The document discusses the problems with the current scholarly publishing system and proposes a new open scholarly infrastructure model. Some key issues mentioned include the high costs of publishing, lack of access to data and code, unreliability of prestigious journals, and outdated modes of accessing information. The proposed new model would make scholarly resources like data, code, and publications dynamically versioned and openly accessible at a much lower cost. It would allow for improved search, text-mining and quality control through diverse post-publication review methods.

1. BjörnBrembs
UniversitätRegensburg
http://brembs.net-@brembs
The biggest threat to
science today

2. Breitbart, Dec. 2016: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10/28/hear-scientist-talk-peer-review-reach-browning

3. Wikipedia: Das Politdrama „Schlageter“ wurde am 20. April 1933, dem Geburtstag Adolf Hitlers, im Staatstheater am
Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin in Anwesenheit von Hitler und hochrangigen Vertretern der NSDAP, der Wehrmacht und aus
Kunst und Literatur uraufgeführt. Der „Völkische Beobachter“ nannte das Stück »das erste Drama der deutschen
Revolution«. Das Stück wurde zu einem großen Erfolg für den Autor, auch in finanzieller Hinsicht.
Wenn ich Kultur hoere …
entsichere ich meine
Browning

11. Freedman LP, Cockburn IM, Simcoe TS (2015) http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002165
61%
(n=100)
Open Science Collaboration

12. 10.1038/s41562-018-0399-z
Successful:
13/21: 62%

13. 10.1126/science.aaf0918
Successful:
11/18: 61%

14. Papers Experiments Effects All outcomes
Total number 23 50 158 188
“combining positive and null effects, the
success rate was 46% (51/112)“

15. How reliable is the research in our
most prestigious journals?

16. 10.1107/S0907444907033847

17. Brembs, B., Button, K., & Munafò, M. (2013). Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291

19. DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
And 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008984
-omics studies

20. “High-Impact” journals attract the
most unreliable research

21. The disaster that is scholarly
information infrastructure

22. More than 10.000€ for one article

23. More than 10.000€ for one article

24. Online submission US$ 21.70
DOI US$ 1.94
Plagiarism detection US$ 0.95
Fundref US$ 0.31
Bibliographic reference normalization US$ 25.00
Production of XML, PDFWeb, PDF for Print and EPUB US$ 100.00
indexing, online publication and interoperability US$ 66.45
Costs per article US$ 216.35

25. 10.12688/f1000research.27468.2

30. Scientists produce text, data and code

31. • Obsolete modes of access
• Journal prestige correlates with unreliability
• No scientific impact analysis
• Suboptimal peer-review
• Massive transparency issues
• No effective sort, filter and discover solution
• No functional hyperlinks
• Static data visualizations
• No content mining
• No social component
• No global search
• Hardly any user statistics
• etc.
…it’s like the internet in 1995!

32. Report on Integration of Data and Publications, ODE Report 2011
http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=ODE+Report+on+Integration+of+Data+and+Publications

36. UNIVAC (A-2) 1953: sharing and re-using software/code

40. We have installed the free version of GitLab in which Pull Mirroring with GitHub is not included as a functionality.

41. 216.35
5000
SERVICE CONTENT
per
article
cost
[US$]
Potential
for
reform:
US$
9.56
billion
p.a.
tomorrow today
~3 billion / year
~2 billion / year

42. 216.35
5000
SERVICE CONTENT
per
article
cost
[US$]
Potential
for
reform:
US$
9.56
billion
p.a.
tomorrow today
• Substitutable Services (-> competition!)
• No author facing costs
• Journal functionalities can be copied
• Cost-neutral solutions for data/code
• No individual mandates necessary
• No journals, no need to judge journal quality
• …
• …
• …
• …
• …
• …
• Side effect: permanent, legal, public access
A sustainable scholarly infrastructure:

45. • Dynamic, version controlled
• Can be searched and text-
mined
• Near-immediate publication
• Different models for post-
publication review exist
• Contributorship in diverse
roles
• Open to everyone
Data
Code
Preregistration
DMP
Interpretations
Materials
Review/Quality
control

46. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uG1mcOEkLFFaJm9PDvink_Tabjzsb4aIiNf4pw7LJOg/edit?usp=sharing