1. APS and INSPIRE
Mark Doyle
May 20, 2008

2. APS Goals “Advance and diffuse knowledge of physics”
Publish the best of physics in all fields
Broad communication across disciplines

3. Who is reading PRD? Good question 99 % on arXiv.org
Approximately 600,000 downloads per year
Lower than other fields
Current (this year + past 3) is about 40%
PROLA (archive back to 1970) is about 60%
Some traffic comes to PRD from other journals (PRB and PRA in particular)

4. Editors as Recommenders
Peer review is a recommender system
New journal home page design
Draw attention to important articles (or anything else)
Abstract pages becoming much more important
Editors’ Suggestions
Kaleidoscope – multimedia soon
More later….

5. Things Already Out There
Editors use arXiv, ADS, SPIRES, etc. to locate potential referees – a uniform API would be great
COinS (ContextObject in Spans) – embed metadata in page – uses PRISM
Facets in search results (and citing articles – sort of)

6. In the works Personalization Community building New web publication
Multiple roles for users interacting with APS
Large number of referees, authors, readers, members (good amount of overlap)
“Where do I live?”
Portals for bringing together multiple data sources
Community building
New web publication

7. Other stuff Most (something) Second Life (Unphysical Review?)
Tagged, ed, blogged, searched, etc.
Things based on readers clear intention that something is important are better metrics than just downloads
Second Life (Unphysical Review?)

8. Identifying researchers
Interested in developing a system of identifying individual researchers
Many roles (author, referee, APS member, reader, etc.)
Managing of author lists of collaborations
Competing needs of authors vs. readers
Building services that rely on authentication and authorization requires a trusted network of id providers

9. New Website Launch during 2008
Highlighting the best research for the broad community (finding the needles in the haystack)
Viewpoints (expert written commentary on articles)
Trends (expert written overviews of a topical area)