I follow the work of the ink & switch folks... they have a lot of interesting ideas around academic research management and academic publishing.
I have a day job, but spend a lot of thought about ways to improve academic/technical publishing in the modern era. There are a lot problems with our current academic publishing model: a lot of pay-walled articles / limited public access to research, many articles have no/limited access to the raw data or analytical code, articles don't make use of modern technology to enhance communication (interactive plots, animations, CAD files, video, etc.).
Top level academic journals are trying to raise the bar on research publication standards (partially to avoid the embarrassment of publishing fraudulent research) but they are all stuck not want to kill the golden goose. Academic publishing is a multi-billion dollar affair and making research open, etc. would damage their revenue model.
We need a GitHub for Science... not in the sense of Microsoft owning a publishing platform but in the sense of what GitHub provides for computer science; a platform for public collaboration on code and computer science ideas. We need a federated, open platform for managing experiments and data (i.e. an electronic lab notebook) and communicating research to the public (via code, animations, plots, written text in Typst/LaTeX/Markdown, video, audio, presentations, etc. Ideally this platform would also have an associated discussion forum for discussion and feedback on research.
I have a day job, but spend a lot of thought about ways to improve academic/technical publishing in the modern era. There are a lot problems with our current academic publishing model: a lot of pay-walled articles / limited public access to research, many articles have no/limited access to the raw data or analytical code, articles don't make use of modern technology to enhance communication (interactive plots, animations, CAD files, video, etc.).
Top level academic journals are trying to raise the bar on research publication standards (partially to avoid the embarrassment of publishing fraudulent research) but they are all stuck not want to kill the golden goose. Academic publishing is a multi-billion dollar affair and making research open, etc. would damage their revenue model.
We need a GitHub for Science... not in the sense of Microsoft owning a publishing platform but in the sense of what GitHub provides for computer science; a platform for public collaboration on code and computer science ideas. We need a federated, open platform for managing experiments and data (i.e. an electronic lab notebook) and communicating research to the public (via code, animations, plots, written text in Typst/LaTeX/Markdown, video, audio, presentations, etc. Ideally this platform would also have an associated discussion forum for discussion and feedback on research.