This is a presentation intended to stimulate discussion during the FEBS YSF Career Session at http://www.febs2009.org/special-events.html , where I was to represent http://www.eurodoc.net. Based in large parts upon presentations by Björn Brembs ( http://www.slideshare.net/brembs/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-today-ii ), Cameron Neylon ( http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/nesta-science-in-society ) and Duncan Hull ( http://www.slideshare.net/dullhunk/defrosting-the-digital-library-a-survey-of-bibliographic-tools-for-the-next-generation-web ). License: CC-BY unless noted otherwise on the slides.

1. Timing your decisions
daniel.mietchen@uni-jena.de
for www.eurodoc.net
34th FEBS Congress, Praha, July 5, 2009

2. Cameron Neylon http://www.flickr.com/photos/24801682@N08/3662760870/ CC-

3. Eurodoc overview
The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers
Aim : Increase Europe's attractiveness for Early Stage
Researchers
Federation of national organisations
32 Membe
Think tank on doctoral research in Europe Mobilit
y
PhD
supervision
and training
Career
Gender
Survey developmen
equality s t
(after Lara Passante,
EC)
Partner of EC, EUA and others
in Bologna and Lisbon processes

4. http://twitter.com/CameronNeylon/status/2325135458
Cameron Neylon

5. Björn Brembs

6. http://twitter.com/lorddrayson/statuses/2346918193
Cameron Neylon

7. Björn Brembs

8. Hobbies
Society
Family
Planet
Your life
Research Knowledge
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9. Cameron Neylon

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11. http://twitter.com/larsjuhljensen/statuses/2315036730
Cameron Neylon

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16. How do you
maximise
efficiency in
generating
impact for your
research?
Cameron Neylon
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17. Cameron Neylon

18. In the last five
years...?
Cameron Neylon
http://flickr.com/photos/stewart/461099066/ CC- 18

19. What is...
Cameron Neylon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/schnurrbart/43568532/ CC-BY- ...?

20. Too much to
read, and
neither
searchable nor
hyperlinked...
Cameron Neylon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orinrobertjohn/2188277801 CC-

21. www.scopus.com
www.pubmed.gov
http://ukpmc.ac.uk
isiknowledge.com
scholar.google.com Duncan Hull

22. ...in the past 24
hours?
Cameron Neylon

23. W w
hat ould science look like
if it w invented today?
ere
after
Duncan Hull http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/3389581452/ CC-

24. Björn Brembs, Freie Universität Berlin
http://brembs.net
http://www.slideshare.net/brembs/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-today-ii

25. tion
discipline has its own data silo
ersonal and unsociable
the hell are you”?
re are “my” papers? (authored by me, or of interest to me)
t are my friends and colleagues reading?
t are the experts reading? What is popular this week / month / year ?
d”: Identity of publications and authors is inadequate
olete models of publication, not everything fits publication-sized holes
o-attribution
a-attribution
al contributions (databases, software, wikis/blogs?)
Duncan Hull

26. Y esterday T oday
P aper B its and bytes
B rick and mortar libraries C ybers pace
Ins titute library addres s Uniform res ource identifiers (UR Is )
High cos t of printing and dis tribution P ublis hing cos ts fallen by orders of
magnitude
O nly comprehens ible to a few humans R ead and indexed by machines (e.g.,
G ooglebot)
R es tricted acces s to a few s ubs cribers Increas ingly public
Björn Brembs

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29. y
be a last resort
h too valuable to be satisfied with the current pitiful
m as good as we possibly can!
Björn Brembs

30. tations (de-duped from Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of
d X times, placing it in the top Y% of all articles in this journa
Comments
arked X times in Social Bookmarking sites
ur community rated it as X, Y, Z
sed on X ‘respected’ blogs
n X, Y, Z International News media
Peter Binfield
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31. Björn Brembs

32. refworks.com
zotero.org
hubmed.org mendeley.com
2collab.com
connotea.org citeulike.org
Re-couple metadata that has be de-coupled from data
www.mekentosj.com
Björn Brembs “iTunes for PDF

33. How would knowledge sharing look like if it were invented
today?
ers – libraries archive everything according to a world-wide standard
decentralized database of data in context
ering
r posting, supervised by an independent body
r text/text, data/data and text/data links (formerly „citations“)
Datamining
ou (don‘t) want (but need)
arking, etc.
tor IDs with attribution/reputation system (teaching, reviewing, curating
ble today (almost)
Björn Brembs
http://www.slideshare.net/brembs/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-today-ii

34. ut ideas, web pages, data,
Cameron Neylon

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http://tinyurl.com/dku869

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39. ...making the right
connections
Cameron Neylon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mararie/3313582639/ CC-BY-

40. Make your
work available
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Cameron Neylon

41. Let others build
on it...
41
Cameron Neylon

42. ...to increase
your impact
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Cameron Neylon

43. http://twitter.com/EvoMRI/statuses/2316110674
Cameron Neylon

44. OK, but what
about timing all
these
decisions?
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45. If you share as
things arise,
timing is not
the issue.
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46. The issue is
whether or not to
do science in the
open, especially if
you are a young
researcher. 46