{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "chem-bla-ics", "description": "Chemblaics (pronounced chem-bla-ics) is the science that uses open science and computers to solve problems in chemistry, biochemistry and related fields.", "home_page_url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/", "feed_url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2024/09/16/publishing.json", "icon": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/assets/images/chem-bla-ics_logo.png", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286", "_orcid": "0000-0001-7542-0286" } ], "items": [ { "id": "https://doi.org/10.59350/7qe60-evp05", "url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2024/09/16/publishing.html", "title": "Better Publishing", "content_html": "

If you read my blog, it should not surprise you that I have long experimented with technologies\nto improve knowledge dissemination, for example in HTML. And I have blogged about publishing\nfrom an author and researcher, and editor perspective, for many years (see this longer list\non my old blog).\nAlso, in the Journal of Cheminformatics\nwe pushed for innovation, including ORCID and GitHub adoption and Citation Typing Ontology adoption.

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All of these depend on the publisher to support these efforts. But the big publishers are not good\nat this (see also doi:10.5281/zenodo.4926031\nand/or prefer to make 20-30% profit first.

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This opens room for innovative publishers. We have F1000Research pushing open peer review,\nand PenSoft pushing a new editor,\nOverleaf bringing collaborative online editing of LaTeX,\n[Qeios] experimenting with a wider range of output types,\nand the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) pioneering\na more open platform for the whole editing process.

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And, of course, we have Diamond Open Access\npublishers that do not get enough visibility, like SciPost\nand Beilstein for natural sciences and\nJOSS for open source.

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Open Journal Systems

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And there is the Open Journal Systems (OJS), another\neditor manager, one that has been around for some time now. We use OJS for the\nCDK News newsletter.\nBig news this week was that OJS has been selected\nas infrastructure to underping the Open Research Europe publishing platform,\nsomething running on F1000Research, bought up up Taylor&Francis in 2020.

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I need to catch up with where the OJS is technically. Do they support Markdown\nsubmissions? Do they export JATS? Do they support CiTO annotations? But this needs\neditors and journals to expect these things. Unfortunately, many journals have\na limited expectation of digitial knowledge dissemination, and it’s still\nPDF galore.

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Better Publishing

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This brings me to the following: should the Dutch universities continue to fund\nthe publisher business, stakeholder profit, or should we invest in open infrastructure\nto benefit our own core business: research and education. I think you understand\nwhat my position is on this. The current big deals we have with the big\npublishers are not actually really in our benefit and with the upcoming defunding\nwe have to use every euro carefully. And then I prefer to fund a young researcher\ninstead of publisher stakeholders.

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I hope you are willing the read the following petition to the Dutch negotiators\nto very carefully consider what their priorities are and who they represent.\nYou can sign anonymously (if you fear backslash) and you can just read the details\nbehind this well-written petition: there are many references at the bottom to\nsupport the statements I make here, and more.

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But I really, really hope you wish a better future for knowledge dissemination.\nJust think of your next Reviewer 2, that you pay the publisher to have Reviewer 2\nscold at you, or the time spent on reference formatting, just because the publisher\nprefers profit over usability.

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Join and sign!

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References

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Willighagen, E. (2020). Adoption of the Citation Typing Ontology by the Journal of Cheminformatics. Journal of Cheminformatics, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-020-00448-1 CrossRef Scholia
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Willighagen, E. (2021). Conflict of Interest. Or why I am stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cheminformatics. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4926030 CrossRef Scholia
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Willighagen, E., Jeliazkova, N., & Guha, R. (2019). Journal of Cheminformatics, ORCID, and GitHub. Journal of Cheminformatics, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-019-0365-4 CrossRef Scholia
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