The vision for ‘the Research Paper of the Future’ promises to make scholarship more discoverable, transparent, inspectable, reusable and sustainable. Yet new forms of scientific output also challenge authors, librarians, publishers and service providers to register, validate, disseminate and preserve them as elements of the scholarly record. What constitutes authorship in a collaborative process of GitHub pull requests and commits? When to capture, reference and preserve dynamic data sets that change over time? How to package and render complex executable collections for review and delivery? This session considers key challenges in operationalising the Research Paper of the Future from the perspectives of a publisher, a library administrator and a scientist/developer of a collaborative authoring platform.

1. Advancing the Research Paper of the Future
Gail Clement
Head of Research Services
gclement@library.caltech.edu
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-4806
Quick Overview

2. Let’s look at a simple model of
the SPoF
https://github.com/everpub

3. This example is fictional
everpub
Making reusability a first class citizen in the scientific
workflow.
Tim Head, CERN; Titus Brown, UC Davis
Submitted to the 2016 Open Science Prize competition

9. Original sketch built with :
“Grey compass rose”,
https://commons.wikimedia
.org/wiki/File:Gray_compas
s_rose.svg, Distributed as
a public domain image.
Yorkshire topography map,
http://www.mappery.com/m
aps/Yorkshire-topography-
Map.mediumthumb.jpg

10. SPoF as Scholarly
Artifact
• “Computational Narrative” designed by and for humans and
machines
• Data, Code, and Narrative are all first class outputs
• As a compilation/compendium, SPOF fulfills all requirements of
the tradt’l scholarly record
• Registration
• Validation
• Dissemination
• Preservation
• Plus adds additional requirements needed for 21st Century
research!

11. SPoF as FAIR
Access
•Findable
•Accessible
•Interoperable
•Reuseable
https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples
Force11 Fair Principles

12. SPoF as Open
Science
• Researchers create and use SPoFs across a wide range of
contexts and audiences
• Researchers (including one’s future self) expect SPoFs to:
• Fully understand what was done
• Reliably reproduce the work
• Build upon the work to add new insights
• Research professionals need to collaborate on SPOFs
efficiently, effectively, and with credit for their respective roles

13. SPoF as Digital
Scholarship
• Computer used in most every step in research cycle
• Outputs are multimodal and fluid, likely to change over time
• Online, web infrastructure provides integral linkages
• Structural map for objects within compendium
• Associates Provenance and usage information with research
outputs
• Connects semantically-related research outputs
• Norms are in place in support of ethical authorship,

14. Library & Institute
Values
to preserve in SPoF

15. geralt, https://pixabay.com/p-412761/?no_redirect, Distributed as

16. http://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.00029
http://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.00029

18. https://dcc.ligo.org/P151226/public/

19. Slide presented by Dr. Alan Weinstein, Director of LIGO Open Science
Center, Caltech

20. Blog post prepared by Dr. Titus Brown, Pot-stirrer & Caltech Alum; Assoc.
Professor at UC Davis, Caltech, Envisioning Scientific Paper of the Future,
Jan. 9, 2017

21. Dr. Yolanda Gil, Professor, Computing and Informatics, USC
http://www.scientificpaperofthefuture.org/gpf/node/1
Dr. Victoria Stodden et al, Professor, NCS
http://wholetale.org/

22. https://www.library.caltech.edu/envisioning-scientific-pa

23. View
from the
Library

24. 1. Redirect Resource Budget to catalyze new
research outputs
2. Carpenter-ize Instruction program to produce
first-class research outputs of all stripes and
more confident authors
3. Reconsider Legal and Ethical Strategies
4. Build apacity via robust yet friendly platforms
and tools
Repositioning the Caltech Library to
Support SPoFs

25. Redirect Resource Budget to catalyze new
research practices and outputs
Subscribe to collaborative, innovative,
scientific authoring platforms
Invest in annual memberships in preprint services
commons infrastructures e.g., ORCiD, DataCite;
Global research communities e.g., RDA, COPE

26. Carpenter-ize Instruction program to produce
first-class research outputs of all stripes
https://authorcarpentry.github.io/lessons/
https://caltechlibrary.github.io/2017-04-26-caltech/

27. Reconsider and Bolster Legal and Ethical
Strategies
• Reviewing and extending Institute IP
Policies
• Setting repository licenses to OPEN by
default
• Leveraging community norms in support of
FAIR principles; CODATA-Legal
Interoperability principles for research data
management; Code of Best Practices in
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{lingmacros} usepackage{tree-dvips}
begin{document} section*{Notes for My Paper}
• Eligible for copyright protection
• Ownership depends on circumstances
• Openly license as CC-By
• May or may not be eligible for copyright protectio
• Ownership depends on circumstances
• Openly license as CC-By or waive rights via CC
• Eligible for
copyright
protection
• Ownership =
Caltech
• Openly
license as
open source

28. Build robust yet friendly and easy
platforms and tools

29. Refocus Staffing and Training
to support the entire research lifecycle
•Work in lean, flexible teams that
combine expertise
•Integrate non MLIS-professionals
•Pursue non-library professional
affiliations
•Schedule all day, hands on training
retreats
•Introduce new incentives and
opportunities for tooling up

30. Thank you!
Any questions?
You can find me at:
gclement@library.caltec
h.edu
@Repositorian