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Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science
Version 1
: Received: 2 October 2019 / Approved: 6 October 2019 / Online: 6 October 2019 (04:20:12 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 5 December 2019 / Approved: 6 December 2019 / Online: 6 December 2019 (04:16:26 CET)
Version 3 : Received: 13 February 2020 / Approved: 16 February 2020 / Online: 16 February 2020 (14:30:09 CET)
Version 4 : Received: 1 June 2020 / Approved: 3 June 2020 / Online: 3 June 2020 (05:37:03 CEST)
Version 5 : Received: 18 August 2020 / Approved: 20 August 2020 / Online: 20 August 2020 (09:48:21 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 5 December 2019 / Approved: 6 December 2019 / Online: 6 December 2019 (04:16:26 CET)
Version 3 : Received: 13 February 2020 / Approved: 16 February 2020 / Online: 16 February 2020 (14:30:09 CET)
Version 4 : Received: 1 June 2020 / Approved: 3 June 2020 / Online: 3 June 2020 (05:37:03 CEST)
Version 5 : Received: 18 August 2020 / Approved: 20 August 2020 / Online: 20 August 2020 (09:48:21 CEST)
A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.
Pagliaro, M. Publishing Scientific Articles in the Digital Era. Open Science Journal 2020, 5, doi:10.23954/osj.v5i3.2617. Pagliaro, M. Publishing Scientific Articles in the Digital Era. Open Science Journal 2020, 5, doi:10.23954/osj.v5i3.2617.
Abstract
After showing how the advent of the internet, in an almost opposite fashion to what happened to newspaper publishing, has led to further flourishing of the $25 billion scholarly publishing industry, I show how the unexpected expansion of preprints to all scientific disciplines beyond physics, mathematics and computer science is actually reshaping scientific communication at large and then, inevitably, scientific publishing. I thus provide arguments substantiating my viewpoint on why and how expanding the education of today’s students and young researchers to include modern scholarly communication will be instrumental for the transition to open science.
Keywords
scientific publishing; scientific journals; scholarly publishing; open science
Subject
Social Sciences, Library and Information Sciences
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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