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.
3. 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 Membe
Think tank on doctoral research in Europe Mobilit
y
PhD
supervision
and training
Career
Gender
Survey developmen
equality s t
(after Lara Passante,
EC)
Partner of EC, EUA and others
in Bologna and Lisbon processes
23. W w
hat ould science look like
if it w invented today?
ere
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24. Björn Brembs, Freie Universität Berlin
http://brembs.net
http://www.slideshare.net/brembs/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-today-ii
25. tion
discipline has its own data silo
ersonal and unsociable
the hell are you”?
re are “my” papers? (authored by me, or of interest to me)
t are my friends and colleagues reading?
t are the experts reading? What is popular this week / month / year ?
d”: Identity of publications and authors is inadequate
olete models of publication, not everything fits publication-sized holes
o-attribution
a-attribution
al contributions (databases, software, wikis/blogs?)
Duncan Hull
26. Y esterday T oday
P aper B its and bytes
B rick and mortar libraries C ybers pace
Ins titute library addres s Uniform res ource identifiers (UR Is )
High cos t of printing and dis tribution P ublis hing cos ts fallen by orders of
magnitude
O nly comprehens ible to a few humans R ead and indexed by machines (e.g.,
G ooglebot)
R es tricted acces s to a few s ubs cribers Increas ingly public
Björn Brembs
29. y
be a last resort
h too valuable to be satisfied with the current pitiful
m as good as we possibly can!
Björn Brembs
30. tations (de-duped from Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of
d X times, placing it in the top Y% of all articles in this journa
Comments
arked X times in Social Bookmarking sites
ur community rated it as X, Y, Z
sed on X ‘respected’ blogs
n X, Y, Z International News media
Peter Binfield
Björn Brembs
32. refworks.com
zotero.org
hubmed.org mendeley.com
2collab.com
connotea.org citeulike.org
Re-couple metadata that has be de-coupled from data
www.mekentosj.com
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33. How would knowledge sharing look like if it were invented
today?
ers – libraries archive everything according to a world-wide standard
decentralized database of data in context
ering
r posting, supervised by an independent body
r text/text, data/data and text/data links (formerly „citations“)
Datamining
ou (don‘t) want (but need)
arking, etc.
tor IDs with attribution/reputation system (teaching, reviewing, curating
ble today (almost)
Björn Brembs
http://www.slideshare.net/brembs/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-today-ii