scholarly journals Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Publishing Education ◽  
Young Researchers

After showing how the advent of the internet, in an almost opposite fashion to what happened to newspaper publishing, has led to further flourishing of the $25 billion scholarly publishing industry, I show how the unexpected expansion of preprints to all scientific disciplines beyond physics, mathematics and computer science is actually reshaping scientific communication at large and then, inevitably, scientific publishing. I thus provide arguments substantiating my viewpoint on why and how expanding the education of today’s students and young researchers to include modern scholarly communication will be instrumental for the transition to open science.

scholarly journals Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Annual Income ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Publishing Education ◽  
Young Researchers

Originally created for facilitating scientific communication, the internet in principle makes scientific journals no longer necessary. Yet, in an almost opposite fashion to what happened to newspaper publishing, the $25 billion annual income scholarly publishing industry has further flourished following the advent of the internet. Expanding the education of today’s students and young researchers to include modern scholarly communication is the key requisite for the transition to open science.

scholarly journals Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Internet Education ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Publishing Education

Scholarly journals today are the products of a large industry comprised of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, whose annual income exceeds $25 billion. Originally created for facilitating scientific communication, the World Wide Web in principle makes scientific journals no longer necessary. Yet, in an almost opposite fashion to what happened in retail publishing, the academic publishing industry has further flourished following the advent of the internet. Education of today’s students and young researchers, we argue in this study, is the key enabler for the transition to open science.

scholarly journals Publishing Scientific Articles in the Digital Era

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Conventional Process ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Young Researchers

In the digital era in which over 4 billion people regularly access the internet, the conventional process of publishing scientific articles in academic journals following peer review is undergoing profound changes. Following physics and mathematics scholars who started to publish their work on the freely accessible arXiv server in the early 1990s, researchers of all disciplines increasingly publish scientific articles in the form of freely accessible and fully citeable preprints before or in parallel to conventional submission to academic journals for peer review. The full transition to open science, I argue in this study, requires to expand the education of students and young researchers to include scholarly communication in the digital era.

scholarly journals Publishing scientific articles in the digital era

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Conventional Process ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Young Researchers

In the digital era in which over 4 billion people regularly access the internet, the conventional process of publishing scientific articles in academic journals following peer review is undergoing profound changes. Following physics and mathematics scholars who started to publish their work on the freely accessible arXiv server in the early 1990s, researchers of all disciplines increasingly publish scientific articles in the form of freely accessible and fully citeable preprints before or in parallel to conventional submission to academic journals for peer review. The full transition to open science, I argue in this study, requires to expand the education of students and young researchers to include scholarly communication in the digital era.

scholarly journals Preprints in Chemistry: An Exploratory Analysis of Differences with Journal Articles

Publications ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
Wealth Of Nations ◽  
New Education ◽  
Young Researchers

The exploratory analysis of the differences between preprints and the corresponding peer reviewed journal articles for ten studies first published on ChemRxiv and on Preprints, though statistically non-significant, suggests outcomes of relevance for chemistry researchers and educators. The full transition to open science requires new education of doctoral students and young researchers on scholarly communication in the digital age. The preliminary findings of this study will contribute to inform the curriculum of the aforementioned new courses for young chemists, eventually promoting accelerated innovation in a science that, unique amid all basic sciences, originates a huge industry central to the wealth of nations.

scholarly journals Open Science in the Humanities, or: Open Humanities?

Publications ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Knöchelmann
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Open Research ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Do So

Open science refers to both the practices and norms of more open and transparent communication and research in scientific disciplines and the discourse on these practices and norms. There is no such discourse dedicated to the humanities. Though the humanities appear to be less coherent as a cluster of scholarship than the sciences are, they do share unique characteristics which lead to distinct scholarly communication and research practices. A discourse on making these practices more open and transparent needs to take account of these characteristics. The prevalent scientific perspective in the discourse on more open practices does not do so, which confirms that the discourse’s name, open science, indeed excludes the humanities so that talking about open science in the humanities is incoherent. In this paper, I argue that there needs to be a dedicated discourse for more open research and communication practices in the humanities, one that integrates several elements currently fragmented into smaller, unconnected discourses (such as on open access, preprints, or peer review). I discuss three essential elements of open science—preprints, open peer review practices, and liberal open licences—in the realm of the humanities to demonstrate why a dedicated open humanities discourse is required.

scholarly journals Credibility of Preprints: An interdisciplinary Survey of Researchers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney K. Soderberg ◽  
Timothy M. Errington ◽  
Brian A. Nosek
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Science Content ◽  
Independent Verification ◽  
Wide Range

Preprints increase accessibility and can speed scholarly communication if researchers view them as credible enough to read and use. Preprint services, though, do not provide the heuristic cues of a journal’s reputation, selection, and peer review processes that are often used as a guide for deciding what to read. We conducted a survey of 3,759 researchers across a wide range of disciplines to determine the importance of different cues for assessing the credibility of individual preprints and preprint services. We found that cues related to information about open science content and independent verification of author claims were rated as highly important for judging preprint credibility. As of early 2020, very few preprint services display any of these cues. By adding such cues, services may be able to help researchers better assess the credibility of preprints, enabling scholars to more confidently use preprints, thereby accelerating scientific communication and discovery.

scholarly journals Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
English Language ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Internet Education ◽  
Publishing Education ◽  
Scientific Technical

Published since the late 1600s, scholarly journals today are the products of a large industry comprised of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, mostly based in western Europe and North America, whose annual income exceeds $25 billion ($10 billion for English-language scientific, technical and medical journals). Originally created for facilitating scientific communication, the Web in principle makes scientific journals no longer necessary. Yet, in an almost opposite fashion to what happened in retail publishing, the academic publishing industry has further flourished following the advent of the internet. Education of today’s students and young researchers, we argue in this study, is the key enabler for the transition to open science.

scholarly journals The effect of conference proceedings on the scholarly communication in Computer Science and Engineering

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lior Shamir
Keyword(s):  
Conference Proceedings ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Journal Publication ◽  
Research Communication ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Engineering Conference ◽  
Conference Papers

Conference papers have traditionally been a quick form of research communication, and an important source of information for scientists in addition to the standard journal papers. However, in the disciplines of Computer Science and Engineering, a vast majority of the peer-reviewed publications is communicated in the form of conference papers, and conference proceedings have become the primary channel of research communication in these disciplines. While this form of scholarly communication was effective for Computer Science as a young discipline, it introduces several limitations that make it non-optimal for a mature and established scientific field. These include the quality of the peer-reviewed work, selection of papers for publication, and also the efficacy of conferences as forums for expressing innovative and visionary ideas and providing opportunities for networking and meeting other researchers in the field. Here we review the differences between Computer Science and Engineering conference publications and the traditional journal publication used in other scientific disciplines, and discuss the effect of these differences on the scholarly communication in this field.

scholarly journals Credibility of preprints: an interdisciplinary survey of researchers

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 201520
Author(s):  
Courtney K. Soderberg ◽  
Timothy M. Errington ◽  
Brian A. Nosek
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Science Content ◽  
Independent Verification ◽  
Wide Range

Preprints increase accessibility and can speed scholarly communication if researchers view them as credible enough to read and use. Preprint services do not provide the heuristic cues of a journal's reputation, selection, and peer-review processes that, regardless of their flaws, are often used as a guide for deciding what to read. We conducted a survey of 3759 researchers across a wide range of disciplines to determine the importance of different cues for assessing the credibility of individual preprints and preprint services. We found that cues related to information about open science content and independent verification of author claims were rated as highly important for judging preprint credibility, and peer views and author information were rated as less important. As of early 2020, very few preprint services display any of the most important cues. By adding such cues, services may be able to help researchers better assess the credibility of preprints, enabling scholars to more confidently use preprints, thereby accelerating scientific communication and discovery.

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