the future of science publishing - max haring
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Max Haring, PhDExecutive editor, [email protected]
EUROIMPACT session, 13th EAPC Prague June 2013
The Future of Science Publishing
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• About Springer• SpringerPlus
• Open Access • Read and re-use
• Cite everything!
• Science goes Social
Overview
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About Springer• Science / Technology / Medicine (STM)
• Professional Publishing (B2B)
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• Open Access
• Online Only
• Peer-reviewed
• International editorial board
• For all Disciplines in STEM and HSS
• Never out of scope!
• All article types
• No focus on impact factor
• Accepts low-cited work
• Efficient and predictable
SpringerPlus (www.springerplus.com)
Open Access Publishing
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Open Access Publishing
Free to read
Free to re-use
- Easier to find & use relevant literature
- Increases the visibility, readership and impact of author’s works
- Creates new ways of use- Enhances interdisciplinary
research - Accelerates the pace of research,
discovery and innovation
http://www.sparc.arl.org/openaccess/why-oa.shtml http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/jul/17/open-access-scientific-research
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Peer-review
• Reviewers name and comments are available
• Open Post-pub Peer-review
Manuscripts
• Pre-publication history
• Revisions and comments
Data
• Research output, images, algorithms, software code, statistics, …
What else can be open?
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Open Science: for the public
“By playing EyeWire, you become a part of the
Seung Lab at MIT”
Eyewire.org ‘Connectomics’• 3D stacks of 2D SEM images – retinal neurons
• Gamers follow neurons through stacks
• Create physical map, develop better mapping software
Cite everything!
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Publish your data!
• Linked to journal article
• Data with its own DOI
• Citable
• Impact calculation
Data mandates
• US: NHF, NIH, NASA, CDC
• EU: Horizon 2020, Wellcome Trust
• Publish with DOI !
Cite Data!
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Future: Cite facts, ideas, people, relationships
Copyright © 2012 Paolo Manghi, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/manghi/09manghi.html
Why cite the article?…
…when you can cite the fact!
Science Ontologies
• Make articles machine readable
• Shows relationships
• Micro-DOI for facts/quotes/data points
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Future: Cite facts, ideas, people, relationships
Sources of open data, September 2010 (CC-BY-SA – DBpedia)
Science goes Social
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Citations come from everywhere!
Scholarly citations|
Non-scholarly citation• News coverage
• Twitter, Facebook, Google+
• Blogs, Wikipedia
Post-publication comments• Faculty of 1000
• Mendeley, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Papers
Facebook twitter Blogs Google+ Pinterest Reddit Q&A sitesLinkedIn0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000 24052 187408
2077 2195471 833 73 174
187.480
Data for Sept 2012
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Which article made a bigger impact?
• Article with many citations
• Article widely discussed in the social web
• Article with lots of downloads
• Article discussed on CNN
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16 #APE2013
And Finally…
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The Future is now!
Everyone reads before citing!• Get read!
Be Future Proof!• Publish Open Access
• Make your data available
• Use Social Media, Blogs, websites
• Comment on Mendelay, Papers etc.
• Add Altmetrics to your CV
• Always use the DOI as a reference
