The Big Picture: Open Access content
aggregators as drivers of impact
ReCon Conference
Edinburgh, 19 June 2015
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NASA/JPL/NIMA

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Information overload
Yearly ca. 1.8 million articles published in
around 28,000 scholarly journals.
And more on the way…
 Digitalization – new outlets
 Economic logic of Open Access
 Publication of negative results, all
clinical trials, data sets, micro-
publications
 China, India, Brazil and others entering
the research community
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Discovery
How do researchers find
relevant articles?
 Search engines (Google)
 Indexing services (pubMed, Scopus,
Web of Science, SciELO)
 Networking (Social media,
conferences)
 Topical bundling (journals, collections)
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Ranking knowledge
 Orientation
 Context
 Inspiration
 Time-saving
But also..
 Reputation
 Career
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Journal-based tools: Impact Factor
“Impact Factor—
Negotiated,
Irreproducible, and
Unsound”
Brembs, Button, Munafò
Front. Hum. Neurosci., 24 June 2013
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291

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Impact Factor Economy

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Article-based tools
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 Usage statistics
 Social media mentions
 Mentions in news media, blogs,
podcasts
 Citations in scientific literature
 Open Peer Review reports
 Comments
 Inclusion in citation management
tools (Mendeley, CiteuLike)

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The opportunity
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Open Access making
large numbers of
structured research
articles available across
all publishers.
Let‘s play!

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Case Study: ScienceOpen

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What is ScienceOpen?
 ScienceOpen is a next generation Open Access
communication platform.
 1.5 million aggregated Open Access articles open to Post-
Pub Peer Review and Collection building.
 Suite of social-networking and collaboration tools.
 ScienceOpen as publisher offers immediate publication
after editorial check with a transparent, network-based
peer-review afterward.

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Article page: Share, comment, review

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Content aggregation on ScienceOpen
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 Advanced search functionalities
 Saved searches with notification when new
content is added
 Search for similar content on ScienceOpen
 Altmetric information on every paper
 Commenting and Post-Publication Peer Review
(with trackable CrossRef DOI for reports) on all
content
 What‘s missing? – The ability to rank articles

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Coming soon…
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 Citation information within the
ScienceOpen platform
 Reference “stubs“ for content not on
the platform (ca. 10 million to start)
 Author profiles
 Content ranking
 Recommendation function from a
range of parameters

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Future of scholarly communication
What aspects of scholarly journals are
most important to users?
 Topic-specific bundling
 Editorial selection
 Quality assurance
 Trust and reliability
ScienceOpen Collections provide
these functions beyond individual
publishers or journals.

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ScienceOpen Collections

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Researcher-driven collections

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Publisher branding on ScienceOpen

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New journal promotion: Thieme

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Best of OA promotion: IUCr

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In summary…
 Beyond the Impact Factor:
we need new ways to rate
and rank content across
publishers
 New tools for content
owners (publishers,
societies, authors) to
promote their work
 Aggregators leading the
way
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Thank you!
Stephanie Dawson, PhD
ScienceOpen GmbH
Pappelallee 78/79
10437 Berlin, Germany
Skype: dawson_scienceopen
Twitter: @SDawsonBerlin
Mobile: +49-176-72614581
Tel: +49-30-6098490-277
Stephanie.Dawson@ScienceOpen.com

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Looking forward to your visit!
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