What is the added value of a traditional publisher? | Research Information

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-01-24

Summary:

"The current dissatisfaction with scientific publishers is an obvious issue, with practices, such as 'double dipping' and services, such as the reprint servers, becoming the reason for the community to ask: what exactly is the added value of a traditional publisher? From our point of view, as a fully gold open access publisher and technology provider, there is an urgent need for publishers to demonstrate transparency, when it comes to forming their price policy, alongside a strong will to develop and adapt technologically together with the needs of the community. This is exactly why we have projects such as the Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal (www.riojournal.com), in our portfolio. RIO demonstrates our will to work towards true open science, where outputs along the full research cycle are published alongside the final peer-reviewed research article. These include research proposals, data, methods, negative results, presentation abstracts, software descriptions in a single research project collection. Opening the research cycle in this way does not only stimulate re-use and help researchers avoid duplication of work, but can also promote collaboration and interdisciplinarity. The real value to publish in RIO also comes from the fact that upon publication all these outputs become citable and discoverable. This functionality is, in fact, enabled on all our journals thanks to our publishing platform ARPHA, which is specifically developed to provide high level of automation and technologically advanced workflows, not only on terms of dissemination of archiving, but also for semantic enhancements of published content and integrations with industry’s leading service providers. ..."

Link:

https://www.researchinformation.info/news/analysis-opinion/what-added-value-traditional-publisher

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oa.new oa.publishers oa.interviews oa.rio oa.plan_s oa.double_dipping oa.impact oa.altmetrics oa.hybrid oa.societies oa.platforms oa.infrastructure oa.arpha oa.metrics oa.up oa.people

Date tagged:

01/24/2019, 12:42

Date published:

01/24/2019, 07:42