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New forms of scholarly communication

Explore new forms of scholarly communication like Eprints and peer review models. Discuss benefits, drawbacks, changing costs, and the impact on quality. Learn about forms of rating, expert and reader judgments, and incentivized content models. Dive into projects like the Interlib project and research notebooks. Discover challenges and other topics like image search, automatic categorization, and GIS in scholarly communication.

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New forms of scholarly communication

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  1. New forms of scholarly communication Hal R. Varian UC Berkeley http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal

  2. Eprints • Eprints • Benefits • fast, inexpensive, inclusive • Drawbacks • peer review, version control, permanence • Models (function and cost) • centralized (LANL) • decentralized (CS reports) • moderated (SSRN)

  3. Peer review • Publication as costly signal of quality • redundant in some areas (physics?) • too many journals reduce value of signal • difficulty with monographs • Changing costs • when publication was expensive, filter ex ante • when publication is cheap, filter ex post

  4. Ex post review • Peer review • don’t have to be 0-1 • implict rating: hits • explicit rating: 0-5 • improve quality of article • suggestions -- need version control • comments -- need threading system

  5. Forms of rating • Anonymous • mediated v non-mediated • open to all v restricted • Signed • endorsements • Recommender systems • Grouplens • gaming the system?

  6. Dimensions of rating • Is this interesting? • May be able to tell easily • Patterns of reading articles • Is this correct? • Usually requires more effort • Mathematicians and philosophers

  7. Form of articles? • Abstract (1 paragraph) • “5 page version” • article • appendix

  8. Possible model • Experts judge interest based on 5-page • Readers judge correctness • Prizes as incentive • “best of” collections in print or CD • Forms • threaded, cross linked, notification system, recommender system

  9. Interlib project • Berkeley, Stanford, UCSB • Berkeley • “distributed, continuous, self-publishing” • tools • collaboration using MVD • electronic research notebook • content analysis • images, text

  10. Multivalent documents • Document is many layers • languages • scanned bits + OCR text • commentary • Challenges • interface, manipulation, document types

  11. Research notebook • “Palm pilot” device • networked repository • search, creation and annotation of documents from large collections • Interface for searching and visualizing large collections of documents

  12. Other topics • Image search and analysis • Mathematical documents • Automatic categorization • Access control and rights management • Business models • GIS • Testbed: environmental data

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