publishing and the future of stm
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Publishing moving to the web and the changes in STM and academic publishing. Presented at If Book Then Summer Edition 2012, Milan Italy.TRANSCRIPT
peter brantley if book then internet archive 2012 summer edition san francisco ca milan, italty
The internet is the largest public works project that the world has ever seen.
The future of all publishing is increasingly defined by efforts of technology firms, not by publishers.
Apple, Amazon, Google, MSFT present comprehensive, proprietary consumer-‐facing content distribution platforms.
These U.S. west coast firms have created content catalogs (iTunes, Google Play) spanning films, games, music, and books, supported by mobile OS (iOS, Android, Win 8), with tablets and mobile phones.
These silos exist because … of the web.
These companies (at heart) are network platforms that rely on the monetization of web traffic.
In publishing, post 20 years of “network industrialization,” the web enables new forms of content to be developed, and new authoring platforms to be created.
IDPF, W3C, and the Readium Project:
Standards organization collaborate to deliver browser-‐based reading.
Platform level collaborative authoring, sophisticated content management.
e.g. Inkling Habitat and Nature Education Interactive Textbooks
Rapid advances in authoring systems permit multimedia writing with little technical expertise
Examples include:
Aerbook Maker Vook Pressbooks The Atavist.
Readlists from Arc90
A Readlist is a group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything—bundled into an e-‐book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone.
STM increasingly “push to publish”:
WordPress : Annotum > PLoS Currents
An open-‐source, open-‐process, open-‐access scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress
Expensive commercial publishing infrastructures are out of date, and affordances no longer as valued.
“… [t]o shut down the operating system of print-‐organized scholarly research and communication.”
-‐ Jerome McGann, Profession 2011, pp. 182–195 (14)
PeerJ (Peter Binfield, Jason Hoyt):
$99, $169, $259 lifetime membership.
Scholars must contribute annually in review, comment, or submission to maintain status.
Easy to play in the “adult” world:
Has an ISSN, will assign DOIs, use ORCID. Will archive in CLOCKSS, PubMedCentral.
“… [w]e have a new type of publication model which allows us to knowingly strip out what is extraneous to the process of publication, allowing us to pass those savings back to the customers (the authors).”
-‐ Pete Binfield, PeerJ
http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2012/06/12/interview-‐with-‐peter-‐binfield-‐and-‐jason-‐hoyt-‐of-‐peerj/
Gold Open Access, CC-‐BY, authors retain copyright.
PloS One, Hindawi, BMC, PeerJ, but also supported by mainstream publishers e.g. Springer.
Re-‐consideration of curation, peer review.
Open submission over selection (PLoS One, PeerJ, arXiv). Open peer review over closed (BMC, PeerJ).
“Altmetrics” used to define worth.
“Biggest development in scholarly communication isn't a [business] model but rather the sense that it's impossible to judge importance ahead of time”
-‐ Dan Cohen, Center for History and New Media
https://twitter.com/dancohen/status/212717007802601473
Arguably the ultimate measure of success for a journal such as PLoS One is to put itself out of business.
Every academic dept … its own journal.
“We believe that the need for PeerJ, or any other publisher, in the future will be to provide tools and services that genuinely add value to the end-‐to-‐end publishing process …”
-‐ Pete Binfield, PeerJ
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-‐topic/digital/content-‐and-‐e-‐books/article/52512-‐scholarly-‐publishing-‐2012-‐meet-‐peerj.html
Easy to marry institutional “Green” OA repositories with new publishing tools.
arXiv : physical sciences SSRN : social sciences, law philpapers : philosophy RePEc : economics
With web based tools and services, network based economies …
academic/research publishing can “detox” the system of the money that now runs it.
Maybe a 5-‐10 year transition to ease out subventions and migrate to community-‐ based publishing.
Every university, its own publishing platform.
Every author, their own publishing tools.
peter brantley
director, bookserver project internet archive
@naypinya (twitter, gmail)