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Scholarly Publishing 2.0 Doug Clow [email protected] http://dougclow.wordpress.com 10 February 2009
Scholarly Publishing 2.0
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- 1. Scholarly Publishing 2.0 Doug Clow [email_address]
http://dougclow.wordpress.com 10 February 2009
- 2. What is scholarly publishing?
- 3.
- A distinctive sort of conversation by researchers
- 4.
- Blogs, podcasts (iTunesU), SlideShare, YouTube
- Conference presentations/papers
- 5. information explosion
- 6.
- eJournals (all e collections)
- OU Library federated search
There is no such thing as information overload, only filter failure
(Clay Shirky)
- 7. What really counts?
- 8.
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- Citation counts, impact factors
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- h-index (N papers with N citations)
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- Worse outside academia Technorati (!)
- Quality, impact Peer review
- 9. follow the money
- 10.
- Marginal cost of publishing is zero
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- - Moores Law: costs halve every 18 months
- E-journal price inflation >10% every year
- Publishing costs alone now 575m/y
- 11. Per-article costs
- 12.
- 13. peer review 2.0
- 14. JIME
- Radical open publishing with quality
- Author blogs submission draft
- Author blogs revised draft
- 15. So what?
- 16.
- Quantitative change (more, faster, easier)
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- Open access important, but small beer (libraries traditionally
open, seamless sign-on)
- 17.
- Houghton et al, Economic implications of alternative scholarly
publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits, JISC,
2009
- Clay Shirky
http://www.cjr.org/overload/interview_with_clay_shirky_par.php?page=all
- Twitter: @ciphergoth @mweller @andrew_x @jvvw @Marmara
@francesbell @agneskh @KarenK @rjconnelly
- Photos: Erica Marshall of muddyboots.org
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