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Fit for the Future:Technology and the changing world of research publishing

Leon Heward MillsGlobal Publishing Director, JournalsTaylor & Francis Group

Factors driving change in journal publishing 2018-2022

1. Digital technology

2. Networks and sharing

3. Research integrity, trust and openness

4. Research outputs 2018

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Digital Technology

After Hargroves & Smith, The Natural Advantage of Nations, Routledge 2006

Waves of innovation

A historical overview shows how technological advancement is accelerating

2018


Waves of innovation


2018


Artificial

Intelligence (AI)

Waves of innovation


From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 to Web 4.0

Credit: Nova Spivack, Radar Networkshttp://novaspivack.typepad.com/ http://www.mindingtheplanet

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Digital workflow and new players

8https://101innovations.wordpress.com/

Digital technology facilitates discoverability & visibility

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Funder Registry

Submit. Review. Accept

Submitted manuscript

Published Content

AI technologies, researchand analytics

• Natural Language Processing– machines interpreting “normal” real time speech

• Translation Technologies

• Machine Learning & data mining

• Semantic Enrichment and Contextualization– reviewing other data sets to add additional information, links and

understanding data based on appropriate context within the source material

• Big Data Analytics

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Future possibilities with AI tools

• Reviewer identification

• Research trends

• Connect researchers

• Identify plagiarism and data fabrication

• Text scans to identify errors in results, statistics etc

• Full machine peer review?!

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Blockchain technology

• Decentralized research cycle, and dissemination, fully integrated on same chain, ‘living document’ with all collaborative research, protocols, data, ideas etc – aid to reproducibility

• Could aid: peer review

digital rights management

sharing

accurate usage counts

new metrics and credits

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Networks & The Sharing Economy

Networks driving quality impact and engagement

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Published Content

Citing ContentCited Content AuthorsAuthors

Authors Readers

Editor

Reviewers

RelatedContent

Authors

Editorial Board

Employer

Research Ministry

Funder

Co-Publisher Societies and Associations

Networks driving quality impact and engagement

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Published Content

Citing ContentCited Content AuthorsAuthors

Authors Readers

Editor

Reviewers

RelatedContent

Authors

Editorial Board

Employer

Research Ministry

Funder

Co-Publisher Societies and Associations

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Sharing and Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs)

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http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/sharing-your-work/

Public

Article version Solution (how) Outcome (for who)

Gold OA• CC-BY post-embargo

AM• CC-BY VOR

• License ref Crossref Metadata API

Access for any user

Green OA / non-subscription articles• Post-embargo AM• Pre-print

• Article tagging:

DOI/JAV tagsPDF XMP

• Policy identifiersCrossref MetadataAPI (URIs)

Access for any user

Subscription articles• Pre-embargo AM• Subscription VOR

• EntitlementAPI

• STM RA21(beyond IP)

Access for subscribed user (includingremote access)No access forunsubscribed user

Private

OA & subscriptionarticles• Any article version

• Article tagging:DOI/JAV tagsPDF XMP

• Crossref DUL

Access for any user

Publishers are working with SCNs

Author shares

Researcher reads

Research Output Trends

Global % of research outputTop countries by WoS Documents

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Research is a collaborative, networked effort.

Our strategy at Taylor & Francis is to:

• Create and strengthen rewarding connections between people, knowledge and organisations

• Empower and assist world class research

• Promote access and readership

We will create services and products based on innovative technology to amplify these network effects

Connections within and betweennetworks to drive impact