What Will Be The Impact of Future Changes in Digital Scholarship on Marine Biodiversity?

What Will Be The Impact of Future Changes in Digital Scholarship on Marine Biodiversity? Philip E. Bourne University of California San Diego [email_address] www.sdsc.edu/pb http://www.slideshare.net/pebourne

You are the ones to answer that question – not me. I am here simply to give you something to think about

My Perspective
I am a domain scientist (computational molecular biology)
I co-founded and am EIC of one Public Library of Science (PLoS) open access journals
I co-founded a company, SciVee Inc., that is attempting to leverage the perceived changes in scholarly communication
I support a small academic scholarly communication group

Scholarly Communication Group
Can we improve the way science is disseminated and comprehended?
Through openness can we increase the number of people interested in science?

Why Do We Need Change? Here is a personal example from my own field

Josh Sommer – A Remarkable Young Man Co-founder & Executive Director the Chordoma Foundation http://sagecongress.org/Presentations/Sommer.pdf

Chordoma
A rare form of brain cancer
No known drugs
Treatment – surgical resection followed by intense radiation therapy
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Chordoma.JPG

http://sagecongress.org/Presentations/Sommer.pdf

Adapted: http://sagecongress.org/Presentations/Sommer.pdf Isaac If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants Isaac Newton From Josh’s point of view the climb up just takes too long > 15 years and > $850M to be more precise

http://sagecongress.org/Presentations/Sommer.pdf

http://fora.tv/2010/04/23/Sage_Commons_Josh_Sommer_Chordoma_Foundation

There Must Be Equally Compelling Examples from Your Own Field?

To Sum Up This and More…
Formal science communication:
Occurs too slowly
Reaches too few people
Costs too much
Ignores the data
Is very hard to reproduce
Is stuck in the era of the printing press – we need to move Beyond the PDF and use the power of the medium

Committed to making the world ’ s scientific and medical literature a public resource Open Access Can Begin to Address Some of These Issues

What is Open Access?
A spectrum of things!
An author pays model
A different but apparently sustainable business model
Free, relatively fast, online access
Usage with less restrictions

Your Community is Already Engaged

A Couple of Examples of the Power of the Medium and What Your Community Can Do (apologies if it is being done already)

1. Broaden Scientific Awareness
Identify areas of Wikipedia that relate to the journal that are missing or stubs
Develop a Wikipedia page
Have a journal Topic Page Editor review the page
Publish the copy of record with associated rewards (CC-BY)
Release the living version into Wikipedia

2. Focus on Data-Journal Integration
User reads a paper (one view of the info)
Clicks on a figure which can be analyzed
Clicking the figure gives a composite database + journal view
This takes you to yet more papers or databases
1. A link brings up figures from the paper 0. Full text of PLoS papers stored in a database 2. Clicking the paper figure retrieves data from the PDB which is analyzed 3. A composite view of journal and database content results 4. The composite view has links to pertinent blocks of literature text and back to the PDB 1. 2. 3. 4. The Knowledge and Data Cycle http://biolit.ucsd.edu

3. Use the Open Literature Looking for Low Hanging Fruit Shared Function Immunology Literature Cardiac Disease Literature

4. Accept Rich Media as Scholarship Products Application Product Primary Customers Journals PubCast Journals, publishers, societies Meetings PosterCast Societies, conference orgs. SlideCast Comm. PaperCast Societies, journals Podcast SlideCast Education PosterCast Societies, universities SlideCast Books BookCast Publishers, book sellers

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What Will Be The Impact of Future Changes in Digital Scholarship on Marine Biodiversity?

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