[OWW-Discuss] The Death of the Scientific Paper

[John Cumbers]

I had not read this before..
best,
John


*The Death of the Scientific
Paper*<http://papers.gersteinlab.org/e-print/paperdeath/preprint.pdf>Seringhaus
M, Gerstein M (2006). The Scientist. 20(9): 25.
http://www.seringhaus.net/writing.html

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Forget "publish or perish." Academic publishing
must diversify or die.

Just as PubMed indexes journal abstracts in a
structured fashion, we propose cataloging a broad range
of material, which would enable users to run PubMedlike
queries over abstracts, full text, data sets, lay
summaries, and presentations, all through a single
porta


While this highlights the importance of nontraditional
communication in science, it is also regrettable: After
all, journal articles are the main output for which
scientists earn recognition, and producing them
commands a huge share of our efforts. Meanwhile,
virtually no credit is afforded to producing quality highlevel
summaries or to online data deposition.
Journals must produce more than just papers. Editors
should demand online deposit of data as a requirement
for publication, and enforce a unified nomenclature for
biology. In addition to the traditional manuscript,
The Scientist : The Death of the Scientific Paper Page 2 of 4
http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/9/1/25/1/ 9/4/2006
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Michael Seringhaus was previously mentioned on oww..  by Sri :Lyse
Lyse Baby<http://www.seringhaus.net/lyse.html>- An awesome remake of
Ice, Ice Baby by Michael Seringhaus




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