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Martin Fenner
Peter Binfield: Scientific Publishing in 5-10 years
1. Do current publishers exist? 2. Does the journal exist as a package? 3. Does the article exist? 4. What business models dominate? 5. What new technical features do we seriously expect? 6. What new modes of scholarly communication may gain wide acceptance? - Martin Fenner
Over 0-5 years probably much the same as it is now - but 5-10 years a much more itneresting timeframe - Cameron Neylon
Do we need articles when people just want to look at the data? - Kubke
3D in PDFs has become available only recently. - Martin Fenner
who is actually doing the science - is it still professional scientsits or is it much more diverse - Cameron Neylon
Other questions: What money exists in 5-10 years? Who is doing the actual work of publishing? What are the customers? - Martin Fenner
What will happen to society journals in 5-10 years? These journals bring in a substantial amount of revenue to the societies. - Martin Fenner
Average annual price increase of journals: 5-10%. - Martin Fenner
40-45% of revenue currently comes from U.S. academic institutions. - Martin Fenner
Anyone else having trouble getting audio from Cameron's livecast? (Will comment at livestream.com from now on). - Michael Nielsen
Who is paying for the pay-per-article? - Martin Fenner
"Even at 99 cents an article, there will still only be an X number of buyers" translation - lower revenues for publisher to go the route of iTunes - Jason Hoyt
Most people think that the scientific article will be around in 5-10 years. - Martin Fenner
NLM-DTD is mentioned as a technical standard: http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/ - Martin Fenner
Article-level metrics will accelerate the death of the journal. - Martin Fenner
The role of the librarian will change. More about information, less about journal subscriptions. - Martin Fenner
Is an article the smallest unit of scientific output? - Martin Fenner
Example of a publishing tool that uses NLM-DTD: Lemon XML http://network.nature.com/people... - Martin Fenner
Current cost of article semantic markup: $10000. - Martin Fenner
Problems with permanent record for articles containing multimedia. - Martin Fenner
Extended discussion about problems with archiving of articles in digital form. - Martin Fenner
We will have to discard data, as the carbon footprint of the storage solutions will get too high. - Martin Fenner
Publishers might want to look at Business Week for ideas. Appears to be working as a model to move from print to online. Effective at engaging the community in the content. Research is the original peer review, it shouldn't be that hard to move to a blog and social media model. Why not have all science become collaborative? Just need to define the right rules that fit the community. - Leonard Kish
Medpedia just released functionality to collaborate on documents. Wonder where that's going? - Leonard Kish
Societies are really communities first. I would think they would have an easier transition to online media and extending their communities online. - Leonard Kish