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[RCR] The empowered author: understanding changes in scholarly publishing, protecting your interests, and promoting ethical publishing practices

[RCR] The empowered author: understanding changes in scholarly publishing, protecting your interests, and promoting ethical publishing practices

This workshop will start with an overview of how the dominant model of scholarly publishing really works - the business behind it, the incentives, and things to look out for - to lay the context for how we got to where we are now in scholarly publishing. We’ll then cover some emerging models of research dissemination, like different models of open access, and discuss how they work, the pros and cons of each, and what’s happening with funder public access requirements. We’ll review publication contracts, and discuss what they do and how to protect your own rights and interests and avoid scams when you submit to a journal. Finally, we’ll conclude by talking a bit about research and impact metrics, some of their unintended side-effects, and what we could do to improve how all of this works and promote more ethical and equitable research and publishing practices.

The workshop, offered via Zoom, will include a mix of lecture and group activities, and is eligible for 2 hours of Graduate School RCR credits - GS714.05.

Note - registration for this workshop is closed, and there are already many people on a waitlist - many more than we can accommodate. Please do not email the instructors asking for an exception, as we cannot add any more people to the registration list at this time. We will be offering the same workshops in the spring, with registration opening on January 1. See this link for info about those workshops.

Date:
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Time:
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Categories:
Copyright   Publishing   RCR Workshop   ScholarWorks   Scholarly Communications  
Registration has closed.

Registrants will be a sent a Zoom link several days before the program date. You must log in with a Zoom account that has a Duke-associated email address (i.e., authenticated with your Duke NetID).

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Paolo Mangiafico

 

Scholarly Communications Strategist, Duke University Libraries