The document discusses developments in open access publishing by Ubiquity Press. It provides an overview of Ubiquity Press, including its mission to provide researcher-led publishing infrastructure. It outlines Ubiquity Press' offerings like journals, books, and conferences. It also summarizes current trends in open access like the focus on repositories and metrics, as well as the future of open access publishing involving machine readability and broadening access.
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To return control of publishing to universities, libraries and
researchers, providing them with the infrastructure and support
to not only match but to outcompete the legacy publishers.
About Ubiquity Press
Background
Mission
Spun out of University College London in 2012
Researcher-led
120+ years publishing experience
(BioMed Central, PLOS, Elsevier etc.)
Current staff of 20, head office in London,
US office in Oakland
Comprehensive approach: journals,
books, conferences, repositories, data, software, wetware…
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The Social Contract
of Science
• Validation
• Dissemination
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Data
• Results
• Software
• Hardware, wetware…
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Full anti-plagiarism checking
Provision for open research data
and software archiving with all
publications
Rigorous peer review
Editorial guidance and training
Provision for open peer review
COPE membership for all editors
Close links with society’s ethics
committee
Research integrity
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More open source than open access
Repositories
Coalition of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
Focus on ‘next generation repositories’
Priority areas: discoverability, assessment, workflows
and impact
Ubiquity launching hosted repositories October 2017
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Fully integrated with the ubiquity
partner press platform
No extra charge - included in the price
of the full platform
Unlimited storage
Journals, books, preprints, conferences,
data, software, etc.
INTEGRATED
FAIRLY-PRICED
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Continued moves to decrease reliance on Impact Factor
Metrics and evaluation
Moves to help evaluate journals, improve image of OA
Journal
Publishing
Practices
and
Standards
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HIRMEOS (High Integration of Research Monographs in the
European Open Science infrastructure)
Adding metrics more sensitive to actual usage, e.g.
annotations
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Increase in open peer review
Peer review
But promising centralized services not reliable for community,
e.g. publons
Ubiquity producing ‘streamlined review’
Papers rejected on non-quality grounds (e.g. scope) can be
automatically passed with reviews to other suitable journals
About to be launched for psychology, linguistics, political
science and anthropology
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Online, collaborative authoring tools are appearing, e.g.
Authorea, Overleaf
Open authoring
Ubiquity waiting on governance before integrating
Ubiquity integrating Substance through collaboration with the
Collaborative Knowledge Foundation
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Legacy publishers have lobbied against the
right to electronically read even already
purchased content.
Text and data mining
Ubiquity has taken part in the EU-funded
FutureTDM project, to collect evidence of
the importance of TDM: www.futuretdm.eu
October release of the ubiquity platform will include bulk
download of PDF and XML for TDM, and links to profiles for
common TDM tools, e.g. ContentMine.
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Ubiquity is committed to releasing its entire platform as OSS.
Open access goes with open source
Coko’s xpub journal platform only being worked on by OA
publishers now, to betterment of all:
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A new consortium model
• Cost per library is the same as the average APC
from a large publisher (ca. €2,000)
• Participating libraries effectively purchase all
content from the partner network, and can
therefore accession it properly
• Full MARC records provided
• On-demand COUNTER reporting
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Supporters pledge to pay anything from $1 to $100 per month
In return they are offered token rewards, e.g.
$20 Access to live webinars/Skype chats with authors
$5 Name mentioned on website
$10 Physical items like t-shirts
$1 standard supporter, website says “thank you”
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Legacy publishers
This is purely window-dressing, as behind the scenes heavy
anti-open access and open science lobbying continues.
Working towards a transition to open access
"At Elsevier, we remain ready and willing to collaborate with all
stakeholders to advance the transition to an open access world. The
pace of change will ultimately be driven by researchers and the choices
they make about how they wish to disseminate their research outputs.
We can help them embrace open access by working closely with
funders and research institutions to move beyond advocacy to
possibility."
Gemma Hersh
Vice President, Policy and Communications
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Community governance and trust
All institutional customers
Must demonstrate community
values and provide guarantees
Determine who we will integrate
and work with
STEERING BOARD
Vote on significant investment
or acquisition
PARTNERSHIP RULES
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Machine readability
• Standard article XML for text mining
• Machine readable articles with RDF/HTML5
• Copyright reform is critical
• Machine readable data citation
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Broadening access through ubiquity
• Already adding all content to wikidata
• Adding contextual maps to content
• Central platform with summary video content
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General predictions
• Forms of publication
/scholarly comm’s to
become completely
fluid
• A publishing ecosystem
rather than ‘publishers’
• A large-scale distributed effort to shift to full OA
• Everything will
explode/dissolve
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.
OA still has a long way to go to reach its potential
It needs to be affordable, not only in the dev world, but here too
It needs to be available in the humanities and social sciences, as well as STEM
It needs to include a full range of research outputs
Large legacy publishers are actively opposing
All factors of successful data publication
Need to ensure authors motivated
The Ubiquity Network:
Access to a large peer review pool (100,000+)
Content cascading
Editor sourcing
The Ubiquity Network:
Access to a large peer review pool (100,000+)
Content cascading
Editor sourcing
We want to include presses from the developing world in our network too.
Flying in in organised formation is 70% more efficient than flying solo.
Often when a bird falls out of formation, others stay back with it until it can catch up.
No bird gets left behind.
Note that we will also be able to provide OLH and Luminos memberships (at normal fees) at the same time, meaning less paperwork
Note that we will also be able to provide OLH and Luminos memberships (at normal fees) at the same time, meaning less paperwork
Note that we will also be able to provide OLH and Luminos memberships (at normal fees) at the same time, meaning less paperwork
We want to include presses from the developing world in our network too.
Flying in in organised formation is 70% more efficient than flying solo.
Often when a bird falls out of formation, others stay back with it until it can catch up.
No bird gets left behind.
Our longer term vision
Many more presses working together
All levels of communication – shallow and deep
An operating system for scholarly communication