Redefining scientific publishing

Conference item : Presentation

Reimagining scholarly publishing to promote credible and trustworthy research (Brian Nosek)
The purpose of scholarly publishing is to facilitate the communication and interrogation of evidence and claims to advance knowledge production. The business of scholarly publishing interferes with this purpose. Research is inhibited by a scholarly publishing system that [1] is slow, incomplete, opaque, and static, [2] treats the paper as the only meaningful scholarly output, [3] offers dysfunctional, simplistic rewards based on publication and journal status, and [4] is calcified in legacy, commercial business models and infrastructure. The Lifecycle Journal is an alternative approach to scholarly publishing intended to address these weaknesses and align the practice of scholarly publishing with its purpose.

An introduction to Octopus.ac (Alex Freeman)
Octopus.ac is a new publishing platform that is designed to reset the incentive system inacademia, in order to ensure that best research practices are rewarded, ensuring that knowledge is easily shared and built on. Funded by UKRI, it is free to publish to and free to read, with features to allow the scholarly community to identify and flag up concerns as well as good work.

Improving Reproducibility of Research Articles: the TIER2 Editorial Reference Handbook (Allyson Lister)
The Editorial Reference Handbook (https://publishers.fairassist.org/) was co-developed by academics and professionals in publishing organisations and defines a minimal set of 12 consensus checks fundamental to FAIRness and reproducibility, and usable across all digital objects (e.g. datasets, code, material) in a publication. The Handbook also places these checks onto an ideal internal manuscript submission workflow.

Authors: Nosek, B; Freeman, A; Lister, A

• Publisher: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
• Place of publication: Oxford
• Publication date: 2025-03-07
• Event title: Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship 2025
• Event location: Online - Virtual conference
• Event website: https://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
• Event start date: 2025-03-03
• Event end date: 2025-03-13
• Language: English
• Keywords: OxFOS; scientific publishing
• Subjects: Research
• Subtype: Presentation