Dean Giustini retells a very interesting story on his blog [1], to which I have reflected in my own blog which is cited (!) below [2].

The story of a blogger (Dr Cartwright) who was invited to be a co-author on a paper because another author (Dr Davis) who arrived at the same hypothesis didn't know how else to acknowledge him highlights a few emerging issues which I discuss in my blog [2].  The paradox I see is the following:

1) blogs (and other Internet venues such as wikis) are - at least in theory - important venues for scholarship to publish hyptheses, analyses etc. outside of the traditional journal publishing system

2) yet, they are not considered "citable" or "publications" - which in turn affects their use, usefulness, and acceptance among researchers as tools for scholalry communication.

If they (blogs, wikis) were considered citable, why else would Dr Davis, who came across the blog of Dr Cartwright, offer him co-authorship to "acknowledge" him? He could have just CITED him - which is usually how researchers acknowledge each other.

There are two answers to these questions - lack of "recognition" of webcitations due to perceived lack of "peer-review", and perceived lack of digital preservation of anything that is published outside of the traditional journal publishing system.

Both of these issues - which in my view impedes scholarly communication - are addressed by the WebCite® (http://www.webcitation.org) system.

WebCite® is a not-for-profit system which is live since 2005 and is already used by publishers like BiomedCentral and over 200 journals. It is part of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (consisting of libraries and Internet archives).

Simply put, WebCite® aims to make Internet material (any
sort of digital objects) more "citable", long-term accessible, and
hence more acceptable for scholarly purposes. Without WebCite®,
Internet citations are deemed ephemeral and therefore are often frowned
upon by authors and editors. By archiving Internet material WebCite makes them more "citable" (and
also by creating incentives such as mechanisms and metrics for
measuring the "impact" of online material by calculating and publishing
WebCite® impact factor).

We hope that this will encourage
scholars to publish ideas and data online in a wide range of formats,
which in turn should accelerate and facilitate the exchange of
scientific ideas.

For more information on what bloggers can do to make themselves "citable" (and to get their blog digitally preserved), see http://www.webcitation.org/#How_Cited . (WebCite is a completely innovative idea but it may help to reframe what WebCite does using traditional terminology: For bloggers, WebCite can actually be seens as a scholarly "journal", which brings blogs, wikis, and other Internet material into the "system" of scholarly publishing, i.e. by ensuring digital preservation, assigning a DOI (Digtial Object Identifier), and keeping track of citations).

We also invite publishers and editors to participate in this initiative by making sure that cited URLs in submitted manuscripts which are published in traditinal journals are "webcited" (i.e. digitally archived in WebCite). This ensures that readers do not encounter 404 not found errors when clicking on cited URLs which no longer exist, and that they see exactly what the author saw when he/she cited the Internet reference.

"Instructions for Authors" should point out the policy on citing Internet references and encoruage authors to "WebCite" cited non-journal Internet material. Copyeditors and editors should "WebCite" material if it hasn't been done by the author already at the time when he wrote the manuscript. We also have mechanisms in place for publishers to submit XML files (which we crawl to automatically archive cited Internet references).

References

1. Giustini, Dean. Blogs are increasingly venues for
scholarship. http://blog.openmedicine.ca/node/127.
Archived on WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/5UwdeD4vM

2. Eysenbach, Gunther. The
paradox of the current state of scholarly communication in the age of Web 2.0
Posted at http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/
Jan
18, 2008. Archived at http://www.webcitation.org/5Uwhhtdai

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This scientist has a slightly different experience. Someone saw some of their published data, and wanted to include it in his own publication separately. The author of the second paper was completed accreditation original researcher, as a co-author on a paper that was even before publication!

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