The Big Picture: Open Access content aggregators as drivers of impact

ReCon ConferenceEdinburgh, 19 June 2015

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2Information overload

Yearly ca. 1.8 million articles published in around 28,000 scholarly journals.

And more on the way… Digitalization – new outlets

Economic logic of Open Access

Publication of negative results, all clinical trials, data sets, micro- publications

China, India, Brazil and others entering the research community

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3Discovery

How do researchers find relevant articles? Search engines (Google)

Indexing services (pubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, SciELO)

Networking (Social media, conferences)

Topical bundling (journals, collections)

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Ranking knowledge

Orientation Context Inspiration Time-saving

But also.. Reputation Career

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Journal-based tools: Impact Factor

“Impact Factor—Negotiated, Irreproducible, and Unsound”Brembs, Button, Munafò

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Impact Factor Economy

7Article-based tools

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Usage statistics Social media mentions Mentions in news media, blogs,

podcasts Citations in scientific literature Open Peer Review reports Comments Inclusion in citation management

tools (Mendeley, CiteuLike)

8The opportunity

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Open Access making large numbers of structured research articles available across all publishers. Let‘s play!

9Case Study: ScienceOpen

10What is ScienceOpen?

ScienceOpen is a next generation Open Access communication platform.

1.5 million aggregated Open Access articles open to Post-Pub Peer Review and Collection building.

Suite of social-networking and collaboration tools. ScienceOpen as publisher offers immediate publication

after editorial check with a transparent, network-based peer-review afterward.

11Article page: Share, comment, review

12Content aggregation on ScienceOpen

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Advanced search functionalities Saved searches with notification when new

content is added Search for similar content on ScienceOpen Altmetric information on every paper Commenting and Post-Publication Peer Review

(with trackable CrossRef DOI for reports) on all content

What‘s missing? – The ability to rank articles

13Coming soon…

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Citation information within the ScienceOpen platform

Reference “stubs“ for content not on the platform (ca. 10 million to start)

Author profiles Content ranking Recommendation function from a

range of parameters

14Future of scholarly communication

What aspects of scholarly journals are most important to users?

Topic-specific bundling Editorial selection Quality assurance Trust and reliability

ScienceOpen Collections provide these functions beyond individual publishers or journals.

15ScienceOpen Collections

16Researcher-driven collections

17Publisher branding on ScienceOpen

18New journal promotion: Thieme

19Best of OA promotion: IUCr

20In summary…

Beyond the Impact Factor: we need new ways to rate and rank content across publishers

New tools for content owners (publishers, societies, authors) to promote their work

Aggregators leading the way

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21Thank you!

Stephanie Dawson, PhD

ScienceOpen GmbHPappelallee 78/7910437 Berlin, Germany

Skype: dawson_scienceopenTwitter: @SDawsonBerlinMobile: +49-176-72614581Tel: +49-30-6098490-277Stephanie.Dawson@ScienceOpen.com

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