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New forms of scholarly communication. Hal R. Varian UC Berkeley http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal. Eprints. Eprints Benefits fast, inexpensive, inclusive Drawbacks peer review, version control, permanence Models (function and cost) centralized (LANL) decentralized (CS reports)
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New forms of scholarly communication Hal R. Varian UC Berkeley http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal
Eprints • Eprints • Benefits • fast, inexpensive, inclusive • Drawbacks • peer review, version control, permanence • Models (function and cost) • centralized (LANL) • decentralized (CS reports) • moderated (SSRN)
Peer review • Publication as costly signal of quality • redundant in some areas (physics?) • too many journals reduce value of signal • difficulty with monographs • Changing costs • when publication was expensive, filter ex ante • when publication is cheap, filter ex post
Ex post review • Peer review • don’t have to be 0-1 • implict rating: hits • explicit rating: 0-5 • improve quality of article • suggestions -- need version control • comments -- need threading system
Forms of rating • Anonymous • mediated v non-mediated • open to all v restricted • Signed • endorsements • Recommender systems • Grouplens • gaming the system?
Dimensions of rating • Is this interesting? • May be able to tell easily • Patterns of reading articles • Is this correct? • Usually requires more effort • Mathematicians and philosophers
Form of articles? • Abstract (1 paragraph) • “5 page version” • article • appendix
Possible model • Experts judge interest based on 5-page • Readers judge correctness • Prizes as incentive • “best of” collections in print or CD • Forms • threaded, cross linked, notification system, recommender system
Interlib project • Berkeley, Stanford, UCSB • Berkeley • “distributed, continuous, self-publishing” • tools • collaboration using MVD • electronic research notebook • content analysis • images, text
Multivalent documents • Document is many layers • languages • scanned bits + OCR text • commentary • Challenges • interface, manipulation, document types
Research notebook • “Palm pilot” device • networked repository • search, creation and annotation of documents from large collections • Interface for searching and visualizing large collections of documents
Other topics • Image search and analysis • Mathematical documents • Automatic categorization • Access control and rights management • Business models • GIS • Testbed: environmental data