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
   

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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
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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
   

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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
   

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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
   

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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
   

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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
   

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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
   

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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
   

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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
    

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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
    

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12. Current Issues: Open Access
    • Leonardo and ARTECA are hybrid open access
    The Leonardo Story: The Editor’s Perspective · Roger Malina
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
    

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
    

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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
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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
    

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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
    

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