Dr. Jessica Polka: Revolutionizing Biomedical Research Communication

tagteam101's bookmarks 2017-09-01

Summary:

"In the longer-term future, one could envision a system where researchers post their scientific contributions; a paper, a single figure, a method, a hypothesis; where we have the potential to make smaller contributions to the global knowledge base and get credit for those contributions in a manner that is more rapid and incremental. This would allow multiple scientists to collaborate and contribute to what we now know of as a single paper. Part of the challenge of the next 10 years is the problem of increasing information overload. Journals in the life sciences are aware that preprints have been around in physics for 25 years, and that the existence of preprints do not diminish the need for journals in that field. It is already impossible for a person to read all the relevant literature in their area, and this will only get harder. We need better tools to read and comprehend the literature, and a lot of these tools will be given by innovations in software and machine learning. My hope is that more of the literature is accessible to text and data mining, which will enhance our ability to understand the literature beyond that of a single human reader...."

Link:

http://www.signaltonoisemag.com/allarticles/2017/8/30/dr-jessica-polka-revolutionizing-biomedical-research-communication?utm_content=bufferd5e87&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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oa.medicine oa.biomedicine oa.mining oa.benefits oa.speed oa.interviews oa.preprints oa.versions oa.people

Date tagged:

09/01/2017, 13:07

Date published:

09/01/2017, 06:48