1. Academic Publishing is Evolving… Open Access, Innovation and PeerJ Pete Binfield Co-Founder & Publisher PeerJ @ThePeerJ www.PeerJ.com @p_binfield pete@peerj.com

2. Academic Publishing is Evolving… “There is a red spot in Jupiter, which rotates mathem[atically]” This American Life, 9/28/2012 Galileo Kepler I. Glass "I have observed the highest of the planets, three-formed". “Hail double knob, children of mars” “The mother of love imitates the figures of Cynthia.” “Hail double knob, children of mars”

3. Academic Publishing is Evolving… An enabling technology (the printing press) A realization that the new technology is not just more efficient, but is transformative in certain ways A new conceptual leap (open communication benefits all)

4. Academic Publishing is Evolving… ~330 years pass by… http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f125/dragging-pics-284562/#post3879643

5. Academic Publishing is Evolving… slowly http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f125/dragging-pics-284562/#post3879643

8. Academic Publishing is Evolving… Question What have been the most important innovations in scholarly publishing … in the last 20 years? in the last ~10 years? in the last ~5 years? in the last few years? Journals go online The OA Movement The MegaJournal ?

13. Academic Publishing is Evolving… “ should publishers continue to do business-as-usual, then they will (and frankly should) become dinosaurs, while younger, more innovative and more robust communication venues take the lead. The publishing industry as it is constituted today is doomed to extinction. That isn’t an ‘if’. It’s a ‘when’.” “Dragging scientific publishing into the 21st century” Khan, Goodman and Mittelman, Genome Biology 2014, 15:556, Dec 2014 http://genomebiology.com/2014/15/12/556http://genomebiology.com/2014/15/12/556 “The more I deal with subscription publishers, the more I am convinced that they are trapped in a business model that basically dooms them to the extinction predicted in the above article.” Lenny Teytelman, in The Spectroscope – “Subscription Publishing is the Hotel Industry. Science needs Airbnb.” 2/4/2015

14. Academic Publishing is Evolving… Examples: Altmetric; Authorea; Authorea; bioRxiv; BMJ Open; eLife Lens; experiment.com; F1000Posters; F1000Research; figshare; GitHub; GoogleScholar; Impactstory; LabGuru; Mendeley; MyScienceWork; Open Science Framework; Overleaf; PeerJ; PLOS; protocols.io; PubChase; Publons; PubMed Commons; PubPeer; Readcube; Research Square; Riffyn; Rubriq; ScienceExchange; ScienceOpen; Sciencescape; Sparrho; Twitter; Zenodo… Open peer review Post-publication reviews/discussion/annotation Improved discovery of research knowledge UX upgrade for reading, writing and submitting Article-level metrics Instant publishing and sharing Reproducibility “Subscription Publishing is the Hotel Industry. Science needs Airbnb.”

15. Academic Publishing is Evolving… The ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation Recent Winners 2008 CrossCheck 2009 PLOS ONE 2010 ChemSpider 2011 OECD Better Life Index 2012 Peerage of Science 2013 PeerJ 2014 Frontiers Publications

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17. Predicted ‘Disruption Timeframe’ of OA vs Subscription model Source: “The Inevitability of Open Access”, David Lewis http://crl.acrl.org/content/73/5/493.full.pdf+htmlhttp://crl.acrl.org/content/73/5/493.full.pdf+html (College and Research Libraries, Sep 2012

18. Academic Publishing is Evolving… 2013 2012 2006 2009 2011 2010 New Innovators 2013 2011 2012 2013 2012

19. Academic Publishing is Evolving… Two Case Studies ‘Article Level Metrics’ ‘Open Peer Review’

20. Academic Publishing is Evolving… ‘Article Level Metrics’

21. Academic Publishing is Evolving… http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-015-1547-0 The Open Access Advantage Considering Citation, Article Usage and Social Media Attention

22. Academic Publishing is Evolving… https://peerj.com/articles/175/ Data reuse and the open data citation advantage

23. Academic Publishing is Evolving… Article Level Metrics

24. Academic Publishing is Evolving… Reviewers are named Reviews can happen ‘in the open’ Publication can happen 1st, followed by open peer-review Peer-review history is made public Open Peer Review

25. Academic Publishing is Evolving… https://twitter.com/slavov_mit/status/578325289111052288

26. Academic Publishing is Evolving… Open Peer Review Also: annotatr, Arxiliv, Axios Review, Epistimio, Episciences, F1000 Prime, Haldane’s Sieve, OpenPub, Openreview.net, PaperCritic, PaperRater.org, Peer Evaluation, Peerage of Science, PubUp, Rubriq, Sympoze, SciOR, The Third Reviewer, TiNYARM, Journal Lab… Also: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Biology Direct, eLife, EMBO journal, Frontiers journals, GigaScience, Medical journals in the BMC series

28. Academic Publishing is Evolving…

29. Winner of the 2013 ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation Named as one of the “Top 10 Educational Technology Innovators of 2013” by the Chronicle of Higher Education Creating natural incentives & structures that encourage good / positive behaviour Our ‘Big Picture’ Innovation

30. Academic Publishing is Evolving… Entirely new business model –Lifetime plans for as low as $99 one off payment –Undergraduates publish for free ‘Optional’ Open Peer Review –Maximum transparency Built in reputation system / Q&A system –Stack overflow style A pre-print server – PeerJ PrePrints –Tightly integrated with both peer-reviewed journals Rapid, flexible publications –22 days to 1 st decision –Publications across all of Biology, Medicine, and Computer Science User friendly and actually beautiful! What you need to know about PeerJ

31. Academic Publishing is Evolving… http://figshare.com/articles/Average_APC_price_2014/1311650

32. Academic Publishing is Evolving… The PeerJ Model – Pay Once, Publish For Life Undergraduates publish for free

33. Academic Publishing is Evolving… ‘Optional’ Open Peer-Review

34. http://blog.peerj.com/post/100580518238/whos-afraid-of-open-peer-review ~40% of peer-reviewers name themselves ~80% of authors reproduce their peer review history

35. Academic Publishing is Evolving… Built-In Reputation System

36. Academic Publishing is Evolving… PeerJ Q&A

37. Academic Publishing is Evolving… ‘Leaderboards’

38. Academic Publishing is Evolving…

40. Informal feedback / Q&A Evaluation / ALMs Formal optional open peer-review Contribution points / profile pages

41. everything evolves …even publishing Thank You Pete Binfield @p_binfield pete@peerj.com Co-Founder & Publisher, PeerJ