[adaptivegenome]

How long will this paper be? I'd like to include an entire section on open access with some comparative data if there'd be room.

Is there a link to the googledoc?

Joann, I am almost done setting this up. If you would like to add a section this should be no problem. We have a total of 800-1500 words. I would say we should probably not write an epic, but there should be room for anything you want to add.

Send me a PM and I will send you a link today as soon as I finish it.

[Joann]

length?

How long will this paper be? I'd like to include an entire section on open access with some comparative data if there'd be room.

Is there a link to the googledoc?

[marcowanger]

sorry guys. I was occupied over the week.

Thanks for creating a Gdoc. Will work on it over the weekend...

[adaptivegenome]

I will create a GDoc tonight then without disturbing the wiki. I'm sure Marco is fine with GDocs as well and we can all get our edits in. Let's try to set a goal of Wednesday next week for edits?

[robs]

Could we please move to GDocs?

I am fine with either.

[adaptivegenome]

Seems like we are stuck right now. There were no changes over the last week.
Could you figure out which part you will be able to work on and which one I should try to tackle next?

I agree. Genome Medicine has been waiting since the the 23rd of November. I for one am in a rut because it is so hard to edit and visualize a paper in a wiki. Could we please move to GDocs? I would volunteer to port everything and I would do it tonight.

GDoc tracks changes just like a wiki and we can even highlight each contribution with a different highlight color. Besides the key contributors are rather clear at this point anyways....

[robs]

OK, working on that ..

Seems like we are stuck right now. There were no changes over the last week.
Could you figure out which part you will be able to work on and which one I should try to tackle next?

[marcowanger]

We still need content for "Use Cases and Success Stories" and "Outlook and Perspective".

OK, working on that ..

[Joann]

We still need content for "Use Cases and Success Stories" and "Outlook and Perspective".

On the topic of open access I have located some current thinking of relevance to discussing the forum but it will likely take some additional time to obtain correct permission from the authors and to apply some comparative analysis. My sense is that there is limited time and space at this point for inclusion of this material here.

On the other hand, if there is a decision to include accurate details on the country participation to illustrate the support for open science demonstrated here, I would suggest that SEQanswers/authors propose undertaking periodic updates of this metric to enable longer term scientometric monitoring for the growth and expansion of open science and issue an invite to other open science platforms to do the same. This would have particular weight since it has been easy to recognize on this forum the signficance of international contributors who have added to the US-UK 50% bar in figure 3

Depending on the length of the article and with additional material, this report may be suitable as a regular contribution to Science rather than a letter.

[Joann]

Seems like Joann removed mine as well. I assumed that the removal of my edits was by accident and added them again.

The wiki log shows I added material on December 5. I did not remove or edit any existing material and do not intend to, so I don't know what happened.

[robs]

We still need content for "Use Cases and Success Stories" and "Outlook and Perspective".

[robs]

I saw that Joann removed some of my edits. I restored some of them. You might look to see if your revisions were removed around the same time. Think it was the 6th.

Seems like Joann removed mine as well. I assumed that the removal of my edits was by accident and added them again.

[adaptivegenome]

Can someone explain why all the changes that I made over the weekend were removed?

I saw that Joann removed some of my edits. I restored some of them. You might look to see if your revisions were removed around the same time. Think it was the 6th.

[marcowanger]

Can someone explain why all the changes that I made over the weekend were removed?

You can view the change log in wiki (history) & GDoc (under file--> file revision)

[Joann]

Maybe we have different sources. The data I was referring to was from Google Analytics and only contained Oct 2011.

I was referring to the country list on the spread sheet Marco sent, which appears to me to be a cumulative list, but maybe it is not, which is why I asked for clarification. Site activity analysis, that would reasonably be a month's worth of data, right? Not four years.

As far as the material under the open access topic heading, I would prefer to publish the cumulative list of countries as a benchmark. At the present time I have been successful locating datasets from other studies of open access information communication that would allow comparisons of global participation and would like to include this info as they are quite favorable.

I posted a reference (and pdf) over the weekend on a recent publishing industry survey that indicates researchers world wide have the most difficulty accessing (open and closed formats) the very type of scholarly/professional material that is regularly posted on this forum.