Professor of Information Services Management at the University of Sheffield, UK
Today I had the pleasure to be a panelist in the session 'moving beyond journals' at the Royal Society Future of Scientific Publishing conference.
I argued that scientific publishing is going through a transformation addressing the challenges of openness, curation and meaningful dialogue.
Preprinting helps accelerate dissemination of scientific knowledge. To what extent do researchers adopt preprinting? And how does this vary by discipline and region?
Together with Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield, I just published an article answering these questions. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xdwc4_v2
The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed https://theconversation.com/the-peer-review-system-no-longer-works-to-guarantee-academic-rigour-a-different-approach-is-needed-244092
In this piece @stephenpinfield, Kathy Zeiler and I make the case for the publish-review-curate model, the model we use in the #MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform launched earlier this week.
For more details about MetaROR's publish-review-curate model, see https://metaror.org/publish-review-curate/.
The peer review system is broken - a different approach is needed š”
Kathryn Zeiler, @stephenpinfield and @LudoWaltman write in
@ConversationUK about how increased transparency in the review process could speed scientific progress: https://theconversation.com/the-peer-review-system-no-longer-works-to-guarantee-academic-rigour-a-different-approach-is-needed-244092
Excited to share that later this month @RoRInstitute and @aimos will launch the new #MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform, offering open peer review of articles in the field of metaresearch.
Together with Kathryn Zeiler, I will serve as Editor-in-Chief of the platform. Other collaborators include @aidybarnett, @alexh, @andrebrasil, @jameswilsdon, @jasonchin, @stephenpinfield, among others.
See https://researchonresearch.org/metaror-launch/ for information about our launch events on November 21 and 26.
Check out this news story from @nature about our Distributed Peer Review project, led by Dr. Hanna Denecke @xplanatorium working with RoRI Researchers @tomstafford @stephenpinfield and Anna Butters: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03106-w
Tomorrow, @marcellaflamme & I are moderating a discussion with @stephenpinfield on his new book, *Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and Participatory Openness* (https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91151) for the Society for Cultural Anthropology. We'll have questions & reflections from @acorsin, @apandian, & Eleana Kim. Bring your own questions & comments.
Register for the event: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkdu-przwrH9JQKBxm9Ue1_kqXikJjG3oo#/registration
Next Friday, @marcellaflamme & I are moderating a discussion with @stephenpinfield on his new book, *Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and Participatory Openness* (https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91151) for the Society for Cultural Anthropology. We'll have questions & reflections from @acorsin, @apandian, & Eleana Kim. Bring your own questions & comments.
Register for the event: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkdu-przwrH9JQKBxm9Ue1_kqXikJjG3oo#/registration
COVIDās preprint bump set to have lasting effect on research publishing https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00401-4
In this piece by @Dalmeet our @cwts PhD candidate Narmin Rzayeva shares her reflections on our paper 'The experiences of COVID-19 preprint authors: a survey of researchers about publishing and receiving feedback on their work during the pandemic' https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15864.
@timelfen @Samuelmoore @marcellaflamme Sounds good
@rmounce Some publishers do this, apparently, if the book is published in the second half of a year. not sure why...
Really pleased to say my book, āAchieving global open access: The need for scientific, epistemic and participatory opennessā, has now been published #openaccess online. Print copies will be available from 9 July. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032679259
Impt point from @mpe: "The current situation is deeply ableist. As a disabled person who is too unwell to access a research library, the only way that I can do research is through the digital availability of works. We [can] fix this, but many academics are more concerned by their own career prospects & ensuring they can publish w/ their chosen publisher than fixing access issues. Itās as though the š±š°šŖšÆšµ of publishing were to cement academic careers."
https://eve.gd/2024/06/21/a-few-notes-on-the-ref-oa-mandate-for-books/
today's MUST READ:
"Ending profiteering from publicly-funded research" -- a report from The Australia Institute, authored by Kristen Scicluna
https://australiainstitute.org.au/report/ending-profiteering-from-publicly-funded-research/
āIt takes a village to write a really good paperā: A normative framework for peer reviewing in philosophy https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12670
Glad to see this proposal by Samantha Copeland and Lavinia Marin for peer review reform in philosophy: "We argue that the 'Democracy & Transparency' (https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1544) school of thought for peer review captures best the norms we have described above as desirable for philosophy, as well as capturing the best aspects of the current system."
Interesting results in @digitalscience and @springernature #StateOfOpenData report https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24428194.v1.
This graph shows a breakdown by field of the openness of survey respondents to four open science practices.
The pattern is almost the same for all fields: Researchers are most strongly in support of open access, followed by open data, then open peer review and finally preprinting.
Your voice matters! Have your say on the future of scholarly communication by joining the conversation on cOAlition S' 'Towards Responsible Publishing' proposal.
Share your feedback using the link below: https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90624212/cOAlition-S-towards-responsible-publishing
#ResponsiblePublishing #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenResearch
Very happy to share our most recent publication focusing on preprint review services.
By myself, Narmin Rzayeva, @stephenpinfield and @LudoWaltman
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8c6xm/
Our study shows that preprint review services have the potential to turn peer review into a more transparent and rewarding experience and to improve publishing and peer review workflows.
Your comments will be very much appreciated! š
Today @PeerJ published the paper 'The experiences of COVID-19 preprint authors: a survey of researchers about publishing and receiving feedback on their work during the pandemic' by Narmin Rzayeva, @SusanaOliHenriques, @stephenpinfield and myself https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15864.
This paper is a result of a project of @RoRInstitute in which we studied the response of the scholarly communication system to the COVID-19 pandemic https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.17125394.v1.
The teams of @aimos and @RoRInstitute are working hard to set up the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform for publication and peer review of research in the field of metaresearch, or research on research.
We just published a short piece in #EASST Review to introduce our plans for MetaROR to the science and technology studies (STS) community https://www.easst.net/article/metaror-a-new-form-of-scholarly-publishing-and-peer-review-for-sts/.
@jasonchin @siminevazire @aidybarnett @alexh @stephenpinfield @jameswilsdon
