Academic Publishing in Europe

It was very interesting report named “Forward, but in what Direction?” that was presented by Director of Research Information Network (RIN) Dr. Michael Jubb. He emphasized that governments invest money in research because of the positive influence on society and that governments want to increase or maximize that influence. Costs of research are increasing and cost-effectiveness becomes one of the dominant themes. Dr. Michael Jubb said that there is less knowledge about how information resources and services are used. Users don’t know and don’t understand how digital information system works but they want to get fast access to information they need and to evaluation services.
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Dirk Lens (Member of the Executive Board, Swets, Lisse) and Dr. Paul Evans (Senior Vice President, International Publishing Development, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam) were talked about Multiplication of Impact through Simplification and The New Deal – Freedoms, Experiments, Sustainability – The road ahead, respectively. Dirk Lens spoke about mail functionalities of the SwetsWise product portfolio. Dr. Paul Evans governments of developed countries should help to development if innovations in publishing. But both of them underlined that there are different players in the publishing world that should co-operate and help each other to develop publishing, make it easier and faster. There were two very interesting presentations from Mr. Lens and Mr. Evans.
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The first presenter on The Road Ahead that was chaired by Dr. Einar Fredriksson (Director, IOS Press, Amsterdam) was Wim van der Stelt. Mr. Van der Stelt – the Executive Vice President Business Development of Springer. He told that it is better to use Google or Google Scholar if you are searching for background research (new area research) but you should use SpringerLink acts if you are looking for Springer’s published researches. SpringerLink is one of the top content sites in the Internet. And then Wim van der Slelt talked about the future of books and threats to publishers that are connected with electronic Books (eBooks).
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