Culture Shock: Managing the Change in Publishing

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Overview of change drivers Internet digital search engines mobile (iPhone) culture change – open access, sharing

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There Are Many Copies

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/18112585/

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Machine Readable

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisovy/4678126767/

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A New Universe

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The.Matrix.glmatrix.2.png

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A Physicist on Madison Avenue

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Culture Shock

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Present Shock

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Open Access

http://www.flickr.com/photos/communityfriend/2342578485/

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Open Science

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Key areas for publishers to improve Communication Replication Retraction Citation Connection Reputation Integration

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Communication What channels are you using?

Blog / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest / … Audio Video

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Communication – text messages 17.6 billion 19.1 billion

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Be on the web and OF the web

Some things that look like change are actually the status quo Hydrogen fuel-cell cars PDF

Don’t just take a physical process and duplicate it in digital

Don’t be a servant of the (technology) solution, be the master of the (business) process

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Of the Web

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Of the Web and in the office Be social, be authentic, be individual Wall Street Journal –

The Science of Serendipity in the Workplace New York Times – Engineering Serendipity

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Science! Replication

needs to be much easier to replicate the science would be nice if replication (or failure to replicate)

could be linked to original article(s)

Retraction related to replication, need to have both processes

and technology to communicate about retracted papers

http://www.nature.com/news/misconduct-is-the-main-cause-of-life-sciences-retractions-1.11507

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Replication Growth in a Time of Debt (Jan 2010)

http://www.nber.org/papers/w15639.pdfReinhart, Carmen M., and Kenneth S. Rogoff. 2010. "Growth in a Time of Debt." American Economic Review, 100(2): 573-78.http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.100.2.573

Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff (April 2013)http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/31e2ff374b6377b2ddec04deaa6388b1/publication/566/

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Data and code http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/data.php “The AER Paper and Processions issue publishes

selected papers presented at the Annual AEA conference.  Datasets for the P & P contributions are subject to the same access policies as regular issues of the AER, but because the P & P issues publishes conference papers in a timely manner to make recent findings widely available, articles published therein are not subject to the same peer-review procedures that are used for regular issues of the AER, but the data access policies are the same.”

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Data and code

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Download the data and code

Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff (April 2013)

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Replication “averaged cells in lines 30 to 44 instead of

lines 30 to 49”

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Nature - reproducibility “address the problems underlying

irreproducibility” “more systematically ensure the reporting of

key methodological details, give more space to Methods sections, examine the statistics more closely and offer more ways for authors to be transparent about these matters”

Raising standardsNature Immunology 14, 415 (2013) doi:10.1038/ni.2603Published online 18 April 2013

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Retractions http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/ “Is there a reliable database of

retractions?

No. There are ways to search Medline and the Web of Science for retractions, but there’s no single database.”

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Key areas Citation

can I cite a tweet? a blog post? a data set? Connection

post-email social media connections to authors and communities

ORCID Reputation

authority of content altmetrics

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Citation Rules for social media citations

Issues of permanence Dataset citations e.g. Datacite

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Connection: What’s email?

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Connection “a registry of unique researcher identifiers

and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers”

0000-0003-4744-6336

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Reputation http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

“Altmetrics are fast, using public APIs to gather data in days or weeks. They’re open–not just the data, but the scripts and algorithms that collect and interpret it. Altmetrics look beyond counting and emphasize semantic content like usernames, timestamps, and tags.”

Focus on individual articles, and individual authors – are you measuring the impact of your articles and authors? Are you enhancing their impact and reputation?

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Integration Integration

Are you being cited as an authority? Are you part of the general conversation beyond your discipline?

e.g. how often are you cited in Wikipedia? Have you supported a Wikipedia edit-a-thon?

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Key areas for publishers to improve Communication Replication Retraction Citation Connection Reputation Integration

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Conclusion Many kinds of culture shock

Between traditional print and digital Between experts in science & the written word

and experts in technology Between long editorial cycles and the always-on,

real-time demands of the Internet Many steps that can be taken

Be of the web Be scientific Be authentic

Questions?

Richard Akerman | http://scilib.typepad.com/ | @scilibCopyright © 2013 | Licensed in the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC