Research infrastructure scientific communication systems

ICT advances in research infrastructures are continuously changing the way research and scientific communication are performed. Scientists, funders, and organizations are moving the paradigm of "research publishing" well beyond traditional articles. The aim is to pursue an holistic approach where publishing includes any product (e.g. publications, datasets, experiments, software, web sites, blogs) resulting from a research activity and relevant to the interpretation, evaluation, and reuse of the activity or part of it. The implementation of this vision is today mainly inspired by literature scientific communication workflows, which separate the "where" research is conducted from the "where" research is published and shared. In this paper we claim that this model cannot fit well with modern scientific communication practice. We present the idea of Research Infrastructure Scientific Communication (RISC) systems, which meet modern research publishing requirements by blurring the distinction between research life-cycle and research publishing. Finally, we present the implementation of a RISC system, running in the context of the D4Science research infrastructure.