ScienceOpen: Re-inventing Scientific Publishing?

APE Pre-Conference Day19 January 2015 Berlin

Alexander GrossmannPresident and Co-FounderScienceOpen

Alexander Grossmann APE Berlin 19 January 2015

Re-inventing Scientific Publishing?

APE Pre-Conference Day19 January 2015 Berlin

Alexander GrossmannPresident and Co-FounderScienceOpen


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Scientific communication is changing…

Social Networks

Communities

Crowd-sourcing

Open DataOpen Access

Repositories

Altmetrics

Open peer review


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Traditional Publishing Current Trends

journals = content containers interdisciplinary databasefor specific discipline = „megajournal“

IF does not provide information article level metricsabout relevance of research

no data available open data

limiting article type to open to reproduction papersoriginal or „new“ research and negative results studies

static publication „living“ document; versioning

closed peer-review open evaluation; anonymous reviewers post-publication peer-review

no credits for reviewer acknowledgement of reviews

no interaction between (open) communication andauthors and readers active feedback

content is paywalled open access (OA)

library pays for APCs paid by governmentaljournal subscriptions or institutional funding partners

authors prefer prestigous andhighly ranked journals to publish ?Alexander Grossmann APE Berlin 19 January 2015

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… the challenge

Researchers of all disciplines are bothered by

� Too long publication cycles: several months up to a year.

� No open access to research findings: journals segment and pay-wall content to make it hard to browse and read.

� Too expensive: their libraries cannot afford increasing pricing for research literature.

� No transparency in the review process: Quality assessment via traditional journals is done anonymously behind closed doors.

� No interaction among researchers: print-based workflow in scholarly publishing industry prevents discourse.


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… the opportunity

The internet can fundamentally change the

scholarly publishing paradigm

� Immediate publication and worldwide open access.

� No need for journals as “container”.

� Publishing becomes a service and fees can be based on the real costs of publication.

� Research impact can be measured on article level and journal Impact Factors lose meaning.

� Public discourse on scientific research in blogs, social media, scientific networks and on PubMed Commons.


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WissenschaftlerWissenschaftler

= Autoren

= Leser

= Gutachter

Begutachtung

(Peer Review) ?

? ?

?Wie könnte ein

Publikationsmodell

aussehen, dass die

Community selbst

organisiert?

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… our answer: ScienceOpen!


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ScienceOpen … the core idea

Use the power of professional networks to openly …

� access

� publish

� exchange

� collaborate

� communicate

� discuss + evaluate

… scientific results


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ScienceOpen … access


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ScienceOpen … publish


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ScienceOpen … exchange


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ScienceOpen … collaborate


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ScienceOpen … collaborate


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ScienceOpen … communicate


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ScienceOpen … communicate


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ScienceOpen … discuss + evaluate


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Business concept

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Business concept

Free services

�Access: browse, search & comment

�Network: connect & communicate

�Organize: draft manuscripts & discuss with

colleagues

Paid Services: Publication fee per item

�DOI assignment

�Copy- and Language editing

�XML conversion

�Hosting & archiving, A&IAlexander Grossmann APE Berlin 19 January 2015

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Business concept

Customers are ...

� Individual researchers

� Institutions, universities

� Scholarly societies

� Funding organizations

� Publishers


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Benefits for customers….

Societies & Publishers:�Better visibility of journal content

�More usage and citations

�Customized design of journals’ website

�Full publishing services

�Typesetting

�Language and copy editing

�CrossRef linking

�DOI assignment

�Abstracting & Indexing, Google Scholar

�Transparent pricing per article


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Who is behind ScienceOpen?

� Our Team:

�Stephanie Dawson, CEO

�Tibor Tscheke, CFO/CTO,

Co-Founder ScienceOpen

�Alexander Grossmann,

Co-Founder ScienceOpen

�Liz Allen, VP Marketing

�Sebastian Alers, Senior Editor

�Richard Gallagher, Cons.Editor

�Nana Bit-Avragim, Editor


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What is ScienceOpen?

�ScienceOpen is a next generation Open Access communication platform.

�ScienceOpen offers immediate publication

�ScienceOpen is crowd-sourced with network-based peer-review

�ScienceOpen has a whole suite of social-networking and collaboration tools….

�…for 12m researchers worldwide and 4m new articles per year


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�All scholarly disciplines

�Daily import of articles from OA ressources

�Public Post-Publication Peer Review (PPPR)

�Alternative article level metrics (Altmetrics)

�ScienceOpen Publication types: articles, letters, reviews, case reports, negative results, posters

�DOI provision for all types of publications

�ORCID integration of users’ profiles


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ScienceOpen is a research and publishing network

Link to a short introduction (30s-Video):

http://youtu.be/pzvDMF2z8_I?list=PLOighaNoiPsnsZ-AAF0u5M2iTiUO2fo3u


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Some very recent highlights…

� Collections: set-up and run your own

public list of most important open

access articles


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access articles

� Expert search: refine your search to

target relevant papers & save it

� Max-Planck collaboration: Authors

which are affiliated with an MPI will

publish w/o APCs in 2015


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Thank you very much!

Contact: Prof. Dr. Alexander Grossmann

ScienceOpen GmbH – ScienceOpen, Inc.

Germany: Pappelallee 78/79, 10437 BerlinU.S.: 60 Mall Rd., Burlington/Boston, MA 01803

Tel: +49-30-6098490-277

Twitter: @SciPubLab

E-Mail:[email protected]@[email protected]

ScienceOpen

scienceopencom

@Science_Open


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Thanks to our partners…


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If you want to learn more about…

� Short video intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzvDMF2z8_I

� ScienceOpen at a glance

http://about.scienceopen.com/

� What is ScienceOpen?

https://www.scienceopen.com/external/what_is_so

� FAQs:

https://www.scienceopen.com/external/faqs

� Press room

http://about.scienceopen.com/press-room/


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