ScienceOpen: Scientific Publishing for “Generation Open” Open Access Ambassadors Conference, December, Munich Dr. Stephanie Dawson, CEO

2 We live in a networked world… Image Credit: dee_, Flickr CC BY-NC-SA Why should scientific communication be different?

3 We now have the opportunity… Provide free and immediate access to knowledge to drive creativity, collaboration, innovation and development.

4 … to democratize science At ScienceOpen we wanted to fundamentally change how we communicate scientific results – starting with Peer Review

5 What is ScienceOpen?  ScienceOpen is a next generation Open Access communication platform.  ScienceOpen offers immediate publication after editorial check with a transparent, network-based peer-review afterward.  Suite of social-networking and collaboration tools.  All within the context of over 1.3 million aggregated Open Access articles.

6 Why communication? A publication is the final product of your scientific research. Done, right? Image Credit: Kai Morgener, Flickr, CC-BY-NC-SA

7 Your work is a call to action It is the beginning of a scientific discourse that starts with Peer Review. Image credin: Kay Gaensler, Flickr, CC-BY-NC-SA

8 The challenge How to maintain quality of scientific communication in an internet model?  Current system derived from paper-based communication depends on anoymous pre-publication Peer Review.  But recent cases have highlighted that with the internet, more eyes are more likely to find errors and communicate them more quickly.  New modes of network-based evaluation of research are required.  New measures for rating and ranking scientific results required.

9 The core ScienceOpen idea Use the power of professional networks to evaluate scientific results.

10 Present status The internet has fundamentally changed the scholarly publishing paradigm  No need for journals as “container”.  Immediate publication and worldwide open access.  Impact can be measured on article level and Journal Impact Factors lose meaning.  Publishing becomes a service and fees can be based on the real costs of publication.  Public discourse on scientific research in blogs, social media, and scientific networks.

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12 ScienceOpen as Open Access publisher CINF Webinar August 26, 2014

13 ScienceOpen advantages Fast  After editorial check (ca. 1 week) paper may be published as author pdf with a citable Cross-Ref DOI. Typeset version follows after ca. 10 days. Transparent  After publication SO editors initiate an open, public peer review. Network-based – any reader can invite a referee. Transparent – with full name and all comments. Open-ended – supports reproducibility as criterion as comments may come much later.

14 What we offer young researchers We publish all formats  Posters, Mini-Reviews, Negative results. We support discussion of your results  Open Access, Open Peer Review  Author interviews, blog, video intro to your research – share your ideas with us and we will support you!  Real time tracking of social media usage with Altmetric  Discussion groups and collections on ScienceOpen

15 Posters

16 SO puts researcher at the center

17 Social-networking tools

18 Groups and discussion forums CINF Webinar August 26, 2014

19 Business concept Free services  Access: browse, search & comment  Network: connect & communicate  Organize: draft manuscripts & discuss with colleagues Publishing charge Research: 800 USD  DOI assigment  Copyediting  Language editing  XML conversion  Hosting  Printable PDF  A&I / Google Scholar

20 MPDL Pilot Project We are currently in negotiations with the Max-Planck Digital Library to provide all early career researchers (grad student, post-doc) with free publishing services in Interested? Register and publish your work today!

21 Thank you very much! Please tell us what you think with this quick survey: Stephanie Dawson

22 Looking forward to your visit… youtube.com/user/ScienceOpen facebook.com/pages/scienceopencom/ twitter.com/Science_Open

23 Example: Citations to non-elite journals Acharya et al., arXiv: Oct arXiv:

24 Things are changing… The internet has fundamentally changed the scholarly publishing paradigm  Immediate publication and worldwide open access.  No need for journals as “container”.  Impact can be measured on article level and Journal Impact Factors lose meaning.  Public discourse on scientific research in blogs, social media, and scientific networks.

25 Our answer: ScienceOpen