(via Isabella Baxter, University of Maryland)
Registration is now open for the webinar “Scientific Publishing and the Pandemic”. This webinar is part of the ACRL Science & Technology Section’s Hot Topics series. Please see below for more information.
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a rapid proliferation of scientific output, with the release of many pre-prints, datasets, and scholarly articles, as well as the popular articles that discuss them. With the output of articles retractions and misinformation also followed. The STS Hot Topics Committee will host a discussion session to examine changes to scientific publishing and communication practices during the pandemic.
The discussion session will feature brief talks and multiple breakout sections for participants to discuss impacts to our own work. Our speakers will be the following.
- Ms. Julia Gelfand, Applied Sciences & Engineering Librarian at the University of California Irvine. She will be speaking on “STEM Publishing Lessons Learned from the Pandemic: New Practices for Libraries & Publishers”.
- Dr. Jodi Schneider, Assistant Professor of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She will be speaking on retractions in publications during the pandemic.
Please join us via Zoom on Tuesday, June 7, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM CDT. Register in advance for this meeting here. Speaker presentations will be recorded. Breakout room and general discussions will not be recorded.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions regarding this event, please e-mail the ACRL STS Hot Topics Committee Co-Chairs, Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) and Mike Goates (michael_goates@byu.edu).