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Upcoming NFAIS Event: Open Access: The Role and Impact of Preprint Services

  • 1.  Upcoming NFAIS Event: Open Access: The Role and Impact of Preprint Services

    Posted Mon November 04, 2019 04:00 PM

    The Information Community Needs Your Input! Please Join Us in Washington, DC.

     Please join with a variety of stakeholders in exploring the use of preprints and identifying the next steps needed to usefully integrate this form of communication in the world of scholarship and research. We want you in the room for this collaborative, cross-sector event! 

    Open Access: The Role and Impact of Preprint Services

    An NFAIS Foresight Event, sponsored by NISO

    Event Dates: Thursday, November 14 – Friday, November 15, 2019

    Meeting Venue: American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington DC

    Confirmed participants include, among others:

    • Kent Anderson, Founder, Caldera Publishing Solutions,
    • Angela Cochran, Managing Director and Publisher, ASCE, 
    • Kathryn Funk, PubMed Central, and Jeff Beck, Literature Program, NCBI, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
    • Gerry Grenier, Senior Director, Content Management, IEEE
    • Gregg Gordon, Managing Director, SSRN.
    • Thomas Narock, Assistant Professor, Integrative Data Analytics, Goucher College
    • Jessica Polka, Executive Director, ASAPBio
    • Oya Rieger, Senior Advisor, Ithaka S & R
    • Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR, 
    • Tyler Walters, Dean of Libraries, Virginia Tech; 
    • Erini Wiringi, Director, Marketing Communications & Community Development, American Chemical Society

     Preprint servers and services are actively embraced by a broad range of research communities in North America. The point of this two-day, on-site event is to enable participants to engage in a cross-sector discussion of how best to integrate preprint services into existing research processes. Participate in identifying potential issues and existing gaps that impede researcher workflow. Scheduled small group discussions will allow attendees to better understand specific community needs and identify mechanisms that will satisfy those needs. What's working? What's not? Attend this NISO Foresight event and help the community to further open access just that little bit more!

     Here is what just one of our presenters will be addressing:

     Title: The Unfunded Mandate of Compliance

     During the last decade, we've witnessed the emergence of public access policies by a range of governmental and private funding agencies to open up scholarly outputs that result from funded research projects. This presentation explores the potential role of preprint services in fulfilling such mandates, and discusses implications from the perspective of stakeholders such as authors, readers, funders, publishers, and libraries. Preprint services aim to ensure the rapid dissemination of research results and facilitate open access for broad and unlimited distribution. How does this vision intersect with emerging public access mandates and requirements? At a global level, funding agencies continue to be uneven in their approaches and policies in regard to publication repositories, technical and metadata standards, and other compliance and enforcement related specifications. Given the evolving nature of the landscape, what are the implications of preprint servers becoming a part of the compliance infrastructure?  What are the consequences from a sustainability perspective?

     Registration:  Fee includes a continental breakfast, a working lunch and three coffee breaks.

    NISO Member Organization: $285.00; Non-NISO-Member: $335.00; Student: $110.00.

     Want to register immediately using a credit card? Use this form.

     Need a hotel? There is no hotel block associated with this event. Choose whichever location that best fits your budget!

     Have Questions? Get in touch! 

    NISO

    3600 Clipper Mill Road

    Suite 302

    Baltimore, MD 21211-1948

    Phone: +1.301.654.2512

    Email: nisohq@niso.org

     

     



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    Alice Meadows
    Director of Communications
    ORCID
    Brookline MA
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