Presentation at the Association of Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

1. Future of Research Communications and E-Scholarship
Maryann E. Martone, Ph. D.
Executive Director
Professor of Neuroscience, University of California, San
Diego

2. What is FORCE11?
Future of Research Communications
and E-Scholarship:
A grass roots effort to accelerate the pace
and nature of scholarly communications and
e-scholarship through technology, education
and community
Why 11? We were born in 2011 in
Dagstuhl, Germany
Principles laid out in the FORCE11
Manifesto

3. Who is FORCE11?
Anyone who has a stake in moving scholarly communication into the 21st century
Publishers
Library and
Information
scientists
Policy makers
Tool builders
Funders
Scholars
Science Humanities
Social
Sciences

4. FORCE11 Vision
• Modern technologies enable vastly improve knowledge transfer and far wider
impact; freed from the restrictions of paper, numerous advantages appear
• We see a future in which scientific information and scholarly communication more
generally become part of a global, universal and explicit network of knowledge
• To enable this vision, we need to create and use new forms of scholarly
publication that work with reusable scholarly artifacts
• To obtain the benefits that networked knowledge promises, we have to put in
place reward systems that encourage scholars and researchers to participate and
contribute
• To ensure that this exciting future can develop and be sustained, we have to
support the rich, variegated, integrated and disparate knowledge offerings
that new technologies enable
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5. Old Model: Single type of content;
single mode of distribution
Scholar
Library
Scholar
Publisher

6. Scholar
Consumer
Libraries
Data Repositories
Code Repositories
Community databases/platforms
OA
Curators
Social
Networks
Social
NetworksSocial
Networks
Peer Reviewers
Narrative
Workflows
Data
Blogs/Wikis
Multimedia
Nanopublications
Code
The future is now...

7. The scientific corpus is fragmented
• ~25 million articles
total, each covering a
fragment of the
biomedical space
• Each publisher owns a
fragment of a particular
field
• The current process is
inefficient and slow
Wiley
Elsevier
MacMillian
Oxford
Spinal Muscular Atrophy

8. Is the current method serving
science?
47/50 major preclinical
published cancer studies
could not be replicated
 “The scientific community
assumes that the claims in a
preclinical study can be taken at
face value-that although there
might be some errors in
detail, the main message of the
paper can be relied on and the
data will, for the most
part, stand the test of time.
Unfortunately, this is not always
the case.”
Begley and Ellis, 29 MARCH 2012 | VOL 483 |
NATURE | 531
 “There are no guidelines that
require all data sets to be
reported in a paper; often,
original data are removed during
the peer review and publication
process. “
Getting data out sooner in a
form where they can be
exposed to many eyes and
many analyses may allow us to
expose errors and develop
better metrics to evaluate the
validity of data

9. A new platform for scholarly
communications
Components
• Authoring tools
– Optimized for mark up and linked content
• Containers
– Expand the objects that are considered “publications”
– Optimize the container for the content
• Processes
– Scholarship is code
• Mark up
– Data, claims, content suitable for the web
– Suitable identifier systems
• Reward systems
– Incentives to change
– Reward for new objects
Scholarship must move from a “single currency system”;
platforms must recognize diversity of output and representation

10. FORCE11.org
• Community platform
– Meetings
– Discussions
– Tools and resources
– Blogs
– Event calendar
– Community projects
• Education
– Scholarly
communication 101
>430 members from diverse stakeholder groups

11. Beyond the PDF
• Conference/unconferen
ce where all
stakeholders come
together as equals to
discuss issues
– Publishers
– Technologists
– Scholars
– Library scientists
• Incubator for change
• What would you do to
change scholarly
communication?
San Diego, Jan 2011 ........... Amsterdam, March 2013
http://www.force11.org/beyondthepdf2

12. Bridging communities
• FORCE11 helps facilitate
communications across
disciplines and
communities
• Issues are not identical
but we can learn from
each other
– Enhanced publications
• Digital humanities +
– Dealing with data
• Science +
“What is an ORCID id?”-computer scientist

13. Resource for scholarly communications:
People, organizations, publications, tools
Upgraded Tool and Resource catalog
to be released very soon

14. Scholarly communication landscape: Is
there a big picture?
ORCID
Data journals
Research Data Alliance
PeerJ, eLife
Workflows 4Ever
Data Verse
Impact Story, Rubriq
Sadie
Scalar
Are we really suffering
from a lack of tools?
• or is it usable tools?
• or is it tools that are
used?
• or is it awareness that
there are tools?
• or are these even the
right tools?

15. A place to come together: Data
citation principles
•FORCE11 provides a neutral
space for bringing groups
together
•35 individuals
representing > 20
organizations concerned
with data citation
•Conducted a review of
current data citation
recommendations from 4
different organizations
•Will present results at data
citation working group
meeting at Research Data
Alliance meeting in
Washington DC next week

16. A place for action
• Strong sense
that we should
“practice what
we preach”
• FORCE11 an
ideal test
community for
new
technologies
and platforms
Paul Groth

17. Why is coordination/cooperation
needed?
• New roles and vanishing roles
• Are there broad agreements
that need to be forged?
• Are the issues the same for all
stakeholders?
Librarians are publishers
Scholars are curators
Publishers are archivists
Scholars are customers
Scholars are publishers
Everyone is a standards developer
Open citations? Text mining across the
corpus?
Data: Public-private partnership?
Humanities and sciences
Developed and developing world
Technologists and scholars
Institutions and individuals
Scholars and taxpayers
FORCE11 provides a forum for these discussions
Is there still a role for everyone?
 Are we training an adequate workforce?
Scholars need to be data scientists
Whereis lack of coordination holding us back?
Can and should everyone be brought to the table for
all discussions?

18. Questions for you?
• Is your community represented in FORCE11?
• Are your needs the same as the other stakeholders in the areas of:
– Containers
– Processes
– Mark up
– Authoring
– Reward
• Are there new areas not addressed in the manifesto?
• What do you need from FORCE11?
– Users?
– Tools?
– Collaborators?
– Advertising?
– A bully pulpit?/platform for cooperation?
– Protocols and best practices?
• What can you do for FORCE11?
Join FORCE11 now!