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OPEN Peer Review to save the world Michael Taylor (PhD, CPhys) National Observatory of Athens
patternizer@gmail.com
alpha @libreapp
Peer review… to save the world??!
• As we move toward a Type I civilization our socio-economic world is getting more global & interconnected…
Type I — a civilization that is able to harness all
of the power P available on a single planet
(Pearth ≈ 1.7 ×1017 W)
Type II — a civilization capable of harnessing the
luminosity of its own star (Psun ≈ 3.9 ×1026 W)
Type III — a civilization with access to energy on
the scale of the luminosity of its own galaxy
(Pmilky way ≈ 4 ×1037 W)
𝐾 =𝑙𝑜𝑔10𝑃 − 6
10
Kardashev, Nikolai (1964) Soviet Astronomy 8: 217 Sagan (1973) Cosmic Connection.
Cambridge Press, ISBN 0-521-78303-8
…meaning that systemic impacts are more macroscopic
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Modern impacts & threats are they just tabloid science ?!
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
The Journal Publishing Model made us think...
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
openscholar.org.uk
We got together with others to test new models
108 volunteers from 17 countries
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
LIBRE = LIBerating REsearch but from what exactly?!
• PUBLICATION DELAYS slow processes & embargos • BARRIERS TO INFO paywall$ • DEPENDENCE ON CITATION INDICES poor stats • COPYRIGHT LOSS no creative re-use (we need CC-BY) • REJECTION RATES waste, curtail output & miss ops • RETRACTION RATES bad info stays in circulation • AUTHOR CHARGES knowledge divide • LOW VISIBILITY unindexed OA & “the long tail” • LIMITED PEER-REVIEW danger of bias with 2-3 people
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Publication delays >8 months (even before any embargo)
Björk & Solomon (2013) Journal of Informetrics 7(4), 914-923.
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Barriers to info paywall$ (and e.g. linguistic barriers)
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Dependence on citation indices poor statistics
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Copyright loss creates loss of creative re-use rights and OA
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Rejection Rates cause submission cascades & waste time
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Retraction Rates put lives at risk
Steen, R. G. (2011). Retractions in the medical literature: how many patients are put at risk by flawed research?. Journal of medical ethics, 37(11), 688-692.
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Figure 2. Percentage of retractions vs. percentage of 2010 Web of Science records among 12 broad scholarly fields.
Retraction Rates may be an early warning bell about Gold OA
Grieneisen & Zhang M (2012) PLoS ONE 7(10): e44118.
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Retraction Rates mean wrong info stays in circulation for years
Fang, Steen & Casadevall (2012) PNAS 109(42), 17028-17033.
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Journal Peer Review is limited, left to trust and prone to bias
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
An ideal (journal-independent) model should be …
COOPERATIVE free & data-linked FAST un-moderated & zero-embargo FAIR accessible, OA and persistent HONEST transparent INSPIRING social & credit-giving OBJECTIVE collectively wise & reproducible INNOVATIVE open source
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
A new model the “Open Publication”
OpenAIRE COAR,
OpenDOAR …
LIBRE OpenAIRE
COAR, OpenDOAR ?
Authors? Journals?
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
LIBRE is our attempt at demonstrating independent peer-review
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
LIBRE is open source and we welcome your input at GitHub
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
www.openscholar.org.uk/independent-peer-review-initiative
Greece is the launchpad for the Independent Peer Review Initiative
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Greece is in 12th position (1.13% of the top 1% cited articles EVER)
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Greece has HUGE research output potential
Press WH (2013) What's So Special About Science (And How Much Should We Spend on It?). Science, 342(6160), 817-822.
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Greece is VERY active & innovative in OA
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Beckett, C., & Inger, S. (2006). Self-archiving and journal subscriptions: co-existence or competition. Publishing Research Consortium: PRC Summary Papers, 2.
It’s important to ask librarians what do they really want
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
So, can (independent) Peer Review save the world MAYBE
Björk, Bo-Christer et al (2009) PloS one 5.6: e11273.
Gargouri & Harnad (2010) Eprints: August 28. 2010
HELP US TO MANDATE IPR AT OA REPOSITORIES
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
MICHAEL TAYLOR / openscholar.org.uk / @libreapp / patternizer@gmail.com
Inspired by the essay…
Many thanks for your thoughts