Reforming science publishing

Metadata in Science Publishing

In the design of authoring systems in electronic publishing a great challenge is to what extent the author is able, can be enabled and is willing to structure the contribution her/himself. After all, all information that is denotated properly in the writing stage enhances the retrievability later on. Metadata are the crucial ingredients. Hence, prior to design and experiment is the need for a f...

Science publishing 2035

It is clear that we cannot disentangle the question of what the scientific journal will look like in twenty years’ time from the question of what the university and academia will look like. The pressures of competitive, individual research assessment, within an increasingly marketized world of higher education, would indicate a future of science publishing that is more closed, more niche, more ...

Reforming Scholarly Publishing in the Sciences: A Librarian Perspective

Introduction: The Librarian’s View of the Scholarly Publication System Research librarians—that is, librarians who work in large college, university, and private research libraries—today face the difficult challenge of managing their collections and information services during a period of crisis and profound change in scholarly publications. This crisis and change affect all fields of knowledge...

Reforming science: methodological and cultural reforms.

Contemporary science has brought about technological advances and an unprecedented understanding of the natural world. However, there are signs of dysfunction in the scientific community as well as threats from diverse antiscience and political forces. Incentives in the current system place scientists under tremendous stress, discourage cooperation, encourage poor scientific practices, and dete...

What academic publishing can do for science?