SHARE: Community-focused Infrastructure and a Public Goods, Scholarly Database to Advance Access to Research

Hudson‐Vitale, Cynthia; Johnson, Richard P.; Ruttenberg, Judy; Spies, Jeffrey R.

doi:10.1045/may2017-vitale

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“…The Open Science by Design report that was released by the United States (US) National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is a step towards that [69]. Research is global and scholarly communities need interoperable hubs, interlinking data, and infrastructures supporting information exchange across repositories with standards, metadata schema, and semantic interoperability, as there is lack of standards for aggregating data that is used across platforms [70]. Preprints are disrupting the scholarly communication system and many leading publishers are slowly participating in the process-supporting, accepting of, and archiving in preprint repositories.…”

Section: Towards Building Sustainable Open Infrastructures With Preprmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preprints in Scholarly Communication: Re-Imagining Metrics and Infrastructures

Balaji

Dhanamjaya

2019

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Digital scholarship and electronic publishing within scholarly communities change when metrics and open infrastructures take center stage for measuring research impact. In scholarly communication, the growth of preprint repositories as a new model of scholarly publishing over the last three decades has been one of the major developments. As it unfolds, the landscape of scholarly communication is transitioning—with much being privatized as it is made open—and turning towards alternative metrics, such as social media attention, author-level, and article-level metrics. Moreover, the granularity of evaluating research impact through new metrics and social media changes the objective standards of evaluating research performance. Using preprint repositories as a case study, this article situates them in a scholarly web, examining their salient features, benefits, and futures. Moves towards scholarly web development and publishing on the semantic and social web with open infrastructures, citations, and alternative metrics—how preprints advance building the web as data—is discussed. We determine that this will viably demonstrate new metrics and, by enhancing research publishing tools in the scholarly commons, facilitate various communities of practice. However, for preprint repositories to be sustainable, scholarly communities and funding agencies should support continued investment in open knowledge, alternative metrics development, and open infrastructures in scholarly publishing.

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Section: Towards Building Sustainable Open Infrastructures With Preprmentioning

confidence: 99%