OpenWetWare:Steering committee/Meeting - November 2007

SC Reports

Brief reports on the month's activity should be written by each chair 2 days before the SC meeting. At the meeting each chair will bring up any open issues that require discussion, but won't need to recount everything described below.

Coordinator

• Nature MSB changes their OA policy to allow author to choose if they want to allow derivative works (in part due to our request)

Outreach

Julius B. Lucks 08:46, 1 November 2007 (CDT): Stub of some notes - I'll fill in soon.

• Rolled out new content of generated user page
  • TODO - follow up on new users to see which of them have customized their page or added a picture
• TODO - survey update

Publishing

Julius B. Lucks 08:59, 1 November 2007 (CDT): Over the SC list, we discussed the possibility of 'publishing' OWW works on arXiv.org. The basic idea can be seen on the [OpenWetWare:Steering_committee/Publishing_chairs#Recent_Ideas|Publising Chairs page]. This idea has been discussed with arXiv.org, and they think it sounds like a great idea. We need to discuss several things:

1. Does this idea make sense for OWW? There is nothing stopping an OWW user from publishing a pre-print derived from the OWW wiki on arXiv.org, but do we want to officially promote it (and thereby have somethin to do with best practices)?
2. How can we roll this out? Bill is already working on integrating the arXiv API with the wiki, and there was talk of adding it to the biblio pluggin. This means that arXiv id's will work just like pubmed id's and people can easily cite their arXiv works. We could even make this automatic when a work has been turned into an e-print.
   • The arXiv is not yet ready to handle automatic submissions (but will be soon). We could make a 'Publish to arXiv.org' button or link which then describes the manual procedure of turning the wiki page into a presentable PDF for submission. We will also have to write something about authorship in there as well. We will also have to create a list of journals that will accept a publication that has been posted on arXiv (Nature, PNAS, etc.) and a contact at that journal just in case an issue arises.