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*Stresses the re-use part of CC licenses (e.g. for [[Chordoma|images]]) — an aspect of OA publishing that does not receive much attention outside research blogs (cf. [http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jono/item/toc.html detailed discussion] with respect to the [http://www.aps.org/ American Physical Society], [http://arxiv.org/ arxiv] and [http://www.quantiki.org/ Quantiki], and the [http://rmp.aps.org/edannounce/PhysRevLett.101.140001 final outcome: APS authors keep copyright over derivative works]). | *Stresses the re-use part of CC licenses (e.g. for [[Chordoma|images]]) — an aspect of OA publishing that does not receive much attention outside research blogs (cf. [http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jono/item/toc.html detailed discussion] with respect to the [http://www.aps.org/ American Physical Society], [http://arxiv.org/ arxiv] and [http://www.quantiki.org/ Quantiki], and the [http://rmp.aps.org/edannounce/PhysRevLett.101.140001 final outcome: APS authors keep copyright over derivative works]). | ||
==Quality assessment== | |||
In principle, any system of peer review can be implemented on a wiki: The usual single-blind as well as double-blind or open peer review, with the reviewers or even authors always or optionally, temporarily or permanently remaining anonymous, with simple accept/ revise/ reject decisions or interactive two-stage or multi-stage discussions, in public or hidden from it (possibly even in part), before and/ or after formal publication. | |||
Some wiki examples: | |||
#Scholarpedia | |||
#EoEarth | |||
#Citizendium | |||
Some non-wiki examples: | |||
#Copernicus journals | |||
#PLoS journals | |||
#Frontiers journals | |||
#BMC journals | |||
#[http://www.semantic-web-journal.net Semantic Web journal] | |||
#[http://math.rejecta.org/ Rejecta Mathematics] | |||
==Business models== | ==Business models== | ||
Revision as of 13:41, 20 July 2010
Background
(CC) Image: Public Library of Science
Do journals provide sufficient contextualization for research?
Do journals provide sufficient contextualization for research?
- For technical reasons, publishing was historically a separate step, performed about once per iteration of the research cycle
- Publishing every relevant bit of information immediately at each step is technically feasible now, and the remaining hurdles are cultural ones.
- Wikis allow for systematic linking and thus enhanced contextualization (sidenote: some have argued that links are distracting)
- Overview of the evolution of wikis and wiki-like environments
- Mentions MediaWiki plugin for Wordpress
- Etherpad
- Google Docs
Wikis as platforms for science communication
- Wikis can be used, in principle, for any aspect of scholarly communication, as detailed in this comparison of wiki- and paper-based communication systems and the related blog post.
- Examples exist for all steps of the research cycle, except successful applications to major funders (see this overview for some attempts)
- Benchmark: English Wikipedia
Wikis as platforms for scholarly publishing
(CC) Image: Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth — a wiki with overview articles reviewed by experts, available under CC-BY-SA
Encyclopedia of Earth — a wiki with overview articles reviewed by experts, available under CC-BY-SA
- The idea is not new — WikiSciencePublication stated in 2006:
- "Somewhere at the fringe of science, someone will start using wiki publishing for science publishing."
- Conferences: Stand-alone site / contextualized schedule / contextualized talks and Posters (possibly also as clickable imagemaps, like here), presentations
- Research papers: Accompanied by wiki article (progress report), contextualized on-wiki, links to wikis amongst other sources, integrated into database
- Publication lists (incl. supplementary materials and in principle direct links to the raw data)
- built-in article-level metrics at bottom of page and via What links here (which could also be used for other pages, e.g. those hosting images, references, or datasets), author-level metrics via Special:Contributions, further aggregation possible (e.g. at the level of research projects, labs or thematic workgroups)
- Knol shares some aspects with wikis and blogs and is already in use for PLoS Currents.
Wikis as platforms for Open Access publishing
- The majority of wiki platforms are open access by default, and most variants of wiki software can handle user rights in great detail
- Stresses the re-use part of CC licenses (e.g. for images) — an aspect of OA publishing that does not receive much attention outside research blogs (cf. detailed discussion with respect to the American Physical Society, arxiv and Quantiki, and the final outcome: APS authors keep copyright over derivative works).
Quality assessment
In principle, any system of peer review can be implemented on a wiki: The usual single-blind as well as double-blind or open peer review, with the reviewers or even authors always or optionally, temporarily or permanently remaining anonymous, with simple accept/ revise/ reject decisions or interactive two-stage or multi-stage discussions, in public or hidden from it (possibly even in part), before and/ or after formal publication.
Some wiki examples:
- Scholarpedia
- EoEarth
- Citizendium
Some non-wiki examples:
- Copernicus journals
- PLoS journals
- Frontiers journals
- BMC journals
Business models
- Main ones: author-pays, (partial) subscription, philanthropy, advertising, premium services
Opportunities
- Article-specific Job ads (e.g. via subpages)
- Wiki for Calls For Papers
- Post-publication peer review: Faculty of 1000, The Third Reviewer, Rejecta Mathematica
- Wiki export, or standardized XML or HTML output that could be imported to a wiki via some xml2wiki or similar converters
- Image search (example) and annotation
- Search by license (prototypes: journals, images)
- Integration of non-text media with text (just like images; non-wiki audio example)
- Also for references
Notes
Essential elements of science publishing:
- Research
- Documentation
- Making things public
- Integration with previous and future knowledge
- Discussion