aaas 2014: how the web changes collaboration
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Social Tools for Serious Science
William Gunn, Ph.D.Head of Academic OutreachMendeley
@mrgunn
Enabling Collaboration in a Networked World
• The Web is transformative• Modern research requires collaboration
• Networks, not destinations
A historical perspective
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Change and Disruption
• The music industry was first• futile resistance• worst fears not confirmed• providing a product very many
people want is in fact quite sustainable
• The Web changed discovery and delivery
More Change and Disruption
• Blogging changed how we communicated
• Professional media organizations still exist
• A service that gives people what they want is a quite sustainable business model
• The Web changed engagement
Pochoda, Phil. "The big one: The epistemic system break in scholarly monograph publishing." new media & society 15.3 (2013): 359-378.
Authors Publishers
Printers
Shippers
Booksellers
Readers
Pochoda, Phil. "The big one: The epistemic system break in scholarly monograph publishing." new media & society 15.3 (2013): 359-378.
Authors Publishers
Printers
Shippers
Booksellers
Readers
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AuthorsReaders Internet
Social Networks
Opportunities for discoveryOpportunities for building relationships
Adams, Jonathan. "Collaborations: the fourth age of research." Nature 497.7451 (2013): 557-560.
King, Christopher (2012) Thomson Reuters Annual Reporthttp://ar.thomsonreuters.com/_files/pdf/MultiauthorPapers_ChrisKing.pdf
• The Web is being underutilized in research
• research increasingly requires more collaboration.
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From consumer to provider
• Can we bring tools and user experience from other parts of the web to scholarly communication?
• People expect to easily share and discover music and photos, why not academic papers?
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Leveraging the Web requires an open infrastructure
• HTML: open standard• TCP/IP: open standard• Wordpress: open source, open API• Twitter: open source, open API• Google Scholar: Not open• Facebook: Not open
Networks, not destinations
• Not a website for scientists• Scientists, on the web
...and aggregates research
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We are publishing this data to the LOD cloud
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What would people build if they could get the data?
• Impact Story – get credit for all your work
• PLOS ALM – article-level metrics for papers
• Plum Analytics – bespoke analytics for libraries
• Altmetric.com – altmetrics for publishers. (from Digital Science/NPG)
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