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Science Commons presentation on PLoS ONE and Article-Level Metrics

Peter Binfield — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:11:56 +0000

On Feb 20th, Microsoft hosted a “Science Commons Symposium” at their HQ in Redmond, WA. It was a great line up of speakers, and I was honored to be among them with an invitation to talk about PLoS ONE and our article-level metrics program.

Several people blogged about the meeting, and Brian Glanz provided an excellent running commentary for the entire day.

Courtesy of Microsoft Research, the full video coverage of all the talks are now online as follows: Session 1 (Microsoft Research; Cameron Neylon; Jean-Claude Bradley); Session 2 (Antony Williams; Peter Murray-Rust); Session 3 (Heather Joseph; Stephen Friend); and Session 4 (starring myself, in a warm up role for the keynote by John Wilbanks).You will need to install Silverlight to view the videos.

This was an excellent meeting, for which Microsoft and Science Commons deserve a lot of praise – I recommend the video coverage for anyone who couldnt be there.

Article Level Metrics presentation to Berkeley and UCSF

Peter Binfield — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:25:31 +0000

A few weeks ago I had the chance to present the PLoS Article Level Metrics program to audiences at both Berkeley and UCSF (via a simulcast). The organisers allowed me to devote a full hour to our program, and as a result this is the most detailed presentation that we have made on ALMs to date.

The presentation was recorded and so, by the power of multi-multi media, it is now available in many different formats – as a webcast (with both audio and video versions), as a YouTube video, and as a slidecast at MyPlick (incorporating audio, synced with the slides).

In addition, readers may be interested to learn that a FriendFeed room now exists for Article Level Metrics. We do not regard Article Level Metrics as a PLoS-only project and we hope (and expect) that other publishers will adopt the concepts that we are pioneering. Therefore, if was gratifying that this discussion forum was created by members of the community outside of PLoS. It is being used as a place to collect and discuss issues of relevance to the concept of Article Level Metrics (i.e. it is not specific to PLoS) and it is definitely worth subscribing to.

Let's Have An Awesome Time Publishing Science

Peter Binfield — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:26:24 +0000

On Friday last week I had the opportunity to present PLoS ONE (and, to some extent, PLoS) to a conference at UCSF called “Let’s Have an Awesome Time Doing Science”. The conference was an interesting blend of ‘regular’ conference and unconference, and from what I saw it worked out very well.

The powerpoint and synced audio can be found at Myplick, and the organisers also hope to put the full video of all presentations online sometime soon. My talk concentrated on PLoS ONE (as opposed to PLoS) – I went into some of our motivations and the reasons for our editorial criteria; quite a bit of detail on the PLoS Article-Level Metrics program; showed some sneak peeks of some upcoming features and finished up by demonstrating some of the power of Open Access in a world of interlinked databases. The audio includes approx 20 minutes of questions at the end, which also went into PLoS Currents: Influenza

In my opinion the presentation was… awesome!

Re-engineering the Scientific Journal

Peter Binfield — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:18:08 +0000

The inaugural meeting of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) was held in Lund University a couple of weeks ago. Audio, video and slides were recorded for all presentations and the entire conference is now freely available at the OASPA Web Site.

Of particular relevance to PLoS ONE is the presentation by Mark Patterson (Publishing Director of PLoS) regarding PLoS’s efforts towards a “Re-engineering of the Scientific Journal”. In this presenation, Mark goes into considerable detail about PLoS ONE, about the PLoS Article-Level Metrics launch, and PLoS Currents: Influenza and it should make fascinating viewing for anyone interested in the innovative work we are doing in online publishing.

Mark Patterson Presenting to OASPA

PLoS on Internet TV – Open Access and Scientific Publishing

Peter Binfield — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:23:13 +0000

Last week I had the opportunity to appear, with Jason Hoyt of Mendeley, in episode 14 of The Science Hour with Kirsten Sanford (Dr Kiki) and Leo Laporte (on Leo’s twit.tv site).

The discussion lasted about an hour and tackled various aspects of academic publishing in the internet era, open science, open access, how academics are measured and rewarded in the university tenure system, and our new developments in the area of Article-Level Metrics.

It can be accessed via Vimeo or at the original archive location and should be of interest to anyone interested in how academic publishing is changing today. I would like to thank Dr Kiki for the opportunity to appear and for the fascinating discussions that resulted.

The Future of Online Publishing (Presentation to ISMTE)

Peter Binfield — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:55:49 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to give a presentation entitled “The Future of Online Publishing” to the ISMTE (a professional body for Managing Editors of academic journals).

The talk is directed at an audience of people who think about journals from the publishing side of the business, but I think it will be of interest to a wider audience as well. The presentation and synced audio can be viewed at Myplick.

Just to spoil the suspense, my predictions for the near future were:

The future is (already) online
Publishing will move closer to the communities it serves
New evaluation methods will evolve
Publishers will provide new ‘bells and whistles’
Data will become increasingly important and may start to supplant primary publications
New tools will affect us in unknown ways