Academic Publishing is Evolving… Open Access, Innovation and PeerJ Pete Binfield Co-Founder & Publisher PeerJ @ThePeerJ @p_binfield [email protected].

Academic Publishing is Evolving…

Open Access, Innovation and

PeerJ

Pete Binfield Co-Founder & Publisher PeerJ

@ThePeerJwww.PeerJ.com

@[email protected]


“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”


• 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)


~330 years pass by…

http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f125/dragging-pics-284562/#post3879643


slowly

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?

• in the last ~10 years?

• in the last ~5 years?

• in the last few years?

Journals go online

The OA Movement

The MegaJournal

?


“ 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

http://genomebiology.com/2014/15/12/556




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.”


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

https://innoscholcomm.silk.co/ & http://bit.ly/innoscholcomm-list

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

http://crl.acrl.org/content/73/5/493.full.pdf+html


2013

2013

2012

2006

2009

2011

2010

New Innovators

2013

2013

2011

2012

2013

2012


Two Case Studies

• ‘Article Level Metrics’• ‘Open Peer Review’


• ‘Article Level Metrics’

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


Article Level Metrics


• 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…https://twitter.com/slavov_mit/status/578325289111052288


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



• 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


• 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…http://figshare.com/articles/Average_APC_price_2014/1311650


The PeerJ Model – Pay Once, Publish For Life

Undergraduates publish for free


‘Optional’ Open Peer-Review

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


Built-In Reputation System


PeerJ Q&A


‘Leaderboards’




Informalfeedback / Q&A

Evaluation /ALMs

Formal optional openpeer-review

Contributionpoints / profilepages

everything evolves …even publishing

Thank You

Pete Binfield

@[email protected]

Co-Founder & Publisher, PeerJ

Academic Publishing is Evolving… Open Access, Innovation and PeerJ Pete Binfield Co-Founder & Publisher PeerJ @ThePeerJ @p_binfield [email protected].

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