory, these are to replace the revenue lost from subscription 
sales.
In practice, they represent an additional income stream 
for publishers and an opportunity for “double-dipping.”
A typical publisher contract
I (and my coauthors) hereby assign and transfer to [PUBLISHER] all rights of 
copyright ownership and permissions to the Work, including without 
limitation or restriction, all rights of reproduction, derivation, distribution, 
sale, reuse, translation and display of the Work, in whole or in part, including 
recompilation, cross-publication and stand-alone publication, in any and all 
forms of media now or hereafter known, including all electronic and digital 
media, as protected by the laws of the United States and foreign countries 
and to authorize others to make such uses of the work.
Q: What did you just sign away?
A: Everything
... but for how long?
1. For the rest of your life, plus
2. An additional 70 years
But down the road, what will that mean? 
Have you just signed away all your rights for the 
rest of your life, or are there alternatives? 
Could you ...
Have it on your lab or personal web page?
Have it in the institutional repository (UNL DigitalCommons)?
Have it in PubMed Central?
Have it in arXiv, bioRxiv, or SocArXiv (subject archives)?
Have it in Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Mendeley, SSRN, etc.
Distribute to classes, seminars, symposia?
Creative Commons (CC) license
“... the Licensor [author] hereby grants You [the user] a worldwide, 
royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license 
to ... 1.) reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in 
part; and 2.) to produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material.”
So you keep some useful rights to
 Distribute
 Modify
 Share
But you share those rights with ...
Every entity on the planet—personal, corporate, governmental, 
religious, ...
Your work can be legally re-used and modified by:
• Donald Trump
• KKK
• ISIS
• Kim Jong-un
• anyone
But that’s usually not a problem, and
CC licenses are best for open educational resources (OER) 
and other works you wish to share freely with the world.
Some publishers will grant you back 
some use rights
Permission to archive MS version on institution or funder site.
Permission to deposit in PubMed Central, Wellcome Trust, etc.
Permission to include in book collection.
Using your “archiving” rights
Around 80% of publishers permit you to have an “author version” 
on your personal or institutional site.
Not their published version, but a “postprint” or author version.
This exception allows you to distribute your work online and 
worldwide for free.
At UNL Libraries, we will:
Create and post online a “Husker version” that matches the 
publisher’s for layout, pagination, etc.
So if your publishers do not allow use of their published versions, 
we can still distribute professional and cite-able editions that 
match for quality and professional appearance.
You also have “fair-use” rights like 
anyone else
Display in class (put on Blackboard/Canvas).
Share one-to-one for scholarship, research, or teaching.
Quote or excerpt small portions.
Not just your work, but anyone’s.
But for more on copyright, fair use, 
and similar topics, ...
Please welcome my colleague, Sue Gardner
COPYRIGHT FOR SCHOLARLY AUTHORS
Sue Ann Gardner         9.21.16
Scholarly Communications, Libraries
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
COPYRIGHT BASICS
You wrote it =
You own it
COPYRIGHT BASICS
You signed a contract =
You have given up
some rights
COPYRIGHT BASICS
WHAT RIGHTS RESIDE IN COPYRIGHT?
1. Reproduce the work
2. Distribute copies of the work
3. Perform or display the work publicly
4. Prepare derivative works
COPYRIGHT BASICS
AUTHORSHIP
Joint authorship
Federal government 
authorship
COPYRIGHT BASICS
RE-USE
Licensing
Permissions
COPYRIGHT BASICS
RE-USE
Public domain
Orphan works
COPYRIGHT BASICS
FAIR USE
Four factors:
1. Purpose and character of the use
2. Nature of the copyrighted work
3. Amount and substantiality of that used
4. Effect on the market
COPYRIGHT BASICS
LENGTH OF TERM OF COPYRIGHT
The life of the author plus 70 years*
* This is a major generalization—
determining term of copyright is 
notoriously complicated
COPYRIGHT BASICS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf
http://unl.libguides.com/c.php?g=221828
Mechanics of the 
Manuscript
What Happens Next?
Linnea Fredrickson, Scholarly Communications, UNL Libraries
Peer Review
Copyediting
Design and Typesetting
Proofreading
Publication
Peer Review
• Validation of a work’s quality through evaluation by peers
• Varieties and pitfalls, but no one has
thought up any better process
• Most find the process is really helpful*
• Onward to final manuscript (MS) prep
Quote from Top Health newsletter from UNL Benefits, September 2016; *“Nine out of 10,”: see Mulligan, Hall, and Raphael, 
“Peer Review in a Changing World,” JASIST 64:1 (2013), pp. 132–161.
Copyediting
• Maybe!?
• Ultimately, will the work be easy or difficult for readers?
• Moving MS toward design and typesetting: preliminaries, 
heading hierarchies, elements
• Power of the tiny tools of punctuation— - – ‘ , ; : .
• Technique of the single pass
• L a s t   c h a n c e   f o r   s u b s t a n t i a l   c h a n g e s
• Author review of copyediting
Design and Typesetting
• Trim, type, layout, paper, binding . . . to carry ideas to readers
• Pouring the copyedited MS into the design
• Placement and treatment of every element
G G 
G G G 
G G G G G
Proofreading
• First time you see what it’s really going to look like!
• Proofreading  Proofscrutinizing
• Again, the technique of the single pass
• Hyphenation and line breaks, page breaks
• PEs—errors from typesetting and composition [PRINTER’S ERROR]
• AAs—very few or else $$$ [AUTHOR’S ALTERATION]
Publication
• One of the happiest moments on planet Earth
• More checking: color and black-and-white tones, pages, 
binding
• Journal formats: PDF now (and others)
• Outreach / SEO / indexes / metrics / impact
• Next project . . .


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