If you don't have a connection, I could put you in touch with someone at PLoS ONE -- see, e.g., http://everyone.plos.org/2009/07/22/plos-journa... -- they are doing some interesting things along the "re-engineering scientific communication" lines.
bgood
· 4 months ago
Thanks for the offer Bill, I may take you up on it at some point. For now, I'm more interested in smaller, perhaps more revolutionary initiatives (with clear financial models). While PloS is doing some great things in general, it still seems to me that they are operating based on what Wilbanks refers to as "document mentality". If you know anyone that really seems to understand and is working to realize the following bit of advice from his post, please let me know: "If you want to make the article of the future, start with integration and work backwards. Don't start with the article and work forward, because you'll be trapped in document mentality instead of the network mentality."
Pedro Beltrao
· 4 months ago
Maybe you should not put publishers out of the picture all together. There might be some of them that are willing to create the team that has sort the freedom to think outside of the document mentality.
bgood
· 4 months ago
You are probably right. I'm sure they are all trying to figure this out internally and many of them have very capable people working for them. I suppose the other reason for my statement is that I am more interested in being part of something small and totally new right now than I am in joining a larger organization - though it sure would be nice to have access to some of the resources of a company that already has revenue!
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For now, I'm more interested in smaller, perhaps more revolutionary initiatives (with clear financial models). While PloS is doing some great things in general, it still seems to me that they are operating based on what Wilbanks refers to as "document mentality". If you know anyone that really seems to understand and is working to realize the following bit of advice from his post, please let me know:
"If you want to make the article of the future, start with integration and work backwards. Don't start with the article and work forward, because you'll be trapped in document mentality instead of the network mentality."
internally and many of them have very capable people working for them. I
suppose the other reason for my statement is that I am more interested in
being part of something small and totally new right now than I am in joining
a larger organization - though it sure would be nice to have access to some
of the resources of a company that already has revenue!