Timing young researchers' decisions

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This is a presentation intended to stimulate discussion during the FEBS YSF Career Session at http://www.febs2009.org/special-events.html , where I was to represent http://www.eurodoc.net. Based in large parts upon presentations by Björn Brembs ( http://www.slideshare.net/brembs/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-today-ii ), Cameron Neylon ( http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/nesta-science-in-society ) and Duncan Hull ( http://www.slideshare.net/dullhunk/defrosting-the-digital-library-a-survey-of-bibliographic-tools-for-the-next-generation-web ). License: CC-BY unless noted otherwise on the slides.

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Timing your decisions

daniel.mietchen@uni-jena.defor www.eurodoc.net34th FEBS Congress, Praha, July 5, 2009

Cameron Neylon http://www.flickr.com/photos/24801682@N08/3662760870/ CC-BY

SurveysGender

equality

Think tank on doctoral research in Europe

Mobility

PhD supervision

and training

Eurodoc overview

The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers

Aim : Increase Europe's attractiveness for Early Stage Researchers

Federation of national organisations: 32 Members

Career

development

Partner of EC, EUA and others in Bologna and Lisbon processes

(after Lara Passante, EC)

http://twitter.com/CameronNeylon/status/2325135458Cameron Neylon

Björn Brembs

http://twitter.com/lorddrayson/statuses/2346918193Cameron Neylon

Björn Brembs

SocietyFamily

Research Knowledge

Planet

Your life

Hobbies

© Tiehuis et al., Diabetologia 51:1321–1326, 2008

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http://twitter.com/larsjuhljensen/statuses/2315036730Cameron Neylon

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How do you maximise

efficiency in generating

impact for your research?

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In the last five years...?

Cameron Neylon

What is...

http://www.fickr.com/photos/schnurrbart/43568532/ CC-BY-SA...?Cameron Neylon

Too much to read, and neither

searchable nor hyperlinked...

http://www.fickr.com/photos/orinrobertjohn/2188277801 CC-BYCameron Neylon

www.scopus.com

www.pubmed.gov

http://ukpmc.ac.uk

isiknowledge.com

scholar.google.com Duncan Hull

...in the past 24 hours?Cameron Neylon

afterDuncan Hull http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/3389581452/ CC-BY

What would science look like

if it were invented today?

Björn Brembs, Freie Universität Berlin

http://brembs.net

http://www.slideshare.net/brembs/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-today-ii

• Isolation – each discipline has its own data silo

• Impersonal and unsociable – “who the hell are you”?– Where are “my” papers? (authored by me, or of interest

to me)– What are my friends and colleagues reading?– What are the experts reading? What is popular this week

/ month / year ?• “Cold”: Identity of publications and authors is inadequate• Obsolete models of publication, not everything fits publication-sized holes

– Micro-attribution– Mega-attribution– Digital contributions (databases, software, wikis/blogs?)

Duncan Hull

Yesterday Today

Paper Bits and bytes

Brick and mortar libraries Cyberspace

Institute library address Uniform resource identifiers (URIs)

High cost of printing and distribution Publishing costs fallen by orders of magnitude

Only comprehensible to a few humans Read and indexed by machines (e.g.,

Googlebot)

Restricted access to a few subscribers Increasingly public

Björn Brembs

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Björn Brembs

• Won‘t go away

• Should always be a last resort

• They are much too valuable to be satisfied with the current pitiful state of affairs

• Let‘s make them as good as we possibly can!

Björn Brembs

Your article:• Received X citations (de-duped from Google

Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science)• It was viewed X times, placing it in the top Y%

of all articles in this journal/community• It received X Comments• It was bookmarked X times in Social

Bookmarking sites• Experts in your community rated it as X, Y, Z• It was discussed on X ‘respected’ blogs • It appeared in X, Y, Z International News

mediaPeter BinfieldBjörn Brembs

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mendeley.com

zotero.org

connotea.org

www.mekentosj.com

hubmed.org

Re-couple metadata that has be de-coupled from data

2collab.com

refworks.com

“iTunes for PDF files”

citeulike.org

Björn Brembs

• No more publishers – libraries archive everything according to a world-wide standard

• Single semantic, decentralized database of data in context• Personalized filtering• Peer-review after posting, supervised by an independent body• Link typology for text/text, data/data and text/data links

(formerly „citations“)• Semantic Text/Datamining• All the metrics you (don‘t) want (but need)• Tagging, bookmarking, etc.• Unique contributor IDs with attribution/reputation system

(teaching, reviewing, curating, blogging, etc.)• Technically feasible today (almost)

http://www.slideshare.net/brembs/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-today-iiBjörn Brembs

How would knowledge sharing look like if it were invented today?

Not just papers, but ideas, web pages, data, materials, software

Cameron Neylon

http://tinyurl.com/dku869Cameron Neylon

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...making the right connections

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Make your work available

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Let others build on it...

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...to increase your impact

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http://twitter.com/EvoMRI/statuses/2316110674

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OK, but what about timing all

these decisions?

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If you share as things arise, timing is not

the issue.

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The issue is whether or not to do science in the open, especially if you are a young

researcher.

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