Comments on: Outstanding Developments of the Past Year in Scholarly Communication https://force11.org/post/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/ The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship Thu, 26 May 2022 13:46:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Fernando Perez https://force11.org/post/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11207 Tue, 19 Apr 2016 09:20:34 +0000 https://force11.org/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11207 LIGO: Gravitational Wave analysis released as Jupyter Notebook

The LIGO collaboration published its recent discovery of gravitational waves by accompanying the full paper with a release of the entire data and analysis (for the signal processing part) in their open science center, in the form of a fully commented Jupyter notebook: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html. This reproduces they key figures of the main paper (http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102).

By deploying this notebook as a “Binder” (http://mybinder.org), anyone can execute this notebook without installing anything: http://mybinder.org/repo/minrk/ligo-binder/GW150914_tutorial.ipynb.

Using this Binder, readers can run the original analysis, change parameters, load new data, etc. This provides full inspectability and reproducibility in addition to open communication with both specialists and the general public. [Disclaimer: I lead the Jupyter project.]

]]> By: Neil Chue Hong https://force11.org/post/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11206 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:36:34 +0000 https://force11.org/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11206 Depsy (http://depsy.org/) helps identify the “hidden” software that scholarly research depends on. Given that we are increasingly seeing software as a directly citable research object, tools like Depsy enable the community to start recognising the value of software.

]]> By: Neil Chue Hong https://force11.org/post/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11205 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:34:44 +0000 https://force11.org/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11205 Peer Review Openness Initiative

The Peer Review Openness Initiative (https://opennessinitiative.org/) is a valuable step forward in enshrining the idea that peer reviewers can drive change that is beneficial to authors and readers.

]]> By: Charlie Rapple https://force11.org/post/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11204 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:58:23 +0000 https://force11.org/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11204 Mandates, national deals, mass resignations, civil protest …

Lots of universities passing OA mandates
National deals for ORCID (e.g. in Australia, Italy) and publisher mandating of ORCID too (e.g. Royal Society)
Lingua / Glossa
Growing awareness of / interest in SciHub (even from outside academia)
… tipping points??

]]> By: Mark Patterson https://force11.org/post/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11203 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:51:10 +0000 https://force11.org/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11203 Open Science in Europe

There’s developing momentum within Europe towards Open Science – as evidenced by the efforts of the current Dutch Presidency of the EU – http://english.eu2016.nl/events/2016/04/04/open-science-conference. It’s particularly encouraging to see that changing practices of research evaluation are seen as a key part of this.

]]> By: Scott Edmunds https://force11.org/post/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11202 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 04:26:00 +0000 https://force11.org/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11202 Open Peer Review going mainstream

The medics have done this for >15 years now, but finally it seems the rest of us are finally catching up on the open peer review game. On top of the increasing number of journals doing it (been rumblings, though still waiting for PLOS) nearly 60K authors have taken matters into their own hands and posted their reviews on Publons (https://publons.com/). The last year has seen a huge increase to >300K open reports, many with DOI integration (another new feature) so they can be listed on ORCID profiles, so we have to be finally reaching a critical mass with this.

]]> By: Kevin Hawkins https://force11.org/post/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11201 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:12:04 +0000 https://force11.org/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11201 Coko Foundation and PubSweet

The emergence of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation ( http://coko.foundation/ ) as a player is sudden, and the development of PubSweet is planned to be equally rapid. This project is ambitious and could turn out to be a major shared architecture in our space.

]]> By: Girija Goyal https://force11.org/post/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11200 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:27:22 +0000 https://force11.org/outstanding-developments-of-the-past-year-in-scholarly-communication/#comment-11200 Ferret, recognition for publishing platform , hypothes.is…

I think in the last year I saw more press about Figshare, Overleaf etc which is good for them but also shows a trend towards greater consciousness and acceptance of innovative solutions. Also I think new tools/publishing platforms that deserve a mention: Ferret (have used it personally and find it quite useful), hypothes.is, sciencematters.io, Riojournal-the idea of submitting Fig1A and building the story up publically, visibly and under open access.

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