Increasing Rigor and Promoting Open Science: New Directions in Scholarly Publishing

If you follow science news, you know that researchers in every field are under pressure to increase the rigor and reproducibility of their work and to make their work and data open to all.

If you work in scholarly communication, you also know that the options of where and what to publish are changing rapidly and in confusing ways in response to this pressure. If you are looking for one webinar that brings you up to date with initiatives to incentivize new forms of scholarly publication and other innovations in scholarly communication, this webinar is it.

Melissa Rethlefsen, a researcher on reproducibility who has embraced pre-registration, preprints, and data sharing for her own scholarship, and Stephen Gabrielson, an experienced Scholarly Communication Librarian, will be your guides to the latest and most important developments in scholarly communication.

You’ll learn about open science initiatives designed to increase rigor and reproducibility and open scholarship policies and best practices. Researchers are now expected to publish their research methods, data, and code. You’ll get an overview of places they can publish these. You’ll also understand the important role of research outputs outside of traditional article publication, such as pre-prints, pre-registration, and protocols, in the new scholarly communications landscape.

What you learn will enable you to work more effectively and with greater confidence in advising researchers on the best outlet for their work. You’ll also be able to offer consultations and teaching sessions informed by knowledge of the latest developments and current trends in open science and approaches to improving the quality of research.

You’ll get lists of resources and have time to ask questions and discuss how to best use what you are learning.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe advances in scholarly communication
• Locate resources for publishing in innovative ways
• Explain how new methods of scholarly publishing impact openness and rigor

Audience

All health information professionals with an interest in scholarly communication, especially those who work with researchers, support publishing services, or work with patrons to understand scholarly research.

Presenters

Melissa Rethlefsen, AHIP is Executive Director and Professor at the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center at the University of New Mexico. She has published in the areas of open science and reproducibility. Her research interests center on research reproducibility, systematic reviews, and the impact of librarians on reproducibility and review quality.

Stephen Gabrielson is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh’s Health Sciences Library System, in which capacity he supports researchers on the dissemination of all types of research output and works with open access publishing, open science, and the responsible use of research metrics. He is an author of a protocol on Excel data cleaning.

MLA CE: 1.5