New Perspectives in Scholarly Publishing – Potenziale und Möglichkeiten digital vernetzter Forschung Vortrag von Alexander Grossmann, Digital Academics Summit 2017, Leipzig

1. New Perspectives
in Scholarly Publishing –
Potenziale und Möglichkeiten digital
vernetzter Forschung
Prof. Dr. Alexander Grossmann
HTWK Leipzig und ScienceOpen
Digital Academics Summit 2017
Leipzig, 27. Oktober 2017

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Too much information?
Over 2m new papers per year in STM only…

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Too much information?
How to find relevant research…?

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New culture of communication…
Social Networks
Communities
Crowd-sourcing
Open Data
Open Access
Repositories
Altmetrics
Open Peer Review
Science 2.0
How to find relevant research…?
Open Science

5. CC0 Pixabay

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New projects in scientific communication
1991 2000 2005 2008 2010 2012 2014

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Research communication in transition
Ways to publish research today
Directories (linking lists)
Repositories or pre-print server
OA journals (subject-based)
Journal databases (‚mega journals‘)
Aggregation networks
How to discover and access…?

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Research communication in transition
Ways to access research today
Searching engines

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Research communication in transition
Ways to access research today
Searching engines
Research databases

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Research communication in transition
Ways to access research today
Searching engines
Research databases
Research paper sharing platforms

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Research communication in transition
Ways to access research today
Searching engines
Research databases
Research paper sharing platforms
Aggregation networks

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Research communication in transition
Ways to access research today
Searching engines
Research databases
Research paper sharing platforms
Aggregation networks

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ScienceOpen

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Research on ScienceOpen

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Research on ScienceOpen

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ScienceOpen: Aggregating research
Green OA
or
subscription-
based
self-published
Gold OA
graduate works
negative results
case reports
posters
peer reviews
research data …
Dr. C. Conrad

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ScienceOpen: Aggregating research
Green OA
or
subscription-
based
self-published
Gold OA
graduate works
negative results
case reports
posters
peer reviews
research data …
Dr. C. ConradDr. C. Conrad
…let others find your content by similar searchHow does discovery and searching work…?

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How does it work? 1(6)
[1] B. Bobman, Journal 4 3123 (2006)
Journal
all articles (from a repository or published
elsewhere) aggregated on ScienceOpen
subs
cripti
on
self-
publish
ed
Gold
OA

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How does it work? 2(6)
[1] B. Bobman, Journal 4 3123 (2006) B. Bobman
Journal
each reference is linking to
an article record on ScienceOpen

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How does it work? 3(6)
[1] B. Bobman, Journal 4 3123 (2006) B. Bobman
Journal
that article linking back to seed article

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How does it work? 4(6)
[1] B. Bobman, Journal 4 3123 (2006)
50 references per article

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How does it work? 5(6)
[1] B. Bobman, Journal 4 3123 (2006)
50 references per article
— all driving usage to seed article

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How does it work? 6(6)
[1] B. Bobman, Journal 4 3123 (2006)
50 more chances for readers
of coming across your content!
150—300 accesses per articles in pilot project

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Where does our traffic come from?
[1] B. Bobman, Journal 4 3123
(2006)
45% Google
40% Baidu (China)
85% of traffic is acquired from search engines

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Impressive usage numbers…
85% of traffic is acquired from search enginesOver 2m extra views on articles of one journal

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Comparison with searching engines
ScienceOpen
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
PubMed
+
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
Google
+
+
NO
+
NO
NO
NO
Scopus
+
+
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
Web of
Science
+
+
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
Search across all publishers
Filter search by citations
Filter search by Altmetric
Institution page/branding
Post-publication peer review
Commenting
Networking

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Comparison with discovery platforms
ScienceOpen
NO
+
+
+
+
+
+
Kudos
+
NO
NO
+
NO
+
+
TrendMD
+
NO
NO
+
NO
NO
NO
MyScience
Works
NO
+
NO
+
NO
NO
NO
Publisher website only
Global website
Context environment
Recommended articles
Filter search by Altmetric
Citation information
Featured Collections
Starting point:

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Collections on ScienceOpen

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Collections on ScienceOpen

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Scientific Communication tomorrow…

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Scientific Communication tomorrow…

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Scientific Communication today…
Peer Review
Scientists
= Authors
= Readers
= Reviewers

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Scientific Communication today…
Peer Review
Scientists
= Authors
= Readers
= Reviewers
?
?
?
?
How to set up such a novel workflow…?

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Scientific Communication today…
Peer Review
Scientists
= Authors
= Readers
= Reviewers
?
?
?
?
…Scientific communication tomorrow?

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Scientific Communication tomorrow…?
arXiv
PMC
sciELO
Rep…

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Scientific Communication tomorrow…?
arXiv
PMC
sciELO
Rep…

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Scientific Communication tomorrow…?
arXiv
PMC
sciELO
Rep…

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Scientific Communication tomorrow…?
Dr. C. Conrad
Overlay journal principle
arXiv
PMC
sciELO
Rep…

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Concept in principal discussed by
Timothy Gowers
University of Cambridge, UK
Fields Medal 1998
Elsevier Boycott 2012 (Cost of Knowledge project)
Massively collaborative Math project Nature 461 879 (2009)
Ideas: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/how-might-we-get-to-a-new-
model-of-mathematical-publishing/.
Launched Discrete Analysis 2016
as an arXiv-based overlay journal
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/discrete-analysis-an-arxiv-overlay-journal
Overlay Journal Principle
Quality assessment…?

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Concept in principal discussed by
Timothy Gowers
University of Cambridge, UK
Fields Medal 1998
Elsevier Boycott 2012 (Cost of Knowledge project)
Massively collaborative Math project Nature 461 879 (2009)
Ideas: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/how-might-we-get-to-a-new-
model-of-mathematical-publishing/.
Launched Discrete Analysis 2016
as an arXiv-based overlay journal
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/discrete-analysis-an-arxiv-overlay-journal
Overlay Journal Principle
Peer review… in the classical way?

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Concept in principal discussed by
Timothy Gowers
University of Cambridge, UK
Fields Medal 1998
Elsevier Boycott 2012 (Cost of Knowledge project)
Massively collaborative Math project Nature 461 879 (2009)
Ideas: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/how-might-we-get-to-a-new-
model-of-mathematical-publishing/.
Launched Discrete Analysis 2016
as an arXiv-based overlay journal
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/discrete-analysis-an-arxiv-overlay-journal
Overlay Journal Principle
Public post-publication peer review.

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Open and public process
Fully transparent:
Who?
Which experience?
What?
Comments and Replies are openly shared
Reviewing not limited to a narrow time frame
Report can be cited (credited by DOI)
Reviewer is acknowledged
Post-publication peer review (PPPR)
N. Kriegeskorte: Front Comput Neurosci. 6 (2012) 1–18
F1000, The Winnower, ScienceOpen.

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Open and public process
Fully transparent:
Who?
Which experience?
What?
Comments and Replies are openly shared
Reviewing not limited to a narrow time frame
Report can be cited (credited by DOI)
Reviewer is acknowledged
Post-publication peer review (PPPR)
N. Kriegeskorte: Front Comput Neurosci. 6 (2012) 1–18
Does post-publication peer review work?

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ScienceOpen … peer review statistics

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Open and public process
Fully transparent:
Who?
Which experience?
What?
Comments and Replies are openly shared
Reviewing not limited to a narrow time frame
Report can be cited (credited by DOI)
Reviewer is acknowledged
Post-publication peer review (PPPR)
N. Kriegeskorte: Front Comput Neurosci. 6 (2012) 1–18
Overlay Journals and PPPR?

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Concept has been implemented for all disciplines
and 35+ million papers at ScienceOpen
Overlay Journal and PPPR Principle

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Scientific Publishing: Perspectives
Traditional Publishing Current Trends
journals = content containers interdisciplinary database
for specific discipline = „megajournal“ or Collections
IF does not provide information article level metrics (altmetrics)
about relevance of research
no data available open data
limiting article type to open to reproduction papers
original or „new“ research and negative results studies
static publication „living“ document; versioning
closed peer-review open evaluation;
anonymous reviewers post-publication peer-review
no credits for reviewer acknowledgement of reviews
no interaction between (open) communication and
authors and readers active feedback
content is paywalled open access (OA)
library pays for APCs paid by governmental
journal subscriptions or institutional funding partners
authors prefer prestigous and
highly ranked journals to publish ?

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Literature
www.scienceopen.com/collection/Science20

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Thank you!
Alexander Grossmann
Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
HTWK Leipzig
University of Applied Sciences
ScienceOpen
Berlin – Boston – Budapest
@SciPubLab
Alexander.Grossmann@htwk-leipzig.de

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