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The PLoS combination of quality and quantity
Ginny Barbour Managing Editor PLoS Medicine
BioMed Central Colloquium
Thursday 8th February 2007, The Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
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• “publishers should attempt to equate traditional publishing models with peer review”
• Eric Dezenhall, PR Consultant to Jeffrey Skilling, former Enron chief, ExxonMobil and, in 2006, to the Association of American Publishers
• “Media massaging is not the same as intellectual debate.”
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“…the rigor of peer review is independent of the price, medium, and funding model of a journal. Open Access may threaten the profits and market position of some publishers, but it does not threaten the quality of published science.”
Peter Suber, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
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Actually, OA improves quality
• We don’t have to stick with the old models of publishing peer reviewed papers
• Right now, quality control ends when a paper is published, and interaction between authors and readers is rare
• The internet is a revolutionary technology and Web 2.0 can make the process of scientific publishing better by “harnessing collective intelligence”
• -Tim O'Reilly, 2006,Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again
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Oct 2003Oct 2004
Open access 2.0
The Next
Generation
2005: Community Journals
Open access
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•• Inclusive:
all of science and medicine• Objective pre-publication peer-
review: focusing on scientific rigor• Post-publication commentary:
interactive, dynamic, openCollaborative:
In Beta - open source software site being developed with input from users
• New ways of assessing quality:eg, user annotations
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•The literature is vast
•Machines can be used to discover previously unknown information
•Open access facilitates this discovery process
Why quality is so important:text mining and open access
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Text mining
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Jensen, Saric and Bork Nature Reviews Genetics
Feb 2006
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OA will improve the quality of the scientific record
• Makes papers more available for scrutiny
• Contributes more efficiently to the wider literature
• Web 2.0 has the potential to encourage active criticism and correction