Publishing Group
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There will be two "synthetic biology" publishing group meetings this week. Attend one or both, as you like.
Each meeting will begin at 12:10p at 68-577 (5th floor tea room) and move to a nearby room.
Each meeting will end at 12:50p.
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
- Julie Norville
- Sri Kosuri
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.