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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 25, head office in London,
US office in Berkeley
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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Source: Washington Post, May 7 2013 / Imgur: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/07/map-more-
than-half-of-humanity-lives-within-this-circle/
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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
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.
Our longer term vision
Many more presses working together
All levels of communication – shallow and deep
An operating system for scholarly communication