Presentation at Council of Science Editors, May 5, 2013. Covers change drivers and key areas for science publishers to improve.

2. Overview of change drivers
 Internet
 digital
 search engines
 mobile (iPhone)
 culture change – open access, sharing
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3. There Are Many Copies
3 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/18112585/

4. Machine Readable
4 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisovy/4678126767/

5. A New Universe
5 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The.Matrix.glmatrix.2.png

6. A Physicist on Madison Avenue
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7. Culture Shock
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8. Present Shock
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9. Open Access
9 http://www.flickr.com/photos/communityfriend/2342578485/

10. Open Science
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11. Key areas for publishers to improve
 Communication
 Replication
 Retraction
 Citation
 Connection
 Reputation
 Integration
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12. Communication
 What channels are you using?
 Blog / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest / …
 Audio
 Video
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13. Communication – text messages
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 17.6 billion
 19.1 billion

14. Be on the web and OF the web
 Some things that look like change are actually the
status quo
 Hydrogen fuel-cell cars
 PDF
 Don’t just take a physical process and duplicate it in
digital
 Don’t be a servant of the (technology) solution, be
the master of the (business) process
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15. Of the Web
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16. Of the Web and in the office
 Be social, be authentic, be individual
 Wall Street Journal – The Science of Serendipity in
the Workplace
 New York Times – Engineering Serendipity
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17. Science!
 Replication
 needs to be much easier to replicate the science
 would be nice if replication (or failure to replicate) could
be linked to original article(s)
 Retraction
 related to replication, need to have both processes and
technology to communicate about retracted papers
 http://www.nature.com/news/misconduct-is-the-main-
cause-of-life-sciences-retractions-1.11507
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18. Replication
 Growth in a Time of Debt (Jan 2010)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w15639.pdf
Reinhart, Carmen M., and Kenneth S. Rogoff. 2010. "Growth
in a Time of Debt." American Economic Review, 100(2): 573-
78.
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.100.2.573
 Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic
Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff (April
2013)
http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/31e2ff374b637
7b2ddec04deaa6388b1/publication/566/
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19. Data and code
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 http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/data.php
 “The AER Paper and Processions issue publishes
selected papers presented at the Annual AEA
conference. Datasets for the P & P contributions are
subject to the same access policies as regular
issues of the AER, but because the P & P issues
publishes conference papers in a timely manner to
make recent findings widely available, articles
published therein are not subject to the same peer-
review procedures that are used for regular issues of
the AER, but the data access policies are the same.”

20. Data and code
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21. Download the data and code
 Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic
Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff (April 2013)
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22. Replication
 “averaged cells in lines 30 to 44 instead of lines 30
to 49”
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23. Nature - reproducibility
 “address the problems underlying irreproducibility”
 “more systematically ensure the reporting of key
methodological details, give more space to Methods
sections, examine the statistics more closely and
offer more ways for authors to be transparent about
these matters”
 Raising standards
Nature Immunology 14, 415 (2013)
doi:10.1038/ni.2603
Published online 18 April 2013
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24. Retractions
 http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/
 “Is there a reliable database of retractions?
No. There are ways to search Medline and the Web
of Science for retractions, but there’s no single
database.”
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25. Key areas
 Citation
 can I cite a tweet? a blog post? a data set?
 Connection
 post-email social media connections to authors and
communities
 ORCID
 Reputation
 authority of content
 altmetrics
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26. Citation
 Rules for social media citations
 Issues of permanence
 Dataset citations e.g. Datacite
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27. Connection: What’s email?
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28. Connection
 “a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a
transparent method of linking research activities and
outputs to these identifiers”
 0000-0003-4744-6336
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29. Reputation
 http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
 “Altmetrics are fast, using public APIs to gather data in
days or weeks. They’re open–not just the data, but the
scripts and algorithms that collect and interpret it.
Altmetrics look beyond counting and emphasize semantic
content like usernames, timestamps, and tags.”
 Focus on individual articles, and individual authors –
are you measuring the impact of your articles and
authors? Are you enhancing their impact and
reputation?
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30. Integration
 Integration
 Are you being cited as an authority? Are you part of the
general conversation beyond your discipline?
 e.g. how often are you cited in Wikipedia? Have you
supported a Wikipedia edit-a-thon?
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31. Key areas for publishers to improve
 Communication
 Replication
 Retraction
 Citation
 Connection
 Reputation
 Integration
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32. Conclusion
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 Many kinds of culture shock
 Between traditional print and digital
 Between experts in science & the written word and
experts in technology
 Between long editorial cycles and the always-on, real-
time demands of the Internet
 Many steps that can be taken
 Be of the web
 Be scientific
 Be authentic

33. Questions?
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