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Three Genres in e-Scientific Publishing AND Three Scientists’ Dilemmas

Curator: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

That’s what I tell students. The way to succeed is to get born at the right time and in the right place. If you can do that then you are bound to succeed. You have to be receptive and have some talent as well.

Professor Sydney Brenner, a professor of Genetic medicine at the University of Cambridge and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 2002

Genres in e-Scientific Publishing

(A) Cell/Nature/Science

• Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?

Stephen Buranyi – June 27, 2017

• How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Innovation: A Conversation with Sydney Brenner

Elizabeth Dzeng — Feb 24th, 2014

• http://www.cell.com/
• http://www.sciencemag.org/
• https://www.nature.com/
• In 1998, Elsevier rolled out its plan for the internet age, which would come to be called “The Big Deal”. It offered electronic access to bundles of hundreds of journals at a time: a university would pay a set fee each year – according to a report based on freedom of information requests, Cornell University’s 2009 tab was just short of $2m – and any student or professor could download any journal they wanted through Elsevier’s website. Universities signed up en masse. …. Elsevier owned 24% of the scientific journal market, while Maxwell’s old partners Springer, and his crosstown rivals Wiley-Blackwell, controlled about another 12% each. These three companies accounted for half the market. (An Elsevier representative familiar with the report told me that by their own estimate they publish only 16% of the scientific literature.) Stephen Buranyi – June 27, 2017.  Elsevier published 420,000 papers last year, after receiving 1.5m submissions Stephen Buranyi – June 28, 2017 [numbers correction to 6/27/2017.]

(B) Open Access Journals and the Phenomenon

• EDP Sciences
• eLIFE

1. Biochemistry
2. Biophysics and Structural Biology
3. Cancer Biology
4. Cell Biology
5. Computational and Systems Biology
6. Developmental Biology and Stem Cells
7. Epidemiology and Global Health
8. Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
9. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
10. Neuroscience

• PeerJ MODEL for Open Access Online Scientific Journal
• Read Cube
• F1000Research: An Original Open Access Journal for Life Scientists
• Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP)
• “Beall’s list” a blacklist of “predatory” journals: Scientific Articles to be Accepted for Publications followed by a Bill to Pay for been Published

(C) Curation of Scientific Findings

• Science and Curation: The New Practice of Web 2.0
• Scoop.it

• PharmaceuticalIntelligence.com – The LEADER in that Genre

Scientists’ Dilemmas

(1) Confirming or disproving past studies

(2) Decades-long pursuit of a risky “moonshot”

(3) Trendy Topics with Editors 

@ PharmaceuticalIntelligence.com –  A Case Study on the LEADER in Curation of Scientific Findings

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2017/06/29/pharmaceuticalintelligence-com-a-case-study-on-the-leader-in-curation-of-scientific-findings/