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
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