User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/COASP 2010/Notes

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Background

  • For technical reasons, publishing was historically a separate step, performed about once per iteration of the research cycle
  • Publishing every relevant bit of information immediately at each step is technically feasible now, and the remaining hurdles are cultural ones.


Wikis as platforms for science communication


Wikis as platforms for scholarly publishing

  • Publication lists (incl. supplementary materials and in principle direct links to the raw data)
  • Knol shares some aspects with wikis and blogs and is already in use for PLoS Currents.


Wikis as platforms for Open Access publishing

Business models

  • Main ones: author-pays, (partial) subscription, philanthropy, advertising, premium services
  • Not really tried yet: article-specific Job ads (e.g. via subpages)