Post on 16-Dec-2015
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Open Access, Innovation and
PeerJ
Pete Binfield Co-Founder & Publisher PeerJ
@ThePeerJwww.PeerJ.com
@p_binfieldpete@peerj.com
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
“There is a red spot in Jupiter, which rotates
mathem[atically]”
This American Life, 9/28/2012
Galileo Kepler
I. Glass
"I have observed the highest of the planets, three-formed". “Hail double
knob, childrenof mars”
“The mother of love imitates the figures of Cynthia.”
“Hail double knob, children of mars”
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
• An enabling technology (the printing press)• A realization that the new technology is not just more efficient,
but is transformative in certain ways• A new conceptual leap (open communication benefits all)
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
~330 years pass by…
http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f125/dragging-pics-284562/#post3879643
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
slowly
http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f125/dragging-pics-284562/#post3879643
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Question
What have been the most important innovations in scholarly publishing …
• in the last 20 years?
• in the last ~10 years?
• in the last ~5 years?
• in the last few years?
Journals go online
The OA Movement
The MegaJournal
?
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
“ should publishers continue to do business-as-usual, then they will (and frankly should) become dinosaurs, while younger, more innovative and more robust communication venues take the lead. The publishing industry as it is constituted today is doomed to extinction. That isn’t an ‘if’. It’s a ‘when’.”
“Dragging scientific publishing into the 21st century”
Khan, Goodman and Mittelman, Genome Biology 2014, 15:556,Dec 2014 http://genomebiology.com/2014/15/12/556
“The more I deal with subscription publishers, the more I am convinced that they are trapped in a business model that basically dooms them to the extinction predicted in the above article.”
Lenny Teytelman, in The Spectroscope – “Subscription Publishing is the Hotel Industry. Science needs Airbnb.”2/4/2015
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Examples: Altmetric; Authorea; Authorea; bioRxiv; BMJ Open; eLife Lens; experiment.com; F1000Posters; F1000Research; figshare; GitHub; GoogleScholar; Impactstory; LabGuru; Mendeley; MyScienceWork; Open Science Framework; Overleaf; PeerJ; PLOS; protocols.io; PubChase; Publons; PubMed Commons; PubPeer; Readcube; Research Square; Riffyn; Rubriq; ScienceExchange; ScienceOpen; Sciencescape; Sparrho; Twitter; Zenodo…
• Open peer review• Post-publication reviews/discussion/annotation• Improved discovery of research knowledge• UX upgrade for reading, writing and submitting• Article-level metrics• Instant publishing and sharing• Reproducibility
“Subscription Publishing is the Hotel Industry. Science needs Airbnb.”
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
The ALPSP Award for Publishing
Innovation
Recent Winners
• 2008 CrossCheck• 2009 PLOS ONE• 2010 ChemSpider• 2011 OECD Better Life Index• 2012 Peerage of Science• 2013 PeerJ• 2014 Frontiers Publications
Predicted ‘Disruption Timeframe’ of OA vs Subscription model
Source: “The Inevitability of Open Access”, David Lewishttp://crl.acrl.org/content/73/5/493.full.pdf+html (College and Research Libraries, Sep 2012
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
2013
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New Innovators
2013
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2012
Academic Publishing is Evolving…http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-015-1547-0
The Open Access Advantage Considering Citation, Article Usage and Social Media Attention
Academic Publishing is Evolving…https://peerj.com/articles/175/
Data reuse and the open data citation advantage
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
• Reviewers are named• Reviews can happen ‘in the open’• Publication can happen 1st, followed
by open peer-review• Peer-review history is made public
Open Peer Review
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Open Peer Review
Also: annotatr, Arxiliv, Axios Review, Epistimio, Episciences, F1000 Prime, Haldane’s Sieve, OpenPub, Openreview.net, PaperCritic, PaperRater.org, Peer Evaluation, Peerage of Science, PubUp, Rubriq, Sympoze, SciOR, The Third Reviewer, TiNYARM, Journal Lab…
Also: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Biology Direct, eLife, EMBO journal, Frontiers journals, GigaScience, Medical journals in the BMC series
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
• Winner of the 2013 ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation• Named as one of the “Top 10 Educational Technology Innovators of 2013” by the Chronicle of Higher Education
Creating natural incentives & structures that encourage good / positive behaviour
Our ‘Big Picture’ Innovation
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
• Entirely new business model– Lifetime plans for as low as $99 one off payment– Undergraduates publish for free
• ‘Optional’ Open Peer Review– Maximum transparency
• Built in reputation system / Q&A system– Stack overflow style
• A pre-print server – PeerJ PrePrints– Tightly integrated with both peer-reviewed journals
• Rapid, flexible publications– 22 days to 1st decision– Publications across all of Biology, Medicine, and Computer Science
• User friendly and actually beautiful!
What you need to know about PeerJ
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
The PeerJ Model – Pay Once, Publish For Life
Undergraduates publish for free
http://blog.peerj.com/post/100580518238/whos-afraid-of-open-peer-review
• ~40% of peer-reviewers name themselves
• ~80% of authors reproduce their peer review history
Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Informalfeedback / Q&A
Evaluation /ALMs
Formal optional openpeer-review
Contributionpoints / profilepages