RIO grant proposal publication

[rougier]

Should we got for it ? (see https://twitter.com/RIOJournal/status/703141211612155904) I can try to write it based on the proposal (but I'm not familiar with the RIO journal).

[betatim]

What kind of benefits could we get from publishing this proposal?

(I am not familiar with RIO but presumably it will take some effort/time, so it isn't "free" so we should weigh pros and cons.)

[rougier]

I tend to see this as an extra opportunity to make the project more visible and get new comments / ideas / contributions / feedbacks.

[rossmounce]

Pros:

• Cost-free (in terms of $$$ money)
• Arguably higher-visibility. The proposal will get indexed by Google Scholar and others. It will then pop-up in the search alerts of other academics.
• Get a DOI for the proposal. DOI's aren't magic, but a lot of academics seem to think that an object is more 'citable' if it has a DOI. Mechanisms such as the CrossRef API arguably do make it easier to generate an appropriate reference, given a DOI.
• Support a fellow well-meaning open science initiative (to formally publish research proposals and other non-traditional research outputs)
• You'll get a machine-readable full-text JATS XML version of your proposal. In the long term we hope that PMC will index the journal and RIO outputs can add to the excellent PMC OA Subset.

Cons:

• It will take additional time to enter it into Pensoft's ARPHA publishing system

See the ContentMine + Hypothes.is proposal for an example outcome: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/rio.2.e8424

COI disclaimer: I am one of the founding academic editors of the journal. Ask me anything if you have any questions. I won't interfere in this thread any further unless you ask me :smile: