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Scholarship and Publication, the Web WayPRESSFORWARD
Discovering Scholarship on the Open WebCommunities and Methods
Joan Fragaszy Troyano, Project Director
Purdue University LibraryApril 15, 2013
http://pressforward.org@pressfwd
Tuesday, January 14, 14
Discovering Scholarship on the Open WebCommunities and Methods
Disseminating for broader reach
http://pressforward.org/discovering-scholarship
Curating based on value
Aggregating from multiple sources
Tuesday, January 14, 14
Scholarly Communication Online
journals repositoriesweb publications communitiesSources
Gray Literature conference papers reports“blessays” comments pre-prints data sets
Purpose discuss evaluatehighlight disseminate
http://pressforward.org/discovering-scholarship
Tuesday, January 14, 14
Algorithms and Editors
http://pressforward.org/discovering-scholarshipTuesday, January 14, 14
Active Editors
Tuesday, January 14, 14
Academic Versions?
ContentEvaluation SkillsDesire
Things We Have Things We Need
EffortMethodsRecognition
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So What are Scholars Doing?
✓ Using Repositories
✕ Aggregating Content
✕ Curating Content
✓ Post-Publication Review and Discussion
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Repositories
examples: arXiv.org; SSRN.com; PLoSOne.orgTuesday, January 14, 14
Aggregation Sites
example: scienceseeker.orgTuesday, January 14, 14
Curating
examples: hubs.plos.org; pressthink.orgTuesday, January 14, 14
Post-PublicationReview and Discussion
econjournalwatch.org; f1000.comTuesday, January 14, 14
1. Function of Site
2. Type of Content
3. How Content Submitted
4. Editorial Control
5. Selection Method
6. Review Method
7. Distribution Method
8. Sustainability Model
Rubric for Scholarly Communication Outlets
pressforward.org/discovering-scholarship/Tuesday, January 14, 14
Our Experiment
digitalhumanitiesnow.orgTuesday, January 14, 14
Digital Humanities Now
3 Editors in Chief120 Editors at large
600 sources1,000 pieces a week
2 hours/week to review2 hours/week to publish2 hours/week to maintain
8,000 Twitter followers
*Current as of April 2013*
Tuesday, January 14, 14
* Graphic by Spencer Roberts *
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TheJournal
(the best ofEditors’ Choices)
“Now”Editors’ Choices
(the best relevant content)
Relevant Content to a Field
Compendium + Radar Finds
The Open Web
quarterly
weekly
daily
including all genres of scholarly production
Model for a Community-Sourced
Journal
Tuesday, January 14, 14
What We Need (Short Term)
Place to review RSS that we control
Easier nomination to publication process
Help identifying good content
PressForward Plugin and Classifier Program
Tuesday, January 14, 14
PressForward PluginSurvey RSS Feeds
https://github.com/PressForward/pressforwardTuesday, January 14, 14
review/comment
PressForward PluginReview and Discuss Content
Tuesday, January 14, 14
PressForward PluginFrom Nomination to Publication
Tuesday, January 14, 14
PressForward PluginDistribution and Dissemination
Tuesday, January 14, 14
Automated Surfacing of Quality Content
Active learning�
When used? Label data is expensive or time consuming. Why used good results for smallamounts of labeled data in imbalanced set;�
Support Vector Machine (SVM)�
slide by Xin Guan, George Mason University pressforward.org/classifier-researchTuesday, January 14, 14
TheJournal
(the best ofEditors’ Choices)
“Now”Editors’ Choices
(the best relevant content)
Relevant Content to a Field
Compendium + Radar Finds
The Open Web
quarterly
weekly
daily
including all genres of scholarly production
Model for a Community-Sourced
Journal
Tuesday, January 14, 14
How Do We Identify Content of Lasting Value?
Tuesday, January 14, 14
journalofdigitalhumanities.orgTuesday, January 14, 14
What We Need (Long Term)
Work Shared on Open Web
Sharing of Curation Efforts with Others
Recognition of Opportunity and Value
Easier Publication Methods for Open Web
Tuesday, January 14, 14
Questions?
Scholarship and Publication, the Web Way
PRESSFORWARD
pressforward.orgTuesday, January 14, 14