Revolutionizing research communication through a new academic publishing platform
abernard102@gmail.com 2016-04-15
Summary:
"The way that researchers communicate their work has not changed significantly in the last few centuries; academic publishing still relies on journal articles and has not kept up with technological advances, new analytical tools, or the globalization of research. To help address this discrepancy, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has granted Collaborative Knowledge Foundation, or CKF, $1.3M to develop a new open source, modular platform for scholarly knowledge production and academic publishing. The current format and delivery of journal articles bears a remarkable resemblance to scientific journals from hundreds of years ago. CKF is developing a framework consisting of open source software components that can be assembled and configured to handle many different research communication scenarios (traditional journal articles, books, new open science communication models, workflow sharing and linked outputs). The result will address the lack of modernization through faster, more transparent, better connected and more reproducible research communication ..."