Experimental Publishing at the Intersection of Science, Art, and Technology - ACRL 2017

Webinar for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) discussing the advantages of sparking convergences and interactions among art, science, and technology within the academy, and highlighting how the library can help form the bridge for interdisciplinary collaboration. Presented with Roger Malina, Jon Ippolito, and Jill Rogers.

Full video at youtu.be/F3ivmXoJPso.

Transcript

1. Experimental Publishing at the Intersection of Science, Art, and Technology arteca.mit.edu leonardo.info April 20, 2017 The ARTECA art science technology aggregator
2. Overview Introductions 
 Mark Derks The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective 
 Roger Malina · UT Dallas MIT Press: The Publisher’s Perspective
 Jill Rodgers · MIT Press Beyond Repositories 
 Jon Ippolito · University of Maine ARTECA: The Art, Science, Technology Aggregator 
 Cassini Nazir and Roger Malina · UT Dallas 1 2 3 4 5
3. The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective Roger Malina Distinguished Professor of Arts & Technology 
 Professor of Physics
 The University of Texas at Dallas Experimental Publishing at the Intersection of Science, Art, and Technology
4. Rationales and Motivations for creating the ARTECA platform at MIT Press • Very rapidly growing research community and commercial sectors • The international STEM to STEAM discussion, integrating the arts, design and humanities “into” STEM education, research, and industry • Current wave came into focus from series of NSF/NEA/NEH convenings • John Maeda/RISD advocacy • The STEAM caucus in US congress • US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine to issue a report fall 2018 • European Union launched in Horizon 2020 the “STARTS: Science Technology and the Arts” funding program for research and start-ups The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
5. Drivers for Growth of Research and Commercial Interest • International drive on “innovation” leading to new forms of employment • Corporate interest in areas that involve design and emerging media innovation • Leonardo authors and audience are important actors in this movement • Transdisciplinary initiatives part of the “creativity theory” work, Design Thinking and the training of T-shaped individuals (Stanford d.school) • The emergence and spread of PhDs in Art and Design, Schools of Digital Media • In Europe the “Bologna” process to bring schools of art and design into universities • The Leonardo publications started in 1967 and are seeing a large growth in audience and article, book submissions • Growing number of university programs and tenure track faculty internationally • ARTECA is a new publishing and service platform for this community The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
6. Founding of Leonardo Publications •  1950s Paris: Artists began to appropriate new technologies into art making; 
 1960s first computer art • These developments were marginal to the art- and design-world (modernism, abstract expressionism) • Artists were from multiple origins (Central Europe, Japan, South America) while the art world was regionally structured • The artists found resistance to their approaches • If you can plug it in it can’t be art • Artists should paint not write. Art critics do the writing. • Regional Art as self contained worlds (NY, Paris, etc) • They decided to start their own art journal The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
7. Leonardo Publications • Contract signed with Pergamon Press in 1966 • Advocated use of new technologies in science and the arts • Art/Science and Art/Technology • Writing by artists about their own work • Modeled on scientific peer-reviewed publications • International Editorial Board, Editor Frank Malina • Editorial Board • Initial: Arnheim, Gombrich, Kepes, Max Bill, B. Fuller, J. Brownowski, C.P. Snow, J. Needham • Past: John Cage, CH Waddington, LL Whyte, Frank Oppenheimer, JJ Gibson, Otto Piene • Moved to MIT Press in 1992 The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
8. Publishing Program MIT Press : 50 years, 10,000 authors
 Leonardo Journal, Leonardo Music Journal, Books Series, ebooks, web sites The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
9. E-Evolution of Leonardo Publications 1967 Leonardo journal, print 1985 Move to desktop publishing 1987 Fineart Forum e-newsletter on arpanet 1989 Leonardo Electronic News on internet 1991 Leonardo Electronic Almanac: e-zine, CDI 1992 Leonardo Book Series at MIT Press 1993 Leonardo Music Journal – CD as publishing medium 1994 Leonardo among first 400 sites on web The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
10. E-Evolution of Leonardo Publications 1994 Xerox PARC: first digital scan of archives 1998 First ebook versions of print books 1999 LEA Print on Demand 2010 First podcasts, videos as supplementary files 2012 Living ebooks/web companions 2014 Creative Disturbance podcast platform 2016 ARTECA: the art, science, tech aggregator The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
11. Lessons • Leonardo community (academic, industrial, creative communities) are early adopters of multimedia and digital systems for research and publishing • The Leonardo publications evolved continuously to be responsive to new forms of scholarly documentation • This evolution will continue: Hence the need for a platform on which experimental publishing approaches can be tested • Scholarly publishing undergoing a number of transitions • Open access, peer review, gray literature, etc • ARTECA provides a flexible environment for evolving The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
12. Current Issues: Open Access • Leonardo and ARTECA are hybrid open access The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
13. NSF-funded Report Published (Open Access) • Steps to an Ecology of Networked Knowledge and Innovation: Enabling New Forms of Collaboration among Sciences, Engineering, Arts, and Design 
 
 Roger F. Malina, Carol Strohecker, and Carol LaFayette, on behalf of SEAD network contributors • View online at mitpressjournals.org/page/NSF_SEAD • Published as a Leonardo eBook by MIT Press The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
14. Open Access and Self-Archiving Policy • Open access option for authors whose funding agencies require it • Processing charge ($1250) • Proposed: Through publishing in ARTECA, authors will have free and open access to ARTECA content The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
15. Peer Review • Leonardo journals and books are peer reviewed • Single blind • 3–4 peer reviewers • LASER videos, Creative Disturbance podcasts are curated • ARTECA is a platform on which new approaches to peer reviewing can be tested and refined • How to peer-review gray literature: curated, ‘closed’ community rankings • Will run parallel experiments in peer reviewing • Migration from forthcoming ARTECA pre-print server The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
16. The MIT Press: The Publisher’s Perspective Jill Rodgers Institutional & Subscription Marketing Manager
 The MIT Press Experimental Publishing at the Intersection of Science, Art, and Technology
17. Our History with Publishing Technologies 1926 Published lectures from visiting physicist Max Born 1962 Became independent publishing house 1972 Launched journals division 1995 First full-text interactive ebook 1997 Began serving journals digitally 2000 Launched MIT CogNet 2012 Improved mobile sites 2014 Grew ePUB offerings The MIT Press: The Publisher’s Perspective · Jill Rodgers
18. Idea Commons • Includes MIT CogNet, Education Xpress, ARTECA • Customized online community and publishing platform • Ideal support for interdisciplinary and/or cross-sector communication • Features include • Citation, annotation, sharing functions • Housing of both paid and open content • Support for user-uploaded content, white papers, gray literature The MIT Press: The Publisher’s Perspective · Jill Rodgers
19. Partnering with Leonardo/ISAST • MITP is the only university press whose list is based in science and technology • Leonardo joined the MIT Press family in 1992 • Alignment of general mission goals • Meeting our researchers/contributors where they are working • Meeting our readers where/how they are consuming content • Disseminating the highest-quality scholarly content as broadly as possible The MIT Press: The Publisher’s Perspective · Jill Rodgers
20. The Leonardo Appeal • Strong Impact • #2 in Visual Arts (Google Scholar Metrics) • Q1 in Visual and Performing Arts (SCImago) • 8K+ citations • Contributors representing artists, scientists, scholars, and practitioners from across the globe • Readership equally diverse: 325K+ full-text downloads annually from 70+ countries The MIT Press: The Publisher’s Perspective · Jill Rodgers
21. ARTECA: Built for Libraries • Curated collection • Cost savings • DRM-free content • Growing list of nearly 200 books and nearly 200 journal issues from over 4,000 contributors • New and archival content added regularly • COUNTER-compliant usage statistics • MARC records compiled by the MIT Libraries The MIT Press: The Publisher’s Perspective · Jill Rodgers
22. Start Your Free Trial Today • Required • Your Name • Your Library/Institution • Your Email Address • Optional • IP Range(s) • Carnegie Classification The MIT Press: The Publisher’s Perspective · Jill Rodgers VISIT arteca.mit.edu/library-trial CONTACT arteca@mit.edu
23. Beyond Repositories Jon Ippolito Professor and Program Coordinator of New Media
 Director of Digital Curation
 University of Maine @jonippolito Experimental Publishing at the Intersection of Science, Art, and Technology
24. ARTECA: The Art, Science, Technology Aggregator Roger Malina Distinguished Professor of Arts & Technology 
 Professor of Physics
 The University of Texas at Dallas Cassini Nazir Clinical Associate Professor
 Director of Design, ArtSciLab
 The University of Texas at Dallas Experimental Publishing at the Intersection of Science, Art, and Technology
25. ARTECA • Multimedia, multilingual aggregator modeled after MIT Press’ CogNet and EducationXpress for online learning research • For researchers, scholars, artists, students, and practitioners in the arts, science, design, new media, and technology communities • Hybrid open access and subscription-based access to MIT Press ebooks and multijournal articles in “art, science, and technology” • Tackles how to capture key gray literature • Growing fraction of key “literature” doesn’t go through publisher, much is unstable – often not highly referenced on search engines, no DOIs • Parallel experiments in peer reviewing • Proposed curatorial group: Contributors to content (authors), quality (peer reviewers), or pertinence (editorial advisors) gets free access and be a group of experts for curating ARTECA: The Art, Science, Technology Aggregator · Roger Malina and Cassini Nazir
26. ARTECA – Other Features • Multimodal, multilingual publications • Software, databases • E-books, web companions, music, video channel • Podcasts (Creative Disturbance and MIT Press) • Other functionalities using MIT’s EducationXPress: • MOOC aggregation • Using same platform as MIT Press CogNet Aggregator • Subscription business model, mixed open access • Targets: Schools of art and design internationally ARTECA: The Art, Science, Technology Aggregator · Roger Malina and Cassini Nazir
27. Phased Development • Phase 1 – product launch (2016) • Opened with nearly 200 books and 200 journal issues from 4,000+ contributors • Phase 2 – production + platform building • Continue adding to core content: books and journals • Add in key gray literature (audio, video, catalogue, presentations, etc.) • Add tools and functionalities for users (save content, create course packets, integrate with LMS, etc.) • Add tools that scale and automate core production tasks • Phase 3 – ecologies: extend tools/services + community building • Focus on creating tools and services for the community • Open the platform to allow community to contribute tools ARTECA: The Art, Science, Technology Aggregator · Roger Malina and Cassini Nazir
28. ARTECA and Gray Literature • Defined as research output created outside of traditional commercial or academic publishing channels • Includes conference proceedings, preprints, newsletters, presentations, field and lecture notes, blog postings, etc. • May include multimodal content, multilingual • Traditional preference for only peer-reviewed, citable academic journals in research • Gray literature has become increasingly more important in scholarly communication, despite its lack of review • Needs to be discovered, captured, curated, and stabilized ARTECA: The Art, Science, Technology Aggregator · Roger Malina and Cassini Nazir
29. Gray Literature + ARTECA • Currently expanding holdings for gray literature objects • Podcasts • Videos • Catalogue materials • Defining content types and new methods for aggregation • DOI: Ensure the materials are stable, citable and are not lost to data and link rot • Will readers still be able to access the content in 5 years, 10 years, 
 50 years? ARTECA: The Art, Science, Technology Aggregator · Roger Malina and Cassini Nazir
30. Comparison of Holdings ARTECA Project MUSE JSTOR EBSCOHost Leonardo Full + stable Full Arts + Sciences III package Leo 1968–2011 Varies LMJ Full + stable Full Arts + Sciences III package LMJ 1991–2011 Varies CMJ Full + stable Full Arts + Sciences VII package
 CMJ 1977–2011 Varies Books 191 titles Varies by institution Varies by institution Varies by institution Gray Lit Audio, video, catalogue, growing list of material none none none ARTECA: The Art, Science, Technology Aggregator · Roger Malina and Cassini Nazir
31. Continuous Development and Improvement • Ongoing user research to understand and improve the experience • Usability tests • Analytics (Google HEART framework) • Additional development of the platform • Allow users to bookmark/save content (faculty could create reading lists) • Exploring integration into LMS ARTECA: The Art, Science, Technology Aggregator · Roger Malina and Cassini Nazir
32. Start Your Free Trial Today • Required • Your Name • Your Library/Institution • Your Email Address • Optional • IP Range(s) • Carnegie Classification Experimental Publishing at the Intersection of Science, Art, and Technology VISIT arteca.mit.edu/library-trial CONTACT arteca@mit.edu