Emerging models in digital scholarship, research, publication and open science
1. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com www.ubiquitypress.com / @ubiquitypress
Brian Hole, Founder and CEO
Queens University, 20 October 2015
Emerging models in digital scholarship,
research, publication and open science
2. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com www.ubiquitypress.com / @ubiquitypress
The Social Contract
of Science
• Validation
• Dissemination
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Data
• Results
• Software
• Hardware, wetware…
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Researchers communicate differently to other people. Central to this is the social contract of science.
We agree to disseminate our work widely, allowing others to validate it and build upon it.
The best and arguably only way to do this effectively is OA, so we are an OA publisher.
If you don’t do this, it can be termed scientific malpractice, and it applies not only to results.
The Ubiquity Network:
Access to a large peer review pool (100,000+)
Content cascading
Editor sourcing