Tune in for these upcoming NISO educational events in August! A single registration allows you to gather an unlimited number of staff in a conference or classroom setting to listen in to leaders in the profession.
Even if staff is unable to attend the live broadcast due to scheduling conflicts or travel, links to the archived recording are sent within 24-48 hours of the event to maximize the value of your training dollars.
Here’s what’s in store:
Open Source Publishing Technologies: Current Status and Emerging Possibilities
NISO Webinar, Wednesday, August 14, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (Eastern Time)
This session will focus on discussions of open source publishing platforms and systems. What is the value proposition? What functionalities are commonplace? Where are the pitfalls in adoption and use by publishers or by libraries? What potential is there for scholarly societies who are similarly responsible for publication support and dissemination? Given the rising interest in open access and open educational resources, this session will offer professionals a sense of what is available, a sense of practical concerns and a general sense of their future direction.
Confirmed speakers include Peter Murray, Open Source Community Advocate, Index Data; Maria Stanton, Director of Production, and Christine Fruin, Scholarly Communication and Digital Projects Manager, American Theological Library Association; and Paul Shannon, Chief Technology Officer, eLife.
One on-going concern in scholarly communication has to do with publication time lags and ultimately, any delays to research dissemination. How can publishing systems more efficiently support peer-review? How rapidly can a manuscript move from completed draft to the status of preprint to a final version of record? Certainly in recent years, there have been calls for more efficient and more transparent manuscript transfer and exchange. However, ensuring quality of publication has always entailed a certain degree of lag as materials moved through the editorial and production process. This event will examine some of the nuances of the process as well as emerging possibilities for improvement.
A natural follow-up question then would be how best to guard against predatory publishers – those who would seduce researchers into submitting good work to questionable periodicals. No author wants to pay hefty feeds for publication lacking the checks of peer review or editorial oversight. Are whitelists (or conversely, blacklists) the right approach in guiding researchers to the best journals for their scholarly output? What about badges for publications (whether in traditional formats or not)? Or will such protective approaches simply expand existing issues associated with regard to metrics for use in gauging impact and/or reach?
Confirmed speakers for this event include: Kent Anderson, Founder, Caldera Associates; Brian Cody, Co-Founder and CEO, and Danielle Padula, Community Development Manager, Scholastica; and Sally Ubnoske, Senior Business Systems Analyst, Aries Systems. The event page is being updated weekly with confirmed speaker names and the preliminary agenda.
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