Elements of the Karma System

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What are the elements of a reputation/karma system? What sorts of activities should gain/lose karma, and what abilities should they ‘buy’ in a preprint ecosystem? Here are our notes:

Activities Generating Karma

– adding tags
– suggesting tags
– moderating comments
– moderating tags
– commenting
– voting up a comment
– voting down a comment
– having a comment voted up
– having a comment voted down
– posted a paper
– reviewing a paper
– scores from review: review formula – ratings normalized by review score and maybe reviewer
– voting up a review
– voting down a review
– having a review voted up
– having a review voted down
– author upvotes your review
– author upvotes your comment
– moderating users
– using a social media button

Privileges that Karma Unlocks
– Post a paper (0 Karma)
– Post a comment (0 Karma)
– Post a review (0 Karma)
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– Vote up a comment
– Vote up a review
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– Vote down a comment
– Vote down a review
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– Flag a paper
– Flag a tag
– Flag a comment
– Flag a review
– Flag a user
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– Add a tag to someone else’s paper
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– Create a tag (starts 3-4 monts in)
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– moderation priviledges

Starting Ideas for Post-Use Survey of OpenPub

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Encourage conversation about the site on the site

Add a feedback email link

What do we want to achieve from a survey?

The purpose/motivation is

1) Increase speed of the scholarly communication process

2) Provide a place for preprints and other works

3) Demonstrate the value of conversation as it relates to scholarly works

4) Demonstrate the value of assigning value to review

5) Demonstrate the value of preprints

General Questions

Did you find all of this useful as an author?

Did you find all of this useful as an reading consumer?

Did you find all of this useful as an actively participating consumer?

Do you now feel more engaged and interested with preprints, conversation, and the review process?

Which of these features are useful?  Which are not? Tear it down to each piece?

What other features would you find useful?

Has this changed you as a participant in the scholarly communications process?

How active are you? As a reader? As a participant? As an author?

 

Issues to consider

When do we survey people? Email their survey after their account is 6 months old.

Prod people to participate if they haven’t held up their end of the bargain? Don’t show karma until they have done the thing

Surveying Opinions on Scholarly Publishing in EEB

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If you want to envision change to the current system of publication, you need to know what people think about where we are, and where we want to go with the future of scholarly publication. So, as part of our working group, today we are launching a survey of attitudes about scholarly publishing and communication by Ecologists, Evolutionary Biologists, and Earth & Environmental Scientists.

Our goal is to establish a baseline of your opinions on the current state of scholarly communication for our fields so as to highlight potential gaps and improvements.

Please, head on over and take the survey. We want your input. We’ll be using it both to write up a paper, and inform a few future projects from the group.

http://bit.ly/eebpublishing

Great opportunity to give feedback to ESA on Open Access & the future of publishing

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I really enjoyed the recent Collins et al. piece on the future of open access and publishing within ESA – ESA and Scientific Publishing—Past, Present, and Pathways to the Future. At the end of the piece, there is a call for feedback on all of this, and it is something that we all well should ponder – and consider responding to.

Thanks to Scott et al. for being open with Ecologists, and giving us a forum to send them our thoughts. I’m excited about this dialogue!

Invitation for input

We invite you to contribute your ideas about ESA’s publishing and other initiatives. What issues do you believe need to be on the table? What are your concerns and hopes for the changing dynamics of sharing scientific research results? In what ways do you think ESA can best continue to serve the community?

Current ESA programs that benefit from the Society’s existing business model include its policy activities, such as bringing ecological information to policymakers through briefings, meetings, and letters, keeping members informed of relevant policy issues, broadly sharing ecology through press releases, podcasts, blog posts, and other social media, supporting young ecologists, ecology education and diversification of the discipline, and providing workshops and science conferences to address ecological and environmental issues.

What do you see as ESA’s most important role? What areas do you see as less important and why? Do you have specific suggestions for other models that ESA could explore that would enable it to continue supporting existing programs that members value? What would be the best possible outcome for the ecological community in the face of changing publication modes and information sharing?
Please send comments to pubsfeedback@esa.org