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Open Access, Innovation and PeerJ Pete Binfield Co-Founder & Publisher PeerJ @p_binfield [email protected] @ThePeerJ www.PeerJ.com Academic Publishing is Evolving… "I have observed the highest of the planets, three-formed". “Hail double knob, children of mars” “The mother of love imitates the figures of Cynthia.” “There is a red spot in Jupiter, which rotates mathem[atically]” Kepler Galileo “Hail double knob, children of mars” This American Life, 9/28/2012 I. Glass 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 all) Academic Publishing isbenefits Evolving… ~330 years pass by… Academic Publishing is Evolving… http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f125/dragging-pics-284562/#post3879643 slowly Academic Publishing is Evolving… http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f125/dragging-pics-284562/#post3879643 Question What have been the most important innovations in scholarly publishing … • in the last 20 years? Journals go online • in the last ~10 years? The OA Movement • in the last ~5 years? The MegaJournal • in the last few years? ? Academic Publishing is Evolving… “Dragging scientific publishing into the 21st century” “ 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’.” 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… “Subscription Publishing is the Hotel Industry. Science needs Airbnb.” • • • • • • • 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 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… Academic Publishing is Evolving… The ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation Recent Winners • • • • • • • 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 CrossCheck PLOS ONE ChemSpider OECD Better Life Index Peerage of Science PeerJ Frontiers Publications Academic Publishing is Evolving… https://innoscholcomm.silk.co/ & http://bit.ly/innoscholcomm-list Predicted ‘Disruption Timeframe’ of OA vs Subscription model Source: “The Inevitability of Open Access”, David Lewis http://crl.acrl.org/content/73/5/493.full.pdf+html (College and Research Libraries, Sep 2012 New Innovators Academic Publishing is Evolving… Two Case Studies • ‘Article Level Metrics’ • ‘Open Peer Review’ Academic Publishing is Evolving… • ‘Article Level Metrics’ Academic Publishing is Evolving… The Open Access Advantage Considering Citation, Article Usage and Social Media Attention Academic Publishing is Evolving… http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-015-1547-0 Data reuse and the open data citation advantage Academic Publishing is Evolving… https://peerj.com/articles/175/ Article Level Metrics Academic Publishing is Evolving… Open Peer Review • Reviewers are named • Reviews can happen ‘in the open’ • Publication can happen 1st, followed by open peer-review • Peer-review history is made public Academic Publishing is Evolving… https://twitter.com/slavov_mit/status/578325289111052288 Academic Publishing is Evolving… Open Peer Review Also: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Biology Direct, eLife, EMBO journal, Frontiers journals, GigaScience, Medical journals in the BMC series 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… Academic Publishing is Evolving… 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 Our ‘Big Picture’ Innovation Creating natural incentives & structures that encourage good / positive behaviour Academic Publishing is Evolving… What you need to know about PeerJ • 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! Academic Publishing is Evolving… http://figshare.com/articles/Average_APC_price_2014/1311650 Academic Publishing is Evolving… The PeerJ Model – Pay Once, Publish For Life Undergraduates publish for free Academic Publishing is Evolving… ‘Optional’ Open Peer-Review Academic Publishing is Evolving… • ~40% of peer-reviewers name themselves • ~80% of authors reproduce their peer review history http://blog.peerj.com/post/100580518238/whos-afraid-of-open-peer-review Built-In Reputation System Academic Publishing is Evolving… PeerJ Q&A Academic Publishing is Evolving… ‘Leaderboards’ Academic Publishing is Evolving… Academic Publishing is Evolving… Academic Publishing is Evolving… Formal optional open peer-review Evaluation / ALMs Informal feedback / Q&A Contribution points / profile pages Academic Publishing is Evolving… everything evolves …even publishing Thank You Pete Binfield @p_binfield [email protected] Co-Founder & Publisher, PeerJ