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Publishing in the future: is the Global South leapfrogging?

Jan Velterop – 20 June 2014. Publishing in the future: is the Global South leapfrogging?. A UK-based publishing services company:.

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Publishing in the future: is the Global South leapfrogging?

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  1. Jan Velterop – 20 June 2014 Publishing in the future: is the Global South leapfrogging?

  2. A UK-based publishing services company: “It is possible to find good typesetting suppliers in many countries, and locations such as India, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Philippines also host high-quality suppliers. And offshore suppliers now offer a wide range of services, not just page layout. Many UK typesetters have gone out of business as a result. We, too, lost work to typesetting companies overseas who charged lower rates than us (and which we couldn’t match), but outsourcing has never threatened our core business, namely project management and editing.” • Dream on

  3. Outsourcing Where would we be without quasi slave labour?

  4. By the way… Most of what science publishers do is done in emerging economies

  5. made in China • made and branded in China

  6. Why is it not happening in science publishing?

  7. Beall-effect? • beallious – bealligerent – beallicose • Publishers with foreign* names being seen as “predatory” • *non-English, non-European

  8. arXiv:1406.4331 • [which are practically invisible in Google]

  9. Vestiges of a world of empires and colonialism

  10. Research is spreading to the global South… …and so is publishing • Western countries allocate more resources to biomedicine; Russia and former Soviet countries excel in physics, mathematics and engineering; and a third group of countries strongly focus on agriculture and fisheries science. • http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/El-mapa-de-la-investigacion-mundial-mas-completo-divide-el-planeta-en-tres-grandes-bloques

  11. Two examples • Hindawi • SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) • Publisher • Publishing ‘approach’

  12. In September 2012, Ahmed Hindawi revealed: “Our results for the first half of 2012 show revenues of $6.3m with a net profit of $3.3m.”

  13. of Collections of Journals* Not so much a ‘publisher’ as a ‘publishing approach’ Deposit Hosting/Delivery Preservation • * SciELO Brasil also books

  14. Journals in SciELO are not ‘published by’ SciELO, • but are independent entities • (Chile) • Cost of publications: Authors are encouraged to submit color illustrations when the color conveys essential scientific information. Color reproduction will be subsidized by the publisher, reducing author costs to  US$300 per page. (Articles in black and white = US$250). All articles including the translation of the summary to Spanish will be reviewed at a rate of US $50-  per article.

  15. Much interest in South American science, currently

  16. Pure coincidence, of course

  17. NewScientist 14 June 2014

  18. Nature 14 June 2014

  19. http://figshare.com/articles/Culture_change_in_academia_Making_sharing_the_new_norm_/1053008http://figshare.com/articles/Culture_change_in_academia_Making_sharing_the_new_norm_/1053008

  20. http://figshare.com/articles/Culture_change_in_academia_Making_sharing_the_new_norm_/1053008http://figshare.com/articles/Culture_change_in_academia_Making_sharing_the_new_norm_/1053008

  21. http://figshare.com/articles/Culture_change_in_academia_Making_sharing_the_new_norm_/1053008http://figshare.com/articles/Culture_change_in_academia_Making_sharing_the_new_norm_/1053008

  22. Reading is on the wane

  23. Even just reading everything that’s relevant has become humanly impossible • Embarras du choix

  24. What do we do? What do we need?

  25. First • Overview

  26. Then • Detail

  27. Predicate • Object • Subject • An approach: • extract significant assertions/statements

  28. Lazarus: • identifying assertions of ‘scientific significance’…

  29. … semantically normalising them • and finding them in other articles

  30. What if we had vast numbers of those assertions/statements, “semantically normalised”, available and suitable for machine-reading?

  31. They could be ‘harvested’ from open access literature And ‘crowdsourced’ – via researchers and students – from paywalled literature

  32. Getting the picture from a large number of data points • ‘Whole-o-gram’

  33. Getting a better picture from even more data points

  34. Homing in • on detail

  35. My expectation It will be outfits from the Global South that… • substantially grow open access publishing • comprehensively aggregate knowledge in the form of machine-readable assertions • fundamentally change peer-review practices Why? They are not impeded by legacy issues the way publishers in the US and Europe are!

  36. Thank You

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