Science of the Invisible: Metajournals

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-12-04

Summary:

" ... Metabiology, a biology metajournal created by a band of editors. No original submissions, content comes from existing open access peer reviewed journals (including post-publication peer review). Editors add a metalayer of commentary to the original publications, filter into streams, which is what people seem to want. It's a bit like one of the big tech blogs but based on peer-reviewed content from the megajournals (and any of the boutique journals which are OA and survive). What's the business plan? I'm an ideas guy not a money guy, but generating sufficient income for sustainability is vital. That's why this is a biology journal not an education journal (like Martin Weller's Meta Ed Tech journal). In this case the money comes from meta advertising, for example Digital Science's 1DegreeBio or Scrazzl. This would be semi-semantic and targeted by data mining. How is this different from F1000? It's free and it's open. All the content can be read by everybody. If it's not OA it's not there. CC-BY. So are you actually going to do this? It depends what you mean by 'do'. If you mean do I want to be a managing editor for a journal, no. I would be interested in advising or having a curation role. In many ways this is what I have been doing for the last six years at MicrobiologyBytes. I have no plans to go it alone with this, I don't think it would be any more sustainable than Meta Ed Tech. I was thinking about pitching it to Digital Science, but I decided to blog about it first. If anyone from Digital Science (or anyone else) is interested, let me know.

Link:

http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/metajournals.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.biology oa.new oa.gold oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.licensing oa.mining oa.comment oa.copyright oa.cc oa.sustainability oa.megajournals oa.libre oa.journals oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

12/04/2012, 12:51

Date published:

12/04/2012, 07:51