Serving Innovation in Scholarly Communication with the Open Platform “Digital Peer Publishing"

The internet causes a continuous emergence of novel forms of scholarly communication and collaboration. Electronic publishing provides a means for representing eventual outcomes of these processes, i.e. all types of content such as papers and advanced forms of media. Electronic journals are often chosen as an adequate publishing format because they simultaneously deliver content in a well-known manner but, at the same time, allow extending traditional publishing with innovative features. The initiative Digital Peer Publishing (DiPP) provides technological, organizational and legal frameworks and tools that help to incubate and proliferate such innovative publishing projects. The hosting platform reflects principles of a Service Oriented Architecture. It combines, via Web Services, already established components such as an OAI repository (Fedora) and a Web Content Management System (Plone) with customized workflows for document processing, conversion and distribution. As an open platform it is capable of integrating external tools and services or acts itself as a service provider. It is therefore disposed for supplementing research infrastructures with electronic publishing

Charakteristiken einer netzgestützten wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation und ihre Umsetzung in Infrastruktur und Publikationsformen

Neue Formen der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation basieren auf Fortschritten in den Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien. Das dadurch mögliche kollaborative wissenschaftliche Arbeiten liefert Ergebnisse, die in vielfältigen Formaten, als Text, Simulationsdaten oder multimediale Elemente vorliegen. Daraus ergeben sich besondere Anforderungen an Publikations- und Kommunikatonsinfrastrukturen, wie Interoperabilität, Repräsentation, Verteilung und Archivierung derartiger komplexer digitaler Objekte. Mit der Initiative Digital Peer Publishing existiert eine Infrastruktur für das Publizieren in elektronischen Zeitschriften. Dieses Publikationsformat erlaubt neben einem schnellen Wissenstransfer eine umfassende Repräsentation wissenschaftlicher Ergebnisse. Das Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting als Teil dieser Initiative zeigt am Beispiel des elektronischen Publikationsprozesses den Stand der Wissensvernetzung in seiner Community, sowie aktuelle Entwicklungen um die Erweiterung innovativer Funktionen

plosOpenRExploring FP7 funded PLOS publications

This case study presents possible fields of applications for alternative science measures on grant-supported research publications. The study is basedon plosOpenR, a set of functions for the statistical computing environment R.plosOpenR facilitates access to the application programming interfaces (API) provided by Open Acces publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) and OpenAIRE, an Open Access infrastructure for European funded research. These functions can be furthermore used to visually explore PLOS-Article Level metrics, a collection of alternative science impact measure. 1,166 publications acknowledging funding within the Seventh Framework Programme of the EU are reported. Distributed over 624 projects, alternative metrics based on this sample and corresponding collaboration networks are presented. Findings reveal the potential of reusing data, that are made openly and automatically available by publishers, funders and repository community