Publish-Review-Curate: Turning Scholarly Publishing on Its Head

ATRIUM Principle Investigator, Toma Tasovac, was invited to speak at the COAR event Publish-Review-Curate: Turning Scholarly Publishing on Its Head in Cambridge.

Toma presented ATRIUM’s ongoing work on the assessment of non-traditional research outputs and how they are concretely used in the Overlay journal Transformations: A DARIAH Journal.

PRC as a Model for Rethinking Scholarly Publishing in the Arts and Humanities

Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) is emerging as a key point of convergence for diamond open access, open peer review, research-assessment reform, and public research infrastructures.

Even though PRC outputs still make up a relatively small portion of the overall scientific production, recent developments suggest that the policy landscape is increasingly ready for PRC-style reform:

→ 𝐜𝐎𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔–𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟎 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 ( https://lnkd.in/duMwxzQc ) highlights PRC, diamond OA and preprints as models to be strengthened for sustainability and equity.

→ EUA’s 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 ( https://lnkd.in/df-nWgxS ) documents rising APC costs and positions PRC as a way to decouple registration, review and curation.

→ 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐓-𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐎 (COAR, LIBER Europe , OpenAIRE AMKE , SPARC Europe , https://lnkd.in/dKwZAren ) identifies repositories as strategic components of scholarly communication and points to PRC as a transparent, cost-effective workflow.