Publishing Group
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There's been some rolling discussion of how research publishing should work (i.e., might be improved), especially as it relates to Synthetic Biology.
I'd like to propose a BYO working lunch on Thursday October 6 from noon to 1:30p to discuss current thoughts.
If this date/time don't work, please suggest another date time (before October 10).
Possible Dates:
This needs to be coordinated with journal club.
- October 3rd (Mon) from noon to 1:30pm
- October 4th (Tues) from noon to 1:30pm
- Jason Kelly
- Barry Canton
- Reshma Shetty
- Austin Che
- Samantha Sutton but would prefer Monday instead.
- Caitlin
- October 5th (Weds) from 1-2:30pm?
- (Ty's BATS talk 12-1)
- October 6th (Thurs) from noon to 1:30pm
- Reshma Shetty
- Austin Che
- Drew (previously confirmed for Oct 6)
- Natalie (previously confirmed for Oct 6)
- Pam Silver (previously confirmed for Oct 6)
- Samantha (previously confirmed for Oct 6)
- Caitlin (previously confirmed for Oct 6)
- (October 7th (Fri) is theory lunch Drew emailed about @ Harvard @ noon, in case people were planning on going to that.)
- journal club to follow?
Please add your name to the list if you will attend.
Please add your ideas/questions below that you would like to discuss.
Attending:
- Drew
- BC - can't make it before 1pm
- Reshma
- Natalie
- Austin Che
- Jason - can't make it until >2:30.
- Pam Silver
- Samantha
- Caitlin
Things to discuss:
- Do we need a Synthetic Biology specific journal?
- Does the peer review process, as practiced work?
- Is peer review needed for engineering research articles?
- What features would we like for our papers? Reader comments? Reader Wiki?
- How should the structure of a paper be changed to reflect things like, well, the Internets?
- What existing journals are the most appropriate/receptive venues for publication of SB work?
- How is publishing on SB topics different from any other field?
- What are the other (if any) alternate publishing models already out there?
- Non-synthetic biology improvement:Author IDs or URIs or something. Noticed this while trying to set up myNCBI searches for people with more common names, what a pain. I'm changing my name to xyuitk.
- Can we ensure that publishing and access to publications is equally open to all institutions regardless of rank?
- <your question/idea>
Relevant material:
- Hal Abelson and John Wilbanks gave interesting talks on Open Networks and Open Society: The Relationship between Freedom, Law, and Technology.