LOA2020 Asking questions to solve a problem
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This document summarizes a presentation about scientific publishing and open access. It discusses some of the challenges researchers and publishers currently face, such as long publication times and high journal costs. It proposes that a new model is needed that reduces workload, equitably shares resources, and incentivizes open sharing over "publish or perish". The presenter advocates building a technological infrastructure to support researchers and democratize access to academic content, so that scientific dissemination looks very different if developed today. The goal is to empower researchers and universities through serving the public interest.
LOA2020 Asking questions to solve a problem
- 1. Asking Questions to Solve a Problem Presented by Abeni Wickham , PhD LOA 2020 SciFree AB
- 2. Introduction Who do we serve? What would scientific dissemination look like if it began today? How do we move forward, together? OUR OVERVIEW
- 3. I N T R O Born in Guyana, South America HS in Jamaica Queens: Intro to Advanced Research Tufts: BME/Philosophy UCL: Biomaterials Linköping Uni: MolyPhys/Regen Med Max Planck Colloids & Interfaces: Collagen Imperial College: Cardiac/Collagen A PhD didn't come easy.
- 4. The Process "The thing we do can never define who we are but it is the activity that helps us express and realise who we are at our centre" - Dr. Michael Gervais
- 5. Who do we serve? Public? The University? The Researchers? Ourselves?
- 6. Fake News is free, then shouldn't science be free too? The Public To abandon facts is to abandon freedom -Prof Snyder (Yale University)
- 7. How do we stay relevant in a world where everyone can be an expert after a few YouTube videos? The University "The future is already here, it is just not evenly distributed." -William Gibson
- 8. Publish or Perish The Researcher You can't control the outcomes, just the processes. As long as you've used the best process you've done the best that you can. - Tom Griffiths (Psychologist, cognitive scientist)
- 9. What value can I create? Ourselves "The only difference between what is possible and impossible is your willingness to acquire the skills and put them to the test"- Tom Bilyeu
- 10. O k , well, s t ar t y our own c om pany and pr ov e it ! 1 2 3 4 The workload of researchers and libraries can be reduced so they can share and serve Why Technological Infrastructure to incentivise change How People who value the process of research Who Now When
- 11. T h e B i g Q u e s t i o n What would scientific dissemination look like if it began today?
- 12. S c i e n t i f i c F r e e d o m Reduce academia's publishing workload Equitable distribution of academic content and resources Change the business model incentive from Publish or Perish to Share and Serve. D e m o c r a t i s a t i o n o f A c a d e m i c C o n t e n t S c i F r e e A B 2 0 1 8 S t o c k h o l m
- 13. St ar t - up lif e It is the same as starting a research group :-) IDEA Day 1 Year 2 5 Years Start a company apply for 13 grants Apply for more grants, learn to pitch, learn accounting and so much more. Continuous Learn to be a good CEO
- 14. It was me! Being the first to discover Formatting Each journal has its own publishing styles. Would be easier to resubmit a paper to another journal without tiresome and laborious reformatting Peer-Review Long Revision time (record 13 months) T he Resear cher What do you hate & love about scientific publishing? Satisfaction vs Anxiety Don't like that publishing has become a business leading to many lower quality journals > 1 0 0 r e s e a r c h e r s i n 2 0 1 8 / 2 0 1 9
- 15. Prestige Being the first to discover Formatting The process of resubmitting manuscripts, different submissions systems Peer-review Long Review Process T he Publisher s What do you hate & love about scientific publishing? Satisfaction vs Anxiety Love/hate the reward and the incentive systems > 5 2 p u b l i s h e r s a t A L P S P c o n f e r e n c e 2 0 1 9
- 16. Prestige Being the first to discover Connecting Researchers don't know all the work you are doing for them Price High Costs, No Value T he Univer sit y What do you hate & love about scientific publishing? Open Access Everyone should know what your university is capable of.
- 17. We listen, then we build S c i F r e e E m p o w e r i n g R e s e a r c h e r s a n d U n i v e r s i t i e s
- 18. T E C H 1 Where to Publish
- 19. We have a lot of people to serve Number of researchers Consider creating the value for yourselves Value The public, the researchers, the students are waiting for us to join the democratisation of information movement. W ho do we serve? UNESCO 2030 Agenda Report7million Revenue for Publishers>10billion
- 20. Values drive innovation We serve each other Build for each other Running a start-up as a researcher: question, review and implement (they call it “lean” we call it “scientific methodology” ) OUR SUMMARY
- 21. THANK YOU! Serving with help from: Contact abeniwickham@scientificfreedom.org www.scientificfreedom.org