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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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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
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SocietyFamily
Research Knowledge
Planet
Your life
Hobbies
© Tiehuis et al., Diabetologia 51:1321–1326, 2008
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How do you maximise
efficiency in generating
impact for your research?
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In the last five years...?
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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
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• 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
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• 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
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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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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.
