Research, Informatics, and the Published Record

Life, The Universe, and Everything

Plan for the – researchers and the – informatics and the – digitising for – where shall we go? Discussion

Oldenburg (1665) – the four functions of publication dissemination registration certification archiving (the “Minutes of Science”)

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IMPACT FACTOR READERSHIP REPUTATION SPEED OF PUBLICATION Rowlands et al. (2004) ciber Report. Why publish where you do? EDITORIAL BOARD

Author Survey Rowlands et al. (2004) ciber Report.

Impact Factor! e-publication! Rowlands et al. (2004) ciber Report.

Knapp (2008) in The New Taxonomy. Edited by Q. Wheeler. CRC Press

Published by AAAS Renear & Palmer (2009) Science 325:

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“Scientists have always strived to avoid unnecessary reading.” (Renear & Palmer 2009)

How to avoid reading.. Pick ten, fifteen or so journals I have access to and which have a reasonable chance of publishing something important in my field and read their tables of contents religiously Scan for any citation alerts: if they cite me, it must be relevant! Go through stored PubMed keyword searches (even though PubMed is 4 weeks behind publication date) Read F1000 alerts Subscribe to 3-4 mailing lists on which some helpful person posts press-releases in close enough fields Screen citeUlike recommendations and FriendFeed subscriptions or Tweets for interesting papers Subscribe to science news wires Listen to science podcasts Björn Brembs – 9 Nov 2011

How to keep track (or not..) “I don’t really follow the literature anymore. If there’s something really important, it’ll find its way to me.” Björn Brembs – 9 Nov 2011

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