ALPSP WEBINAR: 'Making the case for embracing microPublications: Are they a way forward for scholarly publishing?'
Wednesday June 26.
For decades researchers have been working with the pressures of 'publish or perish'. The default response is to question the value of microPublications that are produced as a result. But what about when microPublications are carefully defined; peer review is stringently completed; and they enable publishers to more efficiently produce the 'longer story' research articles with pre-validated research outputs?
Are there largely unknown opportunities and values to be gained quickly? Can microPublications enable synthesizing and distilling of information and integrate this information in established repositories to create a more meaningful and greater corpus of knowledge - dare we say, global knowledgebase?
The webinar will be chaired by Heather Staines, Head of Partnerships, MIT Knowledge Futures Group.
And our speakers will be:
- Daniela Raciti, Scientific Curator for Wormbase and Managing Editor, microPublication Biology
- Karen Yook, Scientific Curator for Wormbase and Managing Editor, microPublication Biology
- Tracey DePellegrin, Executive Director, Genetics Society of America
Daniela and Karen will be telling us about their experiences: "A significant proportion of useful research output is not published in a timely fashion -- or ever -- because of the pressure to publish complete narratives. In addition, the effort, and hence cost, of curation at archival repositories can be inhibitory to getting these data into publicly-funded community knowledge bases. We are capturing these ‘lost’ data through both publishing the findings as microPublications in a new online journal, microPublication Biology and depositing it into archival repositories. Our platform encourages researchers to share data in a metadata-driven fashion by giving them credit for participation through a citable publication that is peer-reviewed".
When and who?
Time: 11.00-12:00 EDT, 17:00-18:00 CEST, 08:00-09:00 PDT, 16:00-17:00 BST
Ideal for: publishing executives, editors, librarians, funders and researchers.
Costs
ALPSP Members: £50 + VAT per person
Non-members: £85 + VAT per person
>>> Find out more about the speakers and book this webinar <<<
https://www.alpsp.org/Webinars/Micropublications/65916
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