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1 | Name | Organizations | Description | Organizational form | Budget | Staff | Current Funders (not exhaustive) | Sources | |||
2 | Altmetrics | ImpactStory | Open-source provider of altmetrics for individual researchers | Nonprofit | $625k in Sloan grants over a few years | Unclear; 2 cofounders on website | Sloan Foundation | http://impactstory.org/faq ; https://twitter.com/ImpactStory/status/344527516599472128 | |||
3 | Plum Metrics | Altmetric provider, typically for institutions | For-profit | Info not available | Unclear; 2 people on website | Looked and couldn't find | http://www.plumanalytics.com/about.html | ||||
4 | Altmetric.com | Almetric provider for both individuals and institutions | For-profit | Info not available | 6 | Digital Science | http://altmetric.com/about.php | ||||
5 | PLoS – Article Level Metrics | Less "alternative" and more "article level", open source software for publishers to use for data on downloads, access, etc | Nonprofit project | Looked and couldn't find | Unclear; 1 technical lead | PLoS | http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/about/ | ||||
6 | Post-publication peer review | Faculty of 1,000 - F1000 Prime | Paid service with ~10,000 reviewers who participate to rate articles after publication | For-profit project | Info not available | Looked and couldn't find | F1000 | http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/Jane%20Hunter%20and%20Rebecca%20Lawrence%20(public).pdf | |||
7 | Journal Lab | Web interface to allow people to comment on papers, vote up comments, etc. | For-profit | Seeking funding | Unclear; 2 cofounders | Seeking funding | http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/David%20Jay%2003-14-13%20(public).pdf | ||||
8 | Hypothes.is | Annotation and conversation addon for the entire web | Nonprofit | ~$2m budget for 2013 | 6 | Sloan Foundation, Mellon Foundation, others | http://hypothes.is/who/ ; http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/Dan%20Whaley%2005-08-13%20(public).pdf | ||||
9 | Numerous other platforms | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HD-BEaVeDdFjjCNFkb0j3pvwe7MrP3PtE-bWHkkdq7Q/edit# | Varies | Varies | Varies | Varies | document initially created by Jason Priem and shared on his Twitter feed | ||||
10 | Innovative open access publishing, including preprints | PeerJ | Startup open access journal and preprint publisher, lifetime membership model | For-profit | Info not available | 5 | Looked and couldn't find | https://peerj.com/about/ | |||
11 | eLife | New open access journal for the life sciences with no article processing charges for authors, run by HHMI and Wellcome | Nonprofit | Looked and couldn't find | Unclear; 13 "executive staff" | HHMI, Wellcome, Max Plank Society | http://www.elifesciences.org/about/elife-community/executive-staff/ | ||||
12 | PLoS | Largest open-source publisher and pioneer in the field, now considered "profitable" | Nonprofit | ~$20m in 2011 | >130 | PLoS | http://www.plos.org/about/people/ ; http://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/680492065 | ||||
13 | F1000Research | New open access journal that requires submission of data, publishes prior to peer review, and uses no significance filter | For-profit project | Info not available | Looked and couldn't find | F1000 | http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/Jane%20Hunter%20and%20Rebecca%20Lawrence%20(public).pdf | ||||
14 | PressForward | "A platform for overlay journals" | Nonprofit project | Looked and couldn't find | Looked and couldn't find | Sloan Foundation | http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/Josh%20Greenberg%2003-13-13%20(public).pdf | ||||
15 | ArXiv | Preprint server for physics, computer science, and some other disciplines | Nonprofit project | ~$800K for 2013 | Looked and couldn't find | Simons Foundation & Cornell | https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/culpublic/Initial+Five-Year+Support+Pledges ; https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/127116484/arXiv_CY13_budget_public.pdf | ||||
16 | Numerous other preprint servers | No exhaustive list, but there are appear to be many at relatively early stages (by comparison to ArXiv) | Varies | Varies | Varies | Varies | Varies | ||||
17 | Sharing data and code | Figshare | Repository for any data, including published article data but not exclusively; gives out DOIs so that researchers can cite | For-profit | Info not available | Looked and couldn't find | Digital Science | http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/Kaitlin%20Thaney%2004-10-13%20(public).pdf | |||
18 | Dryad | Repository for data from published articles, works with publishers | Nonprofit | $1.3m NSF grant | 7 | NSF | http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1147166 ; http://datadryad.org/pages/whoWeAre#staff | ||||
19 | Github | General service for backing up, sharing, and collaborating on code. Not specific to scholarly application | For-profit | $100 million in VC funding | 174 | Andreesen Horowitz | https://github.com/about ; http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/github100m/ | ||||
20 | Nature Scientific Data | Data journal | For-profit | Info not available | Looked and couldn't find | Nature Publishing Group | http://www.nature.com/press_releases/scientificdata.html | ||||
21 | Duraspace | Produces software for institutional repositories | Nonprofit | $1.8m in 2011 | 9 | Mellon Foundation | http://www.duraspace.org/duraspace_staff ; http://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/260389639 | ||||
22 | Registry of Research Data Repositories | re3data.org | Nonprofit project | Looked and couldn't find | Looked and couldn't find | German Research Foundation DFG | http://www.re3data.org/about/ | ||||
23 | Dataverse Network | http://thedata.org/ | Nonprofit project | Looked and couldn't find | 13 | NSF grants, Harvard | http://thedata.org/book/people | ||||
24 | Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) | Data archiving | Nonprofit | $10 million in grants in 2012 | 36 | NIH, Gates, NSF, NCAA, Shriver Institute, Department of Justice, RWJ Foundation, and more | http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/landing.jsp | ||||
25 | Reproducibility | Projects | Data/research process management software | For-profit project | Info not available | Looked and couldn't find | Digital Science | https://projects.ac/ | |||
26 | Center for Open Science | Assessing reproducibility of psychology studies, building infrastructure for future reproducibility studies | Nonprofit | ~$5m grant | Looked and couldn't find | Arnold Foundation | http://www.arnoldfoundation.org/center-open-science-provide-revolutionary-approach-scientific-communication | ||||
27 | Reproducibility Initiative | Effort to assess the reproducibility of a sample of volunteered biomedical lab studies | Nonprofit project | Seeking funding | 0 full time | Seeking funding | http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/Elizabeth%20Iorns%20conversation%2002-26-13%20(public).pdf | ||||
28 | RunMyCode | Allows public reproducibility of submitted data and code | Nonprofit | Looked and couldn't find | Unclear; ~13 people on website (excluding board), but many appear to be part time | Sloan Foundation | http://www.runmycode.org/CompanionSite/team.do | ||||
29 | iPython Notebook | Software environment for reproducible data analysis | Nonprofit project | Looked and couldn't find | Looked and couldn't find | Sloan Foundation | http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/Josh%20Greenberg%2003-13-13%20(public).pdf | ||||
30 | Attribution | ORCID | System to create unique identifiers for researchers so that they can be cited correctly | Nonprofit | >$750k in contributions | 6 | Numerous societies and publishers | http://orcid.org/about/team ; http://orcid.org/about/community/sponsors | |||
31 | DataCite | Infrastructure to enable the citation of data | Nonprofit | Looked and couldn't find | Looked and couldn't find | Member organizations | http://www.datacite.org/whatdowedo | ||||
32 | Advocacy | AllTrials | Campaign to ensure that all trials are registered and fully reported in a timely manner | Campaign | ~$60k Just Giving target | Looked and couldn't find | Looked and couldn't find | https://www.justgiving.com/alltrials | |||
33 | SPARC | Main open access advocate in the US | Nonprofit | <<$1M/year | ~5 | OSF | http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/Heather%20Joseph%2005-23-13%20(public).pdf | ||||
34 | PLoS - Cameron Neylon | PLoS' advocacy team, working to support open access | Nonprofit | Looked and couldn't find | 2 | PLoS | http://www.plos.org/about/people/staff/#advocacy ; http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/Cameron%20Neylon%2003-26-13%20(public).pdf | ||||
35 | Retraction Watch | Blog about retractions | Blog | ~None | 2 volunteers | None | http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/Ivan%20Oransky%20Conversation%2002-21-13%20public.pdf | ||||
36 | SF Declaration on Research Assessment | Campaign against the use of journal impact factors in research evaluation | Campaign | Looked and couldn't find | Looked and couldn't find | Looked and couldn't find | http://am.ascb.org/dora/ | ||||
37 | Open Knowledge Foundation | Works to open both government and scientific data | Nonprofit | Looked and couldn't find | Unclear; ~40 on website but many appear to be volunteers | Sloan Foundation, Hewlett Foundation | http://okfn.org/about/partners-and-funders/ ; http://okfn.org/about/team/ | ||||
38 | Sage Bionetworks - John Wilbanks | Policy efforts to make it easier to donate medical data | Nonprofit | ~$6m in 2011 | ~35 total, with ~1 devoted to policy work | Numerous biomedical funders | http://www.givewell.org/files/conversations/John%20Wilbanks%2003-25-13%20(public).pdf ; http://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/264489946 | ||||
39 | Citizen Science Association | Advocacy group for Citizen Science | Nonprofit | N/a | http://www.citizenscienceassociation.org | ||||||
40 | Citizen Science Alliance | Advocacy group for Citizen Science | Nonprofit | N/a | http://www.citizensciencealliance.org | ||||||
41 | Citizen Science Center | Advocacy for Citizen (participatory science) | Profit | n/a | http://www.citizensciencecenter.com | ||||||
42 | Changing publication models | FORCE 11 | Hosts Beyond the PDF conferences, devoted to the next generation of scholarly communication, community website | Nonprofit | ~$200k grant | ~1 staff member; ~400 community members | Sloan Foundation | Martone notes | |||
43 | myExperiment | http://www.myexperiment.org/ | Nonprofit | Looked and couldn't find | Looked and couldn't find | EU | http://www.myexperiment.org/ | ||||
44 | Scalar | Platform for digital publications that are not (just) journal articles | Nonprofit | Looked and couldn't find | Unclear; 6 people on website | Mellon Foundation | http://scalar.usc.edu/people/ | ||||
45 | Workflow4Ever | http://www.wf4ever-project.org/web/guest/home | Nonprofit | ~4m Euro grant | Looked and couldn't find | EU | http://www.wf4ever-project.org/partners | ||||
46 | Social networks that are working on these issues | Academia.edu | Social network for scientists to share papers, get metrics | For-profit | $6.7m in VC funding | Looked and couldn't find | Spark and other VCs | http://www.crunchbase.com/company/academia-edu | |||
47 | ResearchGate | Social network for scientists to share papers, get metrics | For-profit | >$35m in VC funding | Looked and couldn't find | Benchmark, Founders Fund,Bill Gates, other VCs | http://www.crunchbase.com/company/researchgate | ||||
48 | Mendeley | Reference manager and social network for scientists | For-profit | $2m in VC funding, acquired by Elsevier for ~$100m | Looked and couldn't find | Elsevier | http://www.crunchbase.com/company/mendeley | ||||
49 | Alternative peer review model | Rubriq | http://www.rubriq.com/ | For-profit | Info not available | 13 | Looked and couldn't find | http://www.rubriq.com/who/our-team/ | |||
50 | Peerage of Science | A collaborative peer review model in which reviews are eligible for use by multiple jounals; journals pay for the service. Peer reviews are themselves peer reviewed | For-profit | Info not available | 2-5 | May be profitable | http://www.peerageofscience.org/company/our-team/ ; http://www.peerageofscience.org/faq/#faq13 | ||||
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53 | Medical/Cochrane-related entities | "Info not available" is used for for-profits where we couldn't find relevant info about investment amounts | |||||||||
54 | Crowdfunding sites | The process of looking for the relevant data generally involved visiting the group's website for a short period of time, and in some cases referring to publicly available tax documents (IRS 990s) | |||||||||
55 | Some other data sharing and repository infrastracture | Staff numbers are generally derived from website "people" or "about" pages, which do not necessarily include all or only full-time employees |