To transform research communication we need incremental results, data, and all outputs shared at each stage, with incentives that match. Preprints and open data policies are not enough.

1. Beyond the Journal: Scholarly
Communication Throughout the
Research Life Cycle
Presented by Kristen Ratan to the EC Expert Panel on the
Future of Scholarly Communication 26 March 2018, Brussels

2. Proposal: Return scholarly communication
to being a public good
An open ecosystem that ensures that the
production, communication, access, and use
of all research objects across the research
cycle maximizes the global public good by
being rapid, transparent, relevant, equitable,
and inclusive.

3. Research Lifecycle – Sharing Outputs At Every Stage
Data/results
Micropublications
PreprintArticle
Discovery and
Use
Data is annotated and
openly available,
notebooks are shared
Short, citable
publications are shared
early and often
Early forms of article are posted
and available for comment, and
various forms of review
Article is a living publication,
able to be updated, versioned,
and open access
Research objects are
networked to each other
and available for real-time
collaboration
Incentives and rewards
motivate the behavior
at each stage

4. Challenges in research communication
Slow
Static
Incentives don’t work
Entrenched commercialization

5. The path is
not linear

6. Communities are working to solve these problems
• Caltech Wormbase Micropublications, RapidScience, eLife’s collaborative
peer review, PLOS Currents, F1000Research, preprint projects/services
Slow
• Stencila living figures and data-driven documents, RapidScience Evidence
Reviews, Hypothes.is, data/code repositories
Static
• Removing journal name in researcher assessment, RapidScience’s
collaboration score, alternative metrics, “counting” preprints in
tenure/promotion/grant, funder publishing channels
Incentives
• Open access, standing up to “big deals”, open source alternatives to
commercial vendors, efforts to track true costs of publishing, low cost/free
publishing alternatives
Entrenchment

7. Coko believes...
No one platform can solve all the problems.
We need an ecosystem of tools and software.
We should build modular & interoperable things.
The community must create and own solutions.

8. Coko’s Editoria Coko’s xPub
eLife
Libero
OJS
WaxTexture
StencilaDAT INK
xSweet
Science
Fair
Substance
library
Platforms
Tool
s
The Open Ecosystem
CERN’s
Invidio
Services
Open
Review
Collabor-
ation
Hosting
3rd Party
Peer
Review
Copy-
editing
Pop-up
Publishing

9. ConversionSubmission
Semantics
enhancers
AnnotationNotebooks Metadata
Peer
review
Versions
Production
PubSweet Publishing
Authoring
Editorial
tools
Revision
Syndica-
tion
Web
delivery
Reviewer
matching
Real-time
collabora-
tion
Discovery
tools
Open, modular architecture
enables innovation and
collaboration

10. PubSweet
Three use cases (so far)
Books
Journals
Micropublications
Design Developmentcycles Testing Launch

11. PubSweet
Books: Editoria

12. PubSweet
Journals:xPub

13. PubSweet
Micropublications:xPub

14. Service providers
Partnering tech
organizations
First wave adoption
Early adopters
Code contributors
Core OS project
Broad
Community
Community
Led Open
Source
Core OS
project
Core OS
project

15. It’s working
An improvement for one becomes an
improvement for all.
Individual communities can focus on
core areas of expertise — peer review,
hosting, discovery — knowing that their
innovations will improve the entire
system.
The result is more creativity, a more
diverse set of solutions, and, ultimately,
faster progress.
-Andrew Smeall, Hindawi
Having other people build components
to solve the problems you are facing is
a great benefit of a common
infrastructure.
but also knowing that what you’re
building is useful to more than just your
team really adds energy and purpose to
our teams of developers and designers.
-Paul Shannon, eLife

16. @kristenratan 16
Get in touch:
@kristenratan
kristen@coko.foundation