How can a research scientist make sure his publications are future-proof? Make everything citable, embrace open access and use social media to market your findings!
Presented at the EUROIMPACT session of the 13th EAPC Prague June 2013
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The Future of Science Publishing - Max Haring
1. The Future of Science
Publishing
Max Haring, PhD
Executive editor, SpringerPlus
Max.haring@springer.com
EUROIMPACT session, 13th EAPC Prague June 2013
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Overview
• About Springer
• SpringerPlus
• Open Access
• Read and re-use
• Cite everything!
• Science goes Social
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About Springer
• Science / Technology / Medicine (STM)
• Professional Publishing (B2B)
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SpringerPlus (www.springerplus.com)
• Open Access
• Online Only
• Peer-reviewed
• International editorial board
• For all Disciplines in STEM and HSS
• Never out of scope!
• All article types
• No focus on impact factor
• Accepts low-cited work
• Efficient and predictable
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Open Access Publishing
Free to read
Free to re-use
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Easier to find & use relevant
literature
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Increases the visibility, readership
and impact of author’s works
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Creates new ways of use
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Enhances interdisciplinary
research
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Accelerates the pace of research,
discovery and innovation
http://www.sparc.arl.org/openaccess/why-oa.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/jul/17/open-access-scientific-research
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What else can be open?
Peer-review
• Reviewers name and comments are available
• Open Post-pub Peer-review
Manuscripts
• Pre-publication history
• Revisions and comments
Data
• Research output, images, algorithms, software code, statistics, …
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Open Science: for the public
Eyewire.org „Connectomics‟
• 3D stacks of 2D SEM images – retinal neurons
• Gamers follow neurons through stacks
• Create physical map, develop better mapping software
“By playing EyeWire, you
become a part of the
Seung Lab at MIT”
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Cite Data!
Publish your data!
• Linked to journal article
• Data with its own DOI
• Citable
• Impact calculation
Data mandates
• US: NHF, NIH, NASA, CDC
• EU: Horizon 2020, Wellcome Trust
• Publish with DOI !
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Future: Cite facts, ideas, people, relationships
Sources of open data, September 2010 (CC-BY-SA – DBpedia)
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Citations come from everywhere!
Scholarly citations|
Non-scholarly citation
• News coverage
• Twitter, Facebook, Google+
• Blogs, Wikipedia
25,000
Post-publication comments
• Faculty of 1000
• Mendeley, ResearchGate,
Academia.edu, Papers
24052
187.480
20,000
15,000
Data for Sept 2012
10,000
5,000
0
2077
2195
471
833
73
174
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Which article made a bigger impact?
• Article with many citations
• Article widely discussed in the social web
• Article with lots of downloads
• Article discussed on CNN
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The Future is now!
Everyone reads before citing!
• Get read!
Be Future Proof!
• Publish Open Access
• Make your data available
• Use Social Media, Blogs, websites
• Comment on Mendelay, Papers etc.
• Add Altmetrics to your CV
• Always use the DOI as a reference
OK, so you need to start writing, how do you structure the actual manuscript itself?One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard from an experienced researcher with lots of publications to their name, is that in your manuscript, or your thesis or any sort of scientific report, you are telling a story. And it’s a story about your research. Like all stories, it needs to have a beginning, a middle and an end.[Question: Using a show of hands, how many people have heard of the IMRaD or expanded IMRaD model?]IMRaD refers to the major sections that normally comprise a scientific manuscript and the order in which they are presented. The Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. But over time this has expanded somewhat to include other sections. Of course, depending on your field of study and target journal, your manuscript may not include all these sections and in other cases may have extra sections.
OK, so you need to start writing, how do you structure the actual manuscript itself?One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard from an experienced researcher with lots of publications to their name, is that in your manuscript, or your thesis or any sort of scientific report, you are telling a story. And it’s a story about your research. Like all stories, it needs to have a beginning, a middle and an end.[Question: Using a show of hands, how many people have heard of the IMRaD or expanded IMRaD model?]IMRaD refers to the major sections that normally comprise a scientific manuscript and the order in which they are presented. The Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. But over time this has expanded somewhat to include other sections. Of course, depending on your field of study and target journal, your manuscript may not include all these sections and in other cases may have extra sections.
OK, so you need to start writing, how do you structure the actual manuscript itself?One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard from an experienced researcher with lots of publications to their name, is that in your manuscript, or your thesis or any sort of scientific report, you are telling a story. And it’s a story about your research. Like all stories, it needs to have a beginning, a middle and an end.[Question: Using a show of hands, how many people have heard of the IMRaD or expanded IMRaD model?]IMRaD refers to the major sections that normally comprise a scientific manuscript and the order in which they are presented. The Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. But over time this has expanded somewhat to include other sections. Of course, depending on your field of study and target journal, your manuscript may not include all these sections and in other cases may have extra sections.
OK, so you need to start writing, how do you structure the actual manuscript itself?One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard from an experienced researcher with lots of publications to their name, is that in your manuscript, or your thesis or any sort of scientific report, you are telling a story. And it’s a story about your research. Like all stories, it needs to have a beginning, a middle and an end.[Question: Using a show of hands, how many people have heard of the IMRaD or expanded IMRaD model?]IMRaD refers to the major sections that normally comprise a scientific manuscript and the order in which they are presented. The Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. But over time this has expanded somewhat to include other sections. Of course, depending on your field of study and target journal, your manuscript may not include all these sections and in other cases may have extra sections.