Smaller, Better, Faster: Atomizing Research Communication with Micropublications

Scientific progress used to be defined by what was published. Today, how we publish has become almost as important to the progress of science. It affects who can read your work, who can afford to publish in which venues, how the content can be used, reused, and built upon, and even how scientific studies are structured and executed. Micropublishing is an innovation in publishing workflows that seeks to make publishing more reflective of how science actually progresses in real time. A micropublication is a single result, published rapidly in a format designed for reuse and integration with results emerging from other groups. While open, rapid, atomized communication solves many of the systemic challenges of scientific publishing (reproducibility, access and equity, efficiency, to name a few), it presents acute opportunity costs for individual researchers that need to advance their career and win grants. The flashpub.io team is building micropublishing workflows that focus on collaborative research data storytelling, integration with novel funding mechanisms, and effective incentive structures that empower researchers to advance their careers by actively leading their peers with rapid publications to share new results early and often. In this seminar learn more about how flashpub.io approaches these challenges and is helping scientist return to a purer, more rigorous and collaborative style of publishing scientific discoveries. Moderator: James A. Glazier, PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington To learn more see: https://www.flashpub.io/ For the slides for this video see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wbRPNFXgUWh9eiRSniiehcDuTB_9A8uJ/ If you found this video useful, please check out our other videos on computational modeling, infection and immunology: https://tinyurl.com/GLIMPRINTVideos Please consider joining our IMAG/MSM WG on Multiscale Modeling and Viral Pandemics: https://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/content/msm-viral-pandemics-meetings Please also consider joining the Global Alliance for Immune Prediction and Intervention: http://glimprint.org/