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The Digital Publishing Revolution: Transforming Scholarly Communication for a New Era

The transition from traditional paper journals to web-native science marks the beginning of the second digital revolution in scholarly publishing. With the advent of online journals and the significant reduction in publication costs, capturing the scholarly record is easier than ever. However, simply digitizing existing processes is not sufficient; we must leverage new technologies and data-driven methods to filter, measure, and disseminate research effectively. This paper explores how decentralized journals and altmetrics can revolutionize the accessibility and impact of scholarly work.

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The Digital Publishing Revolution: Transforming Scholarly Communication for a New Era

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  1. In the beginning was the letter slow expensive much duplication best solution given available technology

  2. Oldenburg publishesPhil. Trans; applies the best available technology (printing press) to vastly improve dissemination. In 1665, the first revolution:

  3. The Second Revolution has just begun. With publication nearly free, it becomes trivial to capture the missing pieces of the scholarly record.

  4. But journals are already online... Your revolution is over, sir! "The Digital Publishing Revolution Is Over"

  5. Online journals are paper journals delivered by faster horses.

  6. Instead of moving paper products faster, we can create web-native science.

  7. Web-native science means we can start making public, not merely "Publishing."

  8. But how do we filter?

  9. Bibliometrics measures citation

  10. Altmetrics measures impact:

  11. Build boats. Don't turn offthe taps,

  12. The network is the key Bollen, J., Van de Sompel, H., Hagberg, A., Bettencourt, L., Chute, R., Rodriguez, M. A., & Balakireva, L. (2009). Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science. PLoS ONE, 4(3), e4803. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004803

  13. At web scale, the value isn't in manual curation... (ask these guys)

  14. It's in mining the network (ask these guys)

  15. What does the system do now? Any modernization will have to do everything the current system does, better. Journals have four “traditional functions.”

  16. How does this system work? Every journal does every function itself. Each produces the same product. Little variety, little choice: publishing as a fixed-price menu.

  17. The decoupled journal (DcJ) Functions are offered as individual services; authors pick which ones they want: Publishing a la carte.

  18. A DcJ example

  19. The second revolution has started. Once we have altmetric data, it’s too useful to ignore; alternative filters and even certification paths based on this data will open. As Peter Vinkler says, citation graph data is like Chekhov’s gun: once on stage, it has to be fired.

  20. A wise man, that Chekov.

  21. Thanks! Advisors:  • Brad Hemminger,  • Todd Vision Funders:  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation • DataONE • Dryad  • National Science Foundation • Open Society Foundations  • Royster Society of Fellows

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