Sea Change: Challenges and Opportunities in the Publishing Ecosystem
April 21, 2016
Opening Session
Alice Meadows, ORCiD, Role of ORCiD in the scholarly ecosystem
Kristin Ratan, Collaboration Knowledge Foundation
Mike Conlon, Science, collaboration, and data
Breakout 1 – small publishers and metadata
What is important for publshers
Metadata. From authors. Through scholar. One and others
How. Important is organizational substructure to publishers? What would substructure be used for?
Breakout 2 – What comes next – org identifiers, attribution
What comes next? org identifiers, attribution
Roger Schonfeld Ithaka S+R
Transformation from print to. Electronic
Transformation of workflows -- bundling, cataloging, indexing
Transformation of role -- from providing content to facilitating outcomes
Travis Rich @istravis
Grad student at MIT
Journals from scratch
Open source, open workflow for open publication. Google docile (markdown) enhanced.
Thinking differently about scholarship. Write, publish, review, collaborate, revise, …
Grassroots journals -- free to launch, free to curate, focus on work of importance
Journal of design science
Launched Feb 24
Will be able to create doi.
Sara Bowman @osframework
Realigning incentives: registered reports
Move peer review after the design phase
The journal “Cortex” is publishing “registered reports”. Now 20 journals.
Phill Jones, Digital Science @phillbjones
Overview of ecosystem.
Digital lab notebook. Compliance. Identifiers.
