TY - DATA T1 - A call for disruptive innovation in science publishing with a new open data-sharing platform for the life sciences PY - 2012/04/02 AU - Don Cooper UR - 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 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.91541.v1 L4 - https://iop.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/90683 KW - open data KW - open data KW - open science KW - open science KW - Open data KW - open data-share platform KW - science publishing KW - science policy KW - Bioinformatics KW - Mental Health KW - Botany KW - Cancer KW - Parasitology KW - Marine Biology KW - Developmental Biology KW - Immunology KW - Toxicology KW - Biological Engineering KW - Paleontology KW - Evolutionary Biology KW - Biotechnology KW - Pharmacology KW - Physiology KW - Neuroscience KW - Molecular Biology KW - Genetics KW - Cell Biology KW - Behavioral Neuroscience KW - Anatomy KW - Microbiology KW - Medicine KW - Biophysics N2 - “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.” -WikipediaOn 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. ER -