2013 CrossRef Annual Meeting Agile Publishing Kristen Ratan

• 1.PLOS Agile Publishing Kristen Fisher Ratan CrossRef Annual Meeting 13 November 2013

2. What is Agile? The philosophy behind agile software development: satisfy the customer welcome change iterate frequently ` build on a growing base promote dialog If we were to adopt these principles, what would scholarly communication look like?2 3. Stages Research, data analysis Authoring Assessment Publishing, producing Reading Curating, annotating3 4. Agile Publishing Researching, data creation: Collaborative, open, updated Authoring: Early, versioned and iterative Assessment: Rapid crowd assessment Publishing, producing: sharing, immediate Reading: skimming, searching, word of mouth Curation: collaborative, crowd-sourced, annotation, disaggregated 4 5. What is Publishing?5 6. Reporting6 7. Is publishing useful?7 8. Stages Research, data analysis Authoring Assessment Publishing, producing Reading Curating, annotating8 9. Research / Data 9 10. Github as collaboration tool10 11. Figshare as data repository11 12. F1000 Research Data plotting12 13. Anthony Salvagnos open lab notebook 14. 14 15. Authoring 15 16. Authoring tools out there Booktype Subversion Authorea Fiduswriter WriteLatex ShareLatex Lanyrd16 17. Authorea17 18. Booktype platform for Book Sprints18 19. Assessment 19 20. PLOS Labs: Alternate Evaluation Design and testing of novel evaluation system: Simple and Fast Structured Transparent with open data Potential for larger number of peers providing feedback Can be collected pre- or post publication General to scientific research outputs 21. Collection areas Factors connected to journal titles: 1 Personal interest 2 Importance to Science & Shared KnowledgeFactors connected to traditional peer review: 3 Validity and Scientific Merit 4 Writing, Presentation, and Clarity 22. 2Importance to Science & Shared KnowledgeThis work makes little to no contribution to science knowledgeThis work makes a minor contribution to the field of study If the user selects either of these two options, display the following: I think this work was not worth doingThis work makes a significant contribution to science knowledgeThis work advances the fieldIf the user selects either of these two options, display the following: This work is a major scientific breakthrough This work has an important or novel method This work will lead to reinterpretation of wellestablished findings This work opens a new area of inquiry in the field This work has an important or significant conclusion: 23. Publishing /Producing 23 24. Medium.com - blogging platform24 25. When authoring and publishing collide25 26. Authoring, Producing, & annotating26 27. Reading 27 28. If you put an author and a reader in a room together would the author read her article to the reader? -John Sack28 29. HighWire user research Reading Isnt What It Used To Be: 2002: I read 3-4 journals regularly 2012: I read 8-10 journals regularlyHuh? HighWire|Stanford University29 30. Email TOC is readingHighWire|Stanford University30 31. Adam Hyde on Readers31 32. Curation/Annotation/ Collaboration 32 33. Wikipedia- versioning done well33 34. Reddit: good site design isnt everything400M users 37B page views34 35. PubMed Commons35 36. Hypothes.is36 37. With all these rapid and immediate forms of authoring, curating and collaborating, will future generations of scientists will wait for us to publish anything?37 38. Reputation 38 39. Scholars need Publications Brand-named journals Impact factors Citations H-index CVs Tenure/promotion39 40. ALM Reports alm.plos.org Allows researchers, institutions & funders to: create a report of the ALMs for a single or set of PLOS articles view a summary of the metrics along with an accompanying set of data visualizations. Search based on: keyword author name & country affiliation publication date subject areas funder 40 41. ALM Reports MetricsVisualizations41 42. Stackoverflow: emerging reputation systems42 43. Open Source Report Card43 44. Scholars will organically replace the journal with what they find more useful44 45. http://www.wordle.net/[email protected] @kristenratan45