Description

This interactive workshop will provide graduate students and early career researchers with the knowledge needed to navigate today's increasingly complicated journal publishing landscape.

Current changes in academic publishing are among the most rapid and radical in the past 350 years. Though publishing options have expanded, costs threaten to leave authors and institutions with few affordable options due to increased Article Processing Charges (APCs) coupled with fees to publish fully Open Access (OA).

In conversation with UC Merced faculty with perspectives as authors, editors, and reviewers, participants will learn about scholarly publishing, including how journals are owned, funded, and operated. They will become familiar with each stage of the publication process and learn practical strategies for getting their work published. During discussions, participants will also discuss their publishing goals, concerns, and experiences, consider strategies to support a more sustainable and community-focused scholarly publishing system, and share aspirations for the future of academic publishing.

The focus is on understanding the journal publishing landscape and navigating the publishing process rather than manuscript writing.

Workshop Format

• Hour 1: Panel discussion and participant Q&A
• Hour 2: Small-group discussions on publishing goals, priorities, and concerns
• Hour 3: Presentations addressing themes and questions identified by participants

Faculty Moderator

• Michael Dawson, Professor, Life & Environmental Sciences

Faculty Panelists

• Ashlie Martini, Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
• Kevin Mitchell, Professor, Physics
• Alex Petersen, Associate Professor, Management of Complex Systems

Target Audience

• Graduate students and other early career researchers, with few or no publications

Event Sponsors

• This workshop is sponsored by the UC Merced Library, Graduate Division, and PEEER (Publishing for an Ethical and Equitable Environment in Research).

Light refreshments will be served.

RSVPs are required. Please RSVP by Sunday, October 18. We have capacity for 36 participants.

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Faculty Bios

Mike Dawson is a professor in Life & Environmental Sciences.  He has published over 130 articles in research journals, reviewed hundreds of manuscripts for over 50 journals, and been an associate editor for Zootaxa (Magnolia Press); a founding deputy editor-in-chief for a society-owned non-profit journal, Frontiers of Biogeography, published on the University of California’s eScholarship platform; and an associate, deputy and chief editor with the Journal of Biogeography (Wiley). He is currently PI on a NSF funded project to build cross-society cross-journal collaborations that enhance community-oriented change in publishing; this includes a community of thought (PEEER), a free association, and a new scholar-led diamond open access journal: Biogeography Research.

Ashlie Martini is a professor in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. She has published and reviewed manuscripts for many different research journals during her career. She is an Editor of the journal Tribology Letters, an Associate Editor of the journal Tribology Transactions, and on the Editorial Board of the journal Lubricants.

Kevin Mitchell is a professor of Physics and founding faculty, as well as past chair of the academic Senate. He is currently an associate editor of the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS) run by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Alex Petersen is an associate professor in Management of Complex Systems. He has published in various disciplines and open/print research journals, including on the topic of (open-access) megajournals, and has reviewed for journals of a similar wide variety. He is currently an associate editor for a traditional print journal - Advances in Complex Systems (Wiley) - as well the online-only journal PLOS Complex Systems. He actively publishes open-access datasets for his studies on Dryad (formerly UC Dryad), a research data repository and publishing platform that covers submission fees for scholars from the University of California.