Overview

Scholarly communication is steadily moving towards an open environment through open access publishing, self-archiving and increased transparency around the work that goes into scholarly research outputs. Learn about new forms of publishing such as micropublications, null and data results, registered research reports and preprints, and how tools like ORCID and social media can help shape and promote your online scholarly identity. Please register below.

Learning Objectives 

By the end of this workshop, learners will be able to:

• Define the characteristics of scholarly publishing and the hurdles to publishing open access
• Explain how emerging models of scholarly communication improve reproducibility
• Describe the best ways forward to an open research communication system
• Identify scholarly communication tools to help manage their online presence

Instructors: Veronique Kiermer, Executive Editor for PLOS, and Dan Morgan, Director of Community Relations, PLOS

Instructor Bio

Veronique Kiermer joined the publisher PLOS in 2015 as Executive Editor, responsible for editorial and content direction and vision for the PLOS suite of journals. Prior to PLOS, Veronique was Director of Author and Reviewer Services for Nature Publishing Group (NPG) where she oversaw the Nature journals research integrity and editorial policies. She also focused on the author and reviewer experience across the publishing portfolio of NPG. Veronique was the founding Chief Editor of Nature Methods and subsequently took on publishing responsibility for the title and other online products. In 2010 she became Executive Editor, NPG, overseeing editorial policies and editorial quality assurance for Nature and the Nature journals. Veronique obtained her PhD in molecular biology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and completed postdoctoral work at UCSF. 

Dan Morgan is the Director of Community Relations at PLOS, where he guides PLOS' strategic engagmenet with core scholarly publishing and research communities. Prior to his position at PLOS, Dan led the launch of the new, value-sharing, open access journal Collabra at UC Press. He also worked as Senior Manager of Global Academic Relations, Executive Publisher, Publishing Editor, and Editorial Assistant with the publisher Elsevier. His core skills are in journals/product management and launch, communications, product strategy, market analysis, scientometrics, altmetrics, community-building, advocacy, open access and open science.

This workshop is part of a series on Biomedical Reproducibility. Other workshops in this series include:

• Sept 19 – Introduction to Reproducibility, Researcher Panel + Reception! - Ariel Deardorff
• Sept 26 – Rigorous Experimental Design – Karla Lindquist, PhD
• Oct 3 – Open Publishing - Veronique Kiermer & Dan Morgan
• Oct 10 – Open Protocols – Lenny Teytelman, PhD
• Oct 24 – Open Code – Karthik Ram, PhD
• Oct 31 – Peer Review – Jessica Polka, PhD
• Nov 7 – Data Publishing – Daniella Lowenberg
• Nov 14 – Building a Reproducible Lab – Elizabeth Silva, PhD