Dynamic publication formats and collaborative authoring

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2014
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Cham : Springer
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While Online Publishing has replaced most traditional printed journals in less than twenty years, today’s Online Publication Formats are still closely bound to the medium of paper. Collaboration is mostly hidden from the readership, and ‘final’ versions of papers are stored in ‘publisher PDF’ files mimicking print. Meanwhile new media formats originating from the web itself bring us new modes of transparent collaboration, feedback, continued refinement, and reusability of (scholarly) works: Wikis, Blogs and Code Repositories, to name a few. This chapter characterizes the potentials of Dynamic Publication Formats and analyzes necessary prerequisites. Selected tools specific to the aims, stages, and functions of Scholarly Publishing are presented. Furthermore, this chapter points out early examples of usage and further development from the field. In doing so, Dynamic Publication Formats are described as (a) a ‘parallel universe’ based on the commodification of (scholarly) media, and (b) as a much needed complement, slowly recognized and incrementally integrated into more efficient and dynamic workflows of production, improvement, and dissemination of scholarly knowledge in general.

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Scientific Result, Scholarly Publication, Individual Author, Status Update, Scientific Misconduct
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Heller, L., The, R., & Bartling, S. (2014). Dynamic publication formats and collaborative authoring (S. Bartling & S. Friesike, eds.). Cham : Springer. https://doi.org//10.1007/978-3-319-00026-8_13
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CC BY 4.0 Unported