Amy Brand

Beyond authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit

As the number of authors on scientific publications increases, ordered lists of author names are proving inadequate for the purposes of attribution and credit. A multi‐stakeholder group has produced a contributor role taxonomy for use in scientific publications. Identifying specific contributions to published research will lead to appropriate credit, fewer author disputes, and fewer disincentives to collaboration and the sharing of data and code.

Beyond Mandate and Repository, Toward Sustainable Faculty Self-Archiving

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CrossRef and the research experience

CrossRef is an independent membership association for building collaborative publishing technologies. Its mission is to provide services that enable the scholar to reach source material easily; it focuses on methods that are best achieved through collective agreement among publishers. The CrossRef network now covers millions of journal articles and other content items from hundreds of publishers. This article looks at CrossRefs significance for the online research experience, four years after the launch of the CrossRef initiative.

Faculty appointments and the record of scholarship.

Academic review committees would benefit from more details about the contributions made by individual researchers to papers with multiple authors, and also from more information about other types of scholarly communication.

CrossRef: beyond journal reference linking

The CrossRef network today covers millions of journal articles and other scholarly content from several hundred academic publishers and societies. CrossRef launched in early 2000 as a co-operative venture among publishers to support persistent, industry-wide citation linking in journals using the Digital Object Identifier, or DOI. In five-plus years of operation, CrossRef has grown steadily in many dimensions, including the number of voting members and participating publishers; the number of journals covered; the types of content to which DOIs are assigned; coverage of scholarly and professional disciplines; usage by the research community; and overall technical functionality. This article briefly surveys recent CrossRef developments, focusing on functional enhancements to the CrossRef system.

What is Publishing? (1)

What do we mean by publishing in today’s world? What should be the goals of scholarly publishing? What are the ideals to which scholarly publishing should aspire? What roles might scholarly publishers have in the future? What scenarios exist where publishers continue to play a vital role but information moves more freely? What impact might these reforms have on the health of publishers? Scholarly societies? Science research? Why?

Report from the "What is Publishing?" (1) Workgroup

The mechanisms used for scholarly publishing have remained largely unchanged over time, even as we’ve moved from a print-based world to a digital world. The scholarly communication ecosystem, however, is now undergoing a period of rapid transformation, including the introduction of new actors, new services, and increased pressure to improve the means of scholarly communication in order to meet the growing expectations of an information-rich world. Where to begin? The first question is to ask how scholarly publishing can provide the greatest benefit to global society in a sustainable way. Our two-day conversation about this question led us to the conclusion that the “black box,” monolithic model of scholarly publishing no longer serves most researchers. The most sustainable approach that best responds to the needs of authors and researchers today, and that may also pose the least amount of risk in completely disrupting the system, is disaggregated services—unbundling the products and services that publishers currently provide and letting market forces drive the development of, and demand for, a new and improved a la carte world of knowledge artifacts and knowledge management tools. OSI2016 Workshop Question What do we mean by publishing in today’s world? What should be the goals of scholarly publishing? What are the ideals to which scholarly publishing should aspire? What roles might scholarly publishers have in the future? What scenarios exist where publishers continue to play a vital role but information moves more freely? What impact might these reforms have on the health of publishers? Scholarly societies? Science research? Why?