Brian Hole, founder and CEO of Ubiquity Press, gave a presentation on disrupting academic publishing at the UKSG Forum in London. He discussed how the social contract of science includes validation, dissemination and further development of research, but that scientific malpractice can occur through issues with data, results, software and hardware. Hole also presented on Ubiquity Press's model of transparency and trust in academic publishing with article processing charges of £300.
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.
All factors of successful data publication
Need to ensure authors motivated
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.
