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Notes from a Time-Traveling Publisher in Back to the Future

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Notes from a Time-Traveling Publisher in Back to the Future

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  1. Notes from a Time-Traveling PublisherinBack totheFuture AnAcademicpresentationby Dr.NancyAgnes,Head,TechnicalOperations,Pubrica Group: www.pubrica.com Email:sales@pubrica.com

  2. Outline IN BRIEF INTRODUCTION THEFIRSTJOURNAL WHATWOULDOLDENBURGHAVETHOUGHT? BACKTOTHE(RESEARCH)FUTURE CONCLUSION Today'sDiscussion

  3. Scientificjournaleditorsareimportantgatekeepersforadvancingcareersand disseminating information, but they are considerably less well-known than scientificwritersandreaders.ThisissueofCentaurusexploresthereasonsfor editorship and the methods, tactics, and resources required to carry it out successfully, using a range of methodological approaches. It invites us to consider how editors, editing, and editorship have evolved over two centuries andacrosscountries.

  4. Academicjournalsarewidelyacknowledgedascriticaltothecreation and dissemination of information and the development of academic reputations;nevertheless,itisnotjustthejournalsthatcount,butalso theeditorialproceduresofthosepublications. As a result, academic researchers learn early on in their careers to distinguishbetweentheeditorialpracticesofacademicjournalsand thoseofothermagazines,reviews,andperiodicals:contributionsto peer-reviewed academic journals take pride of place on the CV, publicationlist,orgrantapplication,whileotherformsofauthorship arerelegatedtothe“other”category(1). INTRODUCTION

  5. Historianshaveseentheinterchangeofscienceandtechnology throughthelensofscience’sapplicationtotechnology. However,Carnotclaimsthathecouldnothavecomposedhisfamous masterworkwithoutthesteamengine. HeclaimsthatthePhilosophicalTransactionsdonotcompletely providethekeytotheRoyalSociety’searlyattitude. Initially,itwasplannedasaprivatebusiness,butitgraduallybecame apartofsociety(2). THEFIRSTJOURNAL

  6. Henry Oldenburg (1619–5 September 1677) was a German philosopherwhoisregardedasoneofEurope’sfinestearlymodern scientificintelligencers. Hebeganhisprofessionasatutorandtravelledextensivelyaround Europe,meetingseveraleducatedpersonsandexpandinghisvast networkofconnections. Oldenburgwasanobviousoptionforthepositionofsocial secretary. WHATWOULDOLDENBURGHAVE THOUGHT?

  7. Society’s correspondence was entrusted to him because of his wide acquaintanceamongEurope’sintellectualsandhisabilitiesandaptitude asalinguist. Thesociety’smembersweremostlyuniversityprofessors,medical doctors,andinterestedindividuals. Membersofthesocietybegangatheringregularlytoaddressissues. TheRoyalSocietyusedtocompensatehimforhissecretarialwork,butit wasn’tenough,andhehadtooutalivinginanunsafefinancialcondition. In1665,OldenburgproposedtotheRoyalSocietyproposingtopublisha printedversionofthesociety’sscientificcommunications.

  8. AlthoughthisnewventurewasintendedtopromotetheRoyalSociety’s scientificactivitybysavinghimthetimeandeffortofcopyingthesame news to all of the society’s members in half a dozen languages, his primary motivation was purely financial: he believed that this venture wouldprovidehimwithadecentliving. ThePhilosophicalTransactionswascreatedasaresultofthis(3). ThenhediscoveredthattheRoyalSocietyhadfoundedPhilosophical Transactions.

  9. Hewasamazedthatpublisherswerestilldoingexactlywhathehad intendedforhismagazinemorethan350yearslater. Buthesoonrecognizedthatapublisheroramagazinewasnolonger necessaryforthreeofthefourtasks. Registration: The world no longer needs journals to ensure that a researchpaperwasregistered,thankstoDOIs(DigitalObjectIdentifiers) orothertypesofUIDs(UniqueIdentifiers). Journalswouldbeunnecessaryiftherewereanyothersortsofuniversal repositoryforpublications.

  10. Distribution:Withopenaccess,disseminationwouldbeautomated,and noonewouldberequiredtodistributethearticles. Certificationwasstillasvitalasithadalwaysbeen. Again,peerreviewwasrequired,butthedifficultywasthatmorearticles were being published than the specialists could process, making it sluggishanddifficulttofindhigh-qualityresearch.

  11. Researchers will be able to register their work automatically in the future by ‘depositing’ (rather than submitting) their ‘Research Objects.’ They will addproceduresandtechniqueswhentheyareready andthensharetheresults. They can exchange films, interactive visuals, comments,notes,shortreports,peerreviews,data sets,andanyotherobjectrelatedtotheirwork. BACKTOTHE(RESEARCH) FUTURE

  12. Many print-based paradigms will be completely outdated in 20 years. Traditionaljournalsmaycombineandbereplacedbycontentsetsbased onthemesandsubjects(1).

  13. Therewerenationaldifferencesineditorshipacross Europeinthelate19thandearly20thcenturies. Nationaldifferenceshavediminishedasscientific editing has become more professionalized, academicized,andinternationalized,yettheyhave not(yet)vanished. Moreover, academic infrastructures changed substantiallyacrossEuropeovermostoftheperiod covered by this special issue, implying that the incentives of editorship and the methods and resources required to carry it out successfully differed. CONCLUSION

  14. Wehopethattheofferingsinthisissuewillpromptagreaterfocuson thosetactics,theirregionalvariations,andhowtheyhaveevolved.

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