Presentation on Independent Open Peer Review by Michael Taylor at the OpenAIRE-COAR Conference: "Open Access Movement to Reality: Putting the Pieces Together" held in Athens.
Bentham & Hooker's Classification. along with the merits and demerits of the ...
Open Peer Review to Save the World
1. OPEN Peer Review to save the world
Michael Taylor (PhD, CPhys)
National Observatory of Athens
Patternizer AT gmail.com
alpha @libreapp
2. Peer review… to save the world??!
• As we move toward a Type I civilization our socio-economic
world is getting more global & interconnected…
Type I — a civilization that is able to harness all
of the power P available on a single planet
(Pearth ≈ 1.7 ×1017 W)
Type II — a civilization capable of harnessing the
luminosity of its own star (Psun ≈ 3.9 ×1026 W)
Type III — a civilization with access to energy on
the scale of the luminosity of its own galaxy
(Pmilky way ≈ 4 ×1037 W)
𝐾 =
𝑙𝑜𝑔10 𝑃 − 6
10
Kardashev, Nikolai (1964) Soviet
Astronomy 8: 217Sagan (1973) Cosmic Connection.
Cambridge Press, ISBN 0-521-78303-8
…meaning that systemic impacts are more macroscopic
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3. Modern impacts & threats are they just tabloid science
?!
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4. The Journal Publishing Model made us think...
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5. openscholar.org.uk
We got together with others to test new models
108 volunteers
from 17 countries
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6. LIBRE = LIBerating REsearch but from what exactly?!
• PUBLICATION DELAYS slow processes & embargos
• BARRIERS TO INFO paywall$
• DEPENDENCE ON CITATION INDICES poor stats
• COPYRIGHT LOSS no creative re-use (we need CC-BY)
• REJECTION RATES waste, curtail output & miss ops
• RETRACTION RATES bad info stays in circulation
• AUTHOR CHARGES knowledge divide
• LOW VISIBILITY unindexed OA & “the long tail”
• LIMITED PEER-REVIEW danger of bias with 2-3 people
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7. Publication delays >8 months (even before any
embargo)
Björk & Solomon (2013)
Journal of Informetrics
7(4), 914-923.
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8. Barriers to info paywall$ (and e.g. linguistic barriers)
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9. Dependence on citation indices poor statistics
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10. Copyright loss creates loss of creative re-use rights and
OA
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11. Rejection Rates cause submission cascades & waste
time
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12. Retraction Rates put lives at risk
Steen, R. G. (2011). Retractions in the medical literature: how many patients are put
at risk by flawed research?. Journal of medical ethics, 37(11), 688-692.
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13. Figure 2. Percentage of retractions vs. percentage of 2010 Web of
Science records among 12 broad scholarly fields.
Retraction Rates may be an early warning bell about
Gold OA
Grieneisen & Zhang M (2012) PLoS
ONE 7(10): e44118.
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14. Retraction Rates mean wrong info stays in circulation for
years
Fang, Steen & Casadevall
(2012) PNAS 109(42), 17028-
17033.
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15. Journal Peer Review is limited, left to trust and prone to
bias
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16. An ideal (journal-independent) model
should be …
COOPERATIVE free & data-linked
FAST un-moderated & zero-embargo
FAIR accessible, OA and persistent
HONEST transparent
INSPIRING social & credit-giving
OBJECTIVE collectively wise & reproducible
INNOVATIVE open source
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17. A new model the “Open Publication”
0-embargo
OA repositories
LIBRE
Authors
Institutes
Associations
Journals
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0-embargo
OA repositories
18. LIBRE is our attempt at demonstrating independent peer-
review
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24. LIBRE is open source and we welcome your input at
GitHub
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26. Greece is in 12th position (1.13% of the top 1% cited
articles EVER)
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27. Greece has HUGE research output potential
Press WH (2013) What's So Special About Science (And How Much Should We Spend on
It?). Science, 342(6160), 817-822.
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28. Greece is VERY active & innovative in OA
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29. Beckett, C., & Inger, S. (2006).
Self-archiving and journal
subscriptions: co-existence or
competition. Publishing
Research Consortium: PRC
Summary Papers, 2.
It’s important to ask librarians what do they really want
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30. So, can (independent) Peer Review save the world
MAYBE
Björk, Bo-Christer et al (2009)
PloS one 5.6: e11273.
Gargouri & Harnad (2010) Eprints: August 28. 2010
HELP US TO MANDATE IPR
AT OA REPOSITORIES
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31. MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Inspired by the essay…
Many thanks for your thoughts