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Slide 1: Committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource Let’s have an awesome time… Publishing Science! Peter Binfield, Publisher PLoS ONE, pbinfield@plos.org www.plos.org
Slide 2: What is open access (in the scholarly literature)? • Free, immediate access • Deposition in a digital public archive • Unrestricted reuse • Bethesda definition, 2003 www.plos.org
Slide 3: Who are the Public Library of Science? • Six years old and the largest not-forprofit Open Access publisher • The publisher of 7 Open Access journals including the 3rd largest journal in the world • Staffed by professional publishers from the likes of Nature, BMJ, Springer etc • Based in San Francisco, and Cambridge UK www.plos.org
Slide 4: The Public Library of Science – our publishing strategy • Establish high quality journals – put PLoS and open access on the map • Build a more extensive OA publishing operation – an open access home for every paper • Make the literature more useful – to scientists and the public www.plos.org
Slide 5: Oct 2003 Oct 2004 2005 and 2007: Community Journals Dec 2006 - PLoS ONE www.plos.org
Slide 6: PLoS ONE – statistics Year 2006* 2007 2008 2009** Annual Annual Submissions Publications % of Annual PubMed 473 2497 4401 6619** 138 1231 2723 4310** 0.02% 0.16% 0.34% 0.52%** * Started publishing Dec 20th, 2006 **Projections for 2009 • • • • Third largest journal in the world in 2009 Winner of the ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation 2009 930 Academic Editors, 45,000 authors Publishing daily www.plos.org
Slide 7: PLoS ONE’s Key Innovation – The editorial process • Editorial criteria – – – – Scientifically rigorous Ethical Properly reported Conclusions supported by the data • Editors and reviewers do not ask – How important is the work? – Which is the relevant audience? • Use online tools to sort and filter scholarly content after publication, not before www.plos.org
Slide 8: What else is different? • Inclusive scope – all science and medicine • Encouraging discussion and debate – at our site: commenting, rating and annotation – elsewhere: Editorial Board discussion forum; everyONE blog; Twitter; FriendFeed; Facebook etc • Streamlined production – publication on every weekday www.plos.org
Slide 9: Question… If a paper appears in Nature does that mean it was a high quality paper? www.plos.org
Slide 10: Answer… “89% of Nature’s 2004 impact factor was generated by just 25% of their papers” Phil Campbell, Editor in Chief of Nature www.plos.org
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Slide 12: Is this Good Chocolate? Is this Bad Chocolate? www.plos.org
Slide 13: • Journals are just ‘packaging’ but many people confuse the packaging for the content • The content, the stuff you should really care about, is the article • Therefore the packaging is just one way of telling if the articles are likely to be any good • Is this a good method? Do you trust the packaging? Or would you rather taste the chocolate? www.plos.org
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Slide 15: And that is why PLoS ONE exists • Specifically: – we publish anything that is scientifically sound (and therefore publishable); – we do not filter or ration the content (other than to reject ‘bad’ science or ‘bad’ content); – we get good content in front of the right audience as swiftly as possible; – and we allow the readership to determine what is useful to them as individuals (we don’t decide for them) www.plos.org
Slide 16: Evaluating the article after publication www.plos.org
Slide 17: Researchers Institutions Funders Who cares about measuring research impact? The public Publishers www.plos.org
Slide 18: How do we measure impact? We judge the worth ETH paper on of a M the basis of the impact factor of the OD journal in GO which it was published. D! O N TA O Recommended reading: Adler, R., Ewing, J. Taylor, P. Citation statistics. A report from the International Mathematical Union. http://www.mathunion.org/publications/report/citationstatistics/ www.plos.org
Slide 19: So how could we measure impact? • • • • • • • • Citations Web usage Expert rating Social bookmarking Community rating Media/blog coverage Commenting activity and more… Current technology now makes it possible to measure many of these with… www.plos.org
Slide 20: ‘Article-Level Metrics’ from PLoS • • • • • • • • Citations Web usage Expert rating Social bookmarking Community rating Media/blog coverage Commenting activity and more… Current technology now makes it possible! www.plos.org
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Slide 24: Next steps for article-level metrics • More sources for each data type – Citations, blog coverage • New data types – F1000, Mendeley • Provide data analysis tools • Not a PLoS-only initiative • Develop and adhere to standards www.plos.org
Slide 25: What Else Do We Do That is Awesome? www.plos.org
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Slide 30: Cool Things Just Around the Corner
Slide 31: Semantically enhanced articles • Article published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases http://www.plosntds.org/doi/pntd.0000228 • Creative reuse Semantically Enhanced Version http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000228.x 001 • Review published in PLoS Computational Biology Adventures in Semantic Publishing: Semantic Enhancements of a Research Article http://www.ploscompbiol.org/doi/pcbi.1000361
Slide 32: Semantically enhanced articles • Tables convert to Excel Along with the standard format for viewing tables online, this enhanced article also offers the raw data to download tables directly into Excel, for further research and re-use.
Slide 33: Semantically enhanced articles • Interactive map An interactive version of the original figure, permitting individual panels to be dragged and superimposed on one another. • Location map on Google • Overlay map on Google
Slide 34: Semantically enhanced articles • Semantic Views Click on a button to view the corresponding highlighted text. • Links To references and external sites
Slide 35: Following the Data with Open Access content www.plos.org
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Slide 43: Document What we already have is… a network of literature www.plos.org
Slide 44: Document But we are working towards… Database a network of (open) literature & data www.plos.org
Slide 45: Document But we are working towards… Database a network of (open) literature & data and THAT will be awesome! www.plos.org