Title: Successful biogeography publishing as authors, reviewers, and editors
Part I (morning session): Navigating publishing as a new(ish) author
Part II (afternoon session): Effective reviewing and editing
Participants may attend both sessions or only one session.
Organizers: Michael Dawson, Tom Matthews, Helena Tukiainen
Additional participants: Associate and chief editors from a range of journals publishing biogeographical research, journal managers, and librarians will participate in the panel sessions, help facilitate active learning exercises, and be available for Q&A.
Duration: 9-12 a.m. and 13-16 p.m.
Content
Current changes in scientific publishing are among the most radical in >350 years and the range of publishing options is expanding. Publisher-owned journals often dominate and increasing Article Processing Charges coupled with the continued expansion of fully Open Access threaten to leave authors and institutions with few affordable options. These changes increase inequity among more- versus less-wealthy researchers, institutions, and countries. This workshop will discuss strategies for successfully navigating the increasingly complicated publishing landscape from the point of view of different roles: author, reviewer, and editor. It will also focus on strategies for supporting a more sustainable and community-oriented publishing infrastructure. Activities will seek input from participants on these issues — and others raised during the workshop based on their concerns, experiences, and aspirations for how they would like scientific publishing to change — to better support them in the future. The workshop will be delivered in two sessions. Each session has three ~1hr segments: first a range of panelists respond to questions from the ECR participants, second the ECRs work in groups to identify their concerns and priorities, third the organizers give a thematic presentation oriented toward the issues raised by the ECRs. Each session will wrap up with an open discussion of any remaining issues of interest.
The first session, during the morning, will be oriented primarily to earlier-stage Early Career Researchers who have few or no publications (typically graduate students); the goals will be to describe journal options (including covering the different ownership, publication, and funding models), explain all stages of the publication process, share tips for getting a manuscript accepted, and getting your work noticed. The focus of the session is on navigating the journal publication process rather than on manuscript writing itself.
The second session, during the afternoon, will be oriented to later-stage Early Career Researchers (primarily recent graduates and postdocs) who are interested in reviewing and editing; the goals include strategies to contribute positively to peer review, how to support an ethical publishing environment (including covering different ownership, publication, and funding models), and how to become associate editors.
