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Welcome to the New Era of Scientific Publishing

— by Tobias Kuhn, 4 April 2022; reporting on work with Cristina Bucur, Davide Ceolin, and Jacco van Ossenbruggen [1,2] —

I believe we have made the first steps venturing into a new era of scientific publishing. Let me explain. [Update: At what point exactly a new era begins and what counts as first steps are of course subject to debate. I therefore added a section on related initiatives and further reading below.]

Science is nowadays communicated in a digital manner through the internet. We essentially have a kind of "scientific knowledge cloud", where researchers with the help of publishers upload their latest findings in the form of scientific articles, and where everybody who is interested can access and retrieve these findings. (This is in fact only true for articles that are published as Open Access, but that is not the point here.)

	from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
	from urllib.request import urlopen
	import requests

	soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen("http://www.oxfordjournals.org/nar/database/a"), "lxml")
	urls = [link['href'] for link in soup.find_all('a', href=True) if link.text.strip() == "database"]
	total = len(urls)
	failed = 0

	# This code uses Biopython to retrieve lists of articles from pubmed
	# you need to install Biopython first.

	# If you use Anaconda:
	# conda install biopython

	# If you use pip/venv:
	# pip install biopython

	# Full discussion: