10.6084/m9.figshare.91541.v1 Don Cooper Don Cooper A call for disruptive innovation in science publishing with a new open data-sharing platform for the life sciences figshare 2012 open data open data open science open science Open data open data-share platform science publishing science policy Bioinformatics Mental Health Botany Cancer Parasitology Marine Biology Developmental Biology Immunology Toxicology Biological Engineering Paleontology Evolutionary Biology Biotechnology Pharmacology Physiology Neuroscience Molecular Biology Genetics Cell Biology Behavioral Neuroscience Anatomy Microbiology Medicine Biophysics 2012-04-02 21:15:34 Journal contribution https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/A_call_for_disruptive_innovation_in_science_publishing_with_a_new_open_data-sharing_platform_for_the_life_sciences/91541 <p><strong>“A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect.” -Wikipedia</strong><br>On April 3rd, 2012 Nature Precedings, Nature Publishing Group’s experiment in free pre-print publishing was shut down and no longer accepts submissions. According to the Nature Precedings website it was created in 2007 as “a place for researchers to share documents, including presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and non-peer-reviewed manuscripts.” It was designed to “provide a rapid means for scientists to share preliminary findings, disseminate emerging results, solicit community feedback, and claim priority over discoveries.” It was designed in a way to “make such material easy to archive, share and cite.” Now that Nature Precedings is no more, a new disruptive open data-sharing platform (ODSP) for the life sciences is needed. Based, in part, by the model Nature Precedings established. Here I propose 5 qualities of an ideal ODSP and outline 10 benefits (see Table 1) to scientists for embracing such a potentially disruptive model.</p>