Changing Landscape of Science Publishing

I was asked to provide some background for a class on Ethics in the Darwinian Sciences on the topic of the Changing Landscape of Science Publishing. Here's the list of resources I thought made a starting point into the ethical questions and changes going on.--Trish

Essentials

To sort out thorny issues (e.g., authorship disputes, accusations of plagiarism, retractions): Committee on Publication Ethics [COPE]: https://publicationethics.org/

To cover the basic responsibilities and ethics of each role in publishing: Council of Science Editors [CSE]: https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/

To get an overview on copyright, publication agreements, and creative commons licenses: https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2018/02/07/intellectual-property-law-101-for-academics/

Guides on how to

• Do peer review https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BES-Peer-Review-Guide-2017_web.pdf
• Archive data https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BES-Data-Guide-2017_web.pdf
• Create reproducible code https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/guide-to-reproducible-code.pdf
• Get published https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BES-Getting-Published-Guide-2017_web.pdf

Authorship

Solve the questions of authorship BEFORE you write the paper

• COPE Guide to new authors on all the considerations: https://publicationethics.org/files/2003pdf12.pdf
• CSE Guide: https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/resource-library/editorial-policies/white-paper-on-publication-ethics/2-2-authorship-and-authorship-responsibilities/
• Order of authors (changing discipline cultures in first, last, and corresponding author): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.3435/abstract

Peer Review

• NSF conflicts of interest (what the American Naturalist refers to for COI): https://www.nsf.gov/attachments/108234/public/coi_1230P.doc
• Double blind to combat implicit bias: http://comments.amnat.org/2014/12/am-nat-goes-double-blind-in-new-year.html
• Promoting diversity: https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/choosing-reviewers-recognition-not-recall-and-why-lists-like-diversifyeeb-are-useful/
• Open review and post publication review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350441/

Open Science

Learn what your funders require--Gold OA, Green OA, self-archiving, opening the paywall, APCs, licenses. Read anything you sign.

• Commentary on the goals, economics, and problems of open access publishing: https://smw.ch/en/article/doi/smw.2018.14600/
• Columnist who covers all the OA news and arguments, Richard Poynder: https://poynder.blogspot.com/

Arguments for Open Science at all project stages

• Data archiving policy in Evolution and Ecology explained and announced: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/650340
• Group working to expand transparency, Center for Open Science: https://cos.io/top/
• Center for Open Science’s transparency framework as it breaks down for one journal: http://comments.amnat.org/2017/11/transparency-and-open-science.html

Preprints

Early sharing, green open access, disrupting traditional publishing

• An overview: https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/role-of-preprints-in-journal-publishing/
• Science guide for scientists on preprints: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/are-preprints-future-biology-survival-guide-scientists
• Moderation/review: https://web.hypothes.is/blog/preprint-services-gather-to-explore-an-annotated-future/
• Overlay journals: https://evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/about/faq#Do and http://asapbio.org/

Evaluation Metrics

• What Journal Impact Factor is, problems with the metrics/stats, how it hurts original research: http://comments.amnat.org/2017/08/impact-factors-and-original-research.html
• Article-level metrics: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/09/01/altmetrics-and-research-assessment-how-not-to-let-history-repeat-itself/
• Track the Altmetrics of any article: https://www.altmetric.com/products/free-tools/bookmarklet/
• The quest for better metrics Declaration on Research Assessment [DORA]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01642-w
• Measuring social impact: https://www.researchtrends.com/issue-33-june-2013/the-challenges-of-measuring-social-impact-using-altmetrics/

Science Social Media

• Study on how and why scientists use it: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0162680
• Meghan Duffy’s great overview on how she uses Twitter to help her do science: https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/why-i-use-twitter/
• The good and the bad of getting on Twitter: https://smallpondscience.com/2015/10/21/the-dangers-of-twitter/
• What it’s like to live through the changing landscape and make the choices that are best for you: https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/advice-why-some-academics-shouldnt-read-blogs-or-use-twitter-or-facebook/
• Science communication to the public toolkit: https://www.compassscicomm.org/tools-resources
• Book: Ethics and Practice in Science Communication in a confrontational age: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo27760792.html

 

Blog by Publishers on the Changing Landscape

• Society for Scholarly Publishing blog: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/