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5 What Is Publishing in the Future?
Pages 48-55

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... The presentations in this session of the symposium identified some of the social processes, specific pilot projects, and the challenges and opportunities that may provide the basis for future "publishing processes," which ultimately may be more holistically integrated into the "knowledge creation process." 48
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... Even closer to the scientific publishing world is a site called Merlot, which collects teaching resources. Merlot provides for a peer-review process before a publication is included in the collection, but even after material is included, members can add comments.
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... Journal Web sites could publish reviewer comments. The reviewers might be more thorough if they knew their comments were going to be published, even without their names attached.
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... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Reports Server6 was a pioneer in bringing together and making available a collection of 2This section is based on the presentation by Richard Luce, research library director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 3For additional information on the e-Print arXiv, see http://www.arXiv.org/.
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... 8For additional information on MIT's OpenCourseWare project, see http:// ocw.mit.edu/index.html. 9For additional information on the DSpace Federation, see http://www.dspace.org/.
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From page 53...
... They include quality publications and a publication process with integrity; open, extensible indexes of publications; automatic extraction of relevant selections from publications; automatic compilation of publication fragments; static and dynamic links among publications, publication fragments, and primary data; data mining across multiple publications; automatic linking of publications to visualization tools; integration into the semantic web; and hundreds of things no one has thought of yet. OpenCourseWare and DSpace are only two examples of the changing role of universities in using the new technological capabilities to reinforce their public missions and promote the progress of science.
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From page 54...
... The questions about archival policy, editorial policy, and open access all change completely if one moves to a model of continuous improvement of the materials, or continuous publication, where all peers have an opportunity to adjust the prominence of newly developed pieces. In that model, the world changes completely.
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From page 55...
... In any event, of deep concern to the government science agencies and to public institutional repositories is being able to have access to material created with public monies, and to make such information publicly available.
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