Overview of the Ubiquity Press approach to Open Access and Open Scholarship for Open Access Week 2018. Presentation given at the Levy Library at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, New York, October 24th 2018.
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To achieve a revolution in open scholarship, returning control of
publishing to universities, libraries and researchers, by providing
them with the infrastructure, skills and support to succeed.
Background
Mission
Spun out of University College London in 2012
Researcher-led
200+ 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…
About Ubiquity Press
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Institutional customers
Must demonstrate community
values and provide guarantees
Determine who we will integrate
and work with
STEERING BOARD
Verify that charter is upheld in
significant investment or acquisition
PARTNERSHIP RULES
Community Driven
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The Social Contract of Academia
• Validation
• Dissemination
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Data, software, hardware,
wetware…
• Results
Source: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/2003-05-01
Unconditionally Open
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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
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European Commission plus 13
national research funding
organizations
‘cOAlition S’
“After 1 January 2020 scientific
publications on the results from
research funded by public
grants provided by national and
European research councils and
funding bodies, must be
published in compliant Open
Access Journals or on compliant
Open Access Platforms.”
Funders to cover APCs
APCs to be capped
No ‘hybrid’ OA
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• National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering and Medicine (2018)
'A Vision for 21st Century
Research’
• "research conducted openly and
transparently leads to better science"
Available at: http://nap.edu/25116
• "Additional funding, mandates, and
community initiatives can be deployed
to push towards open science, but
careful planning of stakeholder buy-in
will be needed to avoid unintended
negative consequences and
disruptions."
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Means openness throughout the research lifecycle,
not just open access at the end:
Open Scholarship
Data Management Plans
Protocols / methodologies
Research data and software at all stages
Laboratory notebooks
Preprints
Peer-reviewed research results (articles, books)
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Legacy publishers have lobbied against the
right to electronically read even already
purchased content.
https://www.futuretdm.eu/
Machine reading of large volumes of papers
and datasets
More efficient, discovers otherwise
unknown correlations
Significant potential to accelerate science,
accelerate economic growth
Text and Data Mining
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
The Ubiquity Network:
Access to a large peer review pool (100,000+)
Content cascading
Editor sourcing
