Attribution and mini publications

For the BioHackathons we have created a publishing model that allows contributors to get credit for work executed during and around BioHackathons:

1. We have a pre-publishing server https://BioHackrXiv.org/ hosted by the Open Science Foundation (OSF)
2. A published paper is a mini-publication and gets a (citeable) DOI

Mind: these mini-publications are not meant to be full scientific papers (though they can grow into one).

Mini-publications are meant to describe what the group achieved so the reader gets a sense of the 'state-of-the-art' and what was produced. It not only allows getting credit for work (attribution), it also allows people to find you and your work.

Author instructions can be found here

We wrote a script that converts markdown into a suitable PDF using pandoc. Attached are worked out examples of two working groups so you get an idea. The PDF generator can be found at

https://github.com/journal-of-research-objects/bhxiv-gen-pdf

We'll also announce an online version that does not require installing tools.

An example for the markdown of first attached paper can be found in

https://github.com/journal-of-research-objects/bhxiv-gen-pdf/tree/master/example/logic

During the BioHackathon we'll ask group coordinators to start on their mini-publications. Ideally they are written up during the hackathon and published right after! Instant gratification is what we aim for ;)

The organisers