Thomas IngrahamPublishing Editor, F1000Research

thomas.ingraham@f1000.com

Publishing Agricultural Research A Different Approach

PUBLISHING AGRICULTURAL RESEARCHThe point of publishing agricultural research:

Main Variables Access Time Quality

Traditional system Paywalls/Open Slow Irreproducibility

Article only Peer review?

What is needed Open Quick Reproducible Diverse Peer review

known

Presentations

Articles(diverse) Posters

ReviewsDataCode

IMPROVING ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE

+ 9-30%

REDUCING PUBLISHING TIMES

REDUCING PUBLISHING TIMES

Indexers

REDUCING PUBLISHING TIMES

80 28

7 66

+ 101 days of being visible, shareable & citable

+ 35 days of knowing quality of research

Rejection

1 1

1 1Days inaccessible

Days accessible

Virulent infection casedoubling time

Ag JournalPublished

Published 2 reviews

Next Journal

Final Decision

Key

Plant Biology, Ecology & Environmental Science

ENSURING QUALITY

- Improved reproducibility by including open data and code

- Open signed peer review: allows assessment and improves reviews

- Versioning (dynamic citations)

- http://f1000research.com/articles/3-298/v2

- F1000 Recommendations- http://

f1000research.com/articles/2-235/v1

- Technical and cultural barriers to Open Knowledge

- OKAD a place to openly publish and share the outcomes of OK work

- Scope: All agricultural Open Access, Open Data, Open Source & Open Educational initiatives

- Articles (diverse), posters and slides (and soon documents) in line with F1000Research model

- Median time to 2 reviews: 35 days

OPEN KNOWLEDGE IN AGRICULTURE

http://f1000research.com/channels/okad

FINDING AGRICULTURAL CONTENT ON F1000RESEARCH

http://f1000research.com/channels/okad http://f1000research.com/subjects/399