Is Web 2.0 Changing Scholarly Publishing?
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Is Web 2.0 Changing Publishing Forever?
Kristen Fisher Ratan
HighWire Press
May 18, 2008
CSE Meeting
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About HighWire
• HighWire is a department of Stanford University Libraries
• “Not for profit, not for loss, not for sale”• Founded in 1995 and entirely self-funding
from 1996 onwards• Staff of more than 130 to deliver technology
and services to publishers• Launched H2O e-publishing platform in 2008
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Is Web 2.0 Changing Publishing?
• From Authoring to Linking, it’s all being reinvented– Expert authors – user-generated content– Peer review – user ranking and reviews– Editors – recommendation and organization
systems– Subject publications – blogs, uber-blogs
• What can we learn from it all?
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The New Authoring?
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450,000 individually
authored pages on all topics
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The New Editing and Peer Review?
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Helium: Grass-roots Peer-review?
Over 100,000 writers
contributing on dozens of topics
Anonymous rating system of
other articles within your topic
area
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Wikiprofessional's Concept Web
Organization of accumulated
knowledge into units called
Knowlets
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Baynote Determining users’
true intent and making
recommendations
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Indexing, Connecting, Contextualizing
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Blogs and uber-blogs
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The New Impact Factors?
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Find out who is blogging about you
http://www.technorati.com/search/www.highwire.org?sort=authority
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The New Publishers?Or Aggregators?
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Provides tools for people to aggregate, organize, read, and
share RSS feeds they are subscribed to
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Social Poster
Submits your links to over 20 popular social bookmarking websites automatically, creating new accounts for you
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The New ePublishing Platforms?
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Scribd and Drupal
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Thank You!