PeerJ - Innovative Publishing Models Panel at OpenCon 2014

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Academic Publishing is Evolving… Innovation @ PeerJ Pete Binfield Co-Founder and Publisher PeerJ @ThePeerJ www.PeerJ.com @p_binfield [email protected]

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

Innovation @ PeerJ

Pete Binfield

Co-Founder and Publisher

PeerJ

@ThePeerJ

www.PeerJ.com

@p_binfield

[email protected]

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

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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

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

1. Editorial criteria which judges articles only on scientific soundness;

2. A very broad subject scope;

3. An open access model employing a payment model in which each article pays its own costs

PLOS ONE’s Big Leap

They successfully separated the ‘decision to

publish’ from the evaluation of ‘quality’ / ‘impact’

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

New Innovators

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

1. Entirely new business model- Based around individuals

2. ‘Optional’ Open Peer Review

3. Built in reputation system- Stack overflow style

4. A pre-print server – PeerJ PrePrints- Tightly integrated with a peer-reviewed journal

5. User friendly and actually beautiful!

6. Custom built software platform- Submission, peer-review, publication

7. Pushing the envelope, not breaking it…

‘Specific’ Innovations at PeerJ

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

The PeerJ Model –

Pay Once, Publish For Life

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

‘Optional’ Open Peer-Review

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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

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

• Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics - Reviewers comments

published on pre-pub discussion site. Reviewer names optional.

• Biology Direct - Reviewer comments published, and reviewers

named

• BMJ Open - All reviewers named, all reports public

• eLife - Decision letter published with articles with author

approval. Reviewers anonymous, but editor named.

• EMBO journal - Review process file published with articles.

Reviewers anonymous, editor named.

• F1000Research - All reviewers named, all reports public.

• Frontiers journals - Reviewers named, but reports not public

• GigaScience - Pre-publication history published with articles,

and reviewers named. (encouraged, opt-out)

• Medical journals in the BMC series - Pre-publication history

published with articles, and reviewers named (encouraged).

• PeerJ - Peer review history published with articles with author

approval. Reviewers encouraged to sign report.

Journals Practicing Open Peer-Review

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

Contribution ‘Points’

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

PeerJ Q&A

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

Reputation System

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

PeerJ PrePrints

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

Creating natural incentives and structures

that encourage good / positive behaviour

1. Entirely new business model- Based around individuals

2. ‘Optional’ Open Peer Review

3. Built in reputation system- Stack overflow style

4. A pre-print server – PeerJ PrePrints- Tightly integrated with a peer-reviewed journal

5. User friendly and actually beautiful!

6. Custom built software platform- Submission, peer-review, publication

7. Pushing the envelope, not breaking it…

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Academic Publishing is Evolving…

Informal

feedback / Q&A

Evaluation /

ALMs

Formal

optional open

peer-review

Contribution

points / profile

pages

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everything evolves

…even publishing

Thank You

Pete Binfield

Co-Founder & Publisher, PeerJ

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