Every document is born "grey". Some documents can become "open"
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I am Stefania Lombardi, Isti CNR, PhD in moral philosophy. My presentation is entitled Every Document is Born Grey, Some Documents Can Become Open. As we all know, grey doesn't often mean closed. Please forgive me this little joke, Gandalf the Grey
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standing for grey. Sometimes grey can mean hard to find, for example. So if its sources are open and there are the conditions, the whole document could become an open access one. An example among these is the case of the pre-prints.
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So when you archive a pre-print in a repository, what happened? You allow the free, open, and the grey pre-print become open access to everyone. And if the immediately archived grey pre-print is open access,
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it can accelerate global knowledge and research advancement. Before continuing, please remember, pre-print, as we know, is the version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and the publication in the peer reviewed scholarly or scientific journal.
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It is different from post-print, the famous accepted manuscript that is the final version of a manuscript after formal peer review. And it is also different from the version record that is the final typeset and edited version of the journal articles.
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So we can continue. What happened in the meantime? The recent COVID-19 pandemic is making us rethink the way we communicate, the way we search, research, and inform. There are some cases of publishers which immediately publish some COVID-19 related articles
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pre-prints. Others instead are making soon available the accepted manuscript. OK. Now let's concentrate on pre-prints that are closer
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to grey literature. An immediate and open pre-print could accelerate research in some fields and could let researchers and others know on time if there is a research deadlock or not.
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Some publishers are following this way. Before we continue, please take a moment for another very little recap. First point, the grey pre-print is becoming white when we let it to be open access in a repository.
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On this regard, please take a look at our GL 2020 logo. Done. OK. The second point is the grey becoming white pre-print
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is useful in the research process. Third point, some published article are witness of this. Among these articles, there are some examples. From the linked article, pre-prints, publishing, and the pandemic, your questions answered,
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we can summarize three important points. First point, pre-prints accelerate the dissemination research, as we know. Second point, pre-prints provide many benefits for researchers and are becoming more integrated into the scholarly publishing ecosystem. Third point, pre-prints will continue
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to complement the traditional journal publishing while adding speed, openness, and faster feedback for researchers. Take a moment for a little history overview
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from the linked article, a lesson of the pandemic. All plans should be pre-prints. In this article, we can find some useful consideration. There was a time when peer review before publication was the only system that made sense,
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a time when scientific journals were printed and mailed, and when it was essential to all the intellectual work in advance in order to have a product as accurate as possible. Today, however, all that has changed.
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We published online with ease, and we have all the necessary tools to manage academic journals online as well. So there is no longer any reason to give just two or three experts the full power to legitimize an academic paper.
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And there is no more reason to cite scientific knowledge from the public for months, for example. On the other hand, with this speed comes some mistakes.
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And there are several important retractions involving coronavirus and the COVID-19 related studies in both pre-print service and peer review journals. And we can find this concern in the linked article, pre-prints and peer review in a pandemic, for example.
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Taking in mind this concern, are there any possible solutions? Maybe yes. But we have to keep in mind that only pre-prints are not enough.
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If we do not make data and meters public, we risk damage. We can find more considerations about these into the linked article, Open Science Saves the Last Lesson from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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The point we have to do to make data and meters public is central in this argument. So let's summarize. As we know, some pre-prints will never become a published article, of course.
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By the way, knowing those pre-prints let people know why that research way is an impossible one, or if some other ways to improve research could be possible. So when GRAY becomes open, it improves and accelerates
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research, especially in this pandemic uncommon period. My presentation is over. Thank you, everyone. And Gandalf, the world.