Open Scholarship & Scholarly Publishing

The Scholarly Communication Office is offering the following workshops related to Open Scholarship & Scholarly Publishing. For a full list of Library Workshops, see the events calendar.

Spring 2024

• February 13th - Using SciENcv for your NSF grant applications. Registration

• February 26th - Tools for Managing Your Scholarly Identity: Building & Maintaining Your ORCiD Profile. Registration

• February 29th  - Current issues in scholarly publishing: an overview. Registration

• March 13th - Tools for Managing Your Scholarly Identity: Building & Maintaining Your ORCiD Profile. Registration

• March 14th - Open access, peer review and predatory publishing: can you have the first two without the third?. Registration

• March 27th - Current issues in scholarly publishing: an overview. Registration

• April 9th - Tools for Managing Your Scholarly Identity: Building & Maintaining Your ORCiD Profile. Registration

Current issues in scholarly publishing: an overview  

Scholarly publishing is quickly evolving from print-based journal and book workflows and formats to more dynamic, network-based, open practices and platforms. For those who are new or experienced with scholarly publishing in any discipline, come with your questions and observations to this discussion about choosing a conference, publisher or platform; co-authorship; ethical and predatory publishing; peer review; open scholarship; research integrity; and impact indicators. We’ll also address how the Libraries are providing financial and other support for open access publishing.

Christine Turner & Sarah Fitzgerald

Open access, peer review and predatory publishing: can you have the first two without the third?

Answer: YES!! Open access refers to who can use scholarly works free of charge and how scholarly publishing is funded, not the scholarship’s quality or rigor. Open access publishing provides citation and impact advantages to authors and barrier-free access to users. However, some open access "publishers" use “author pays” models to reap profits while disregarding ethical publishing practices, peer review and quality. We’ll outline the attributes of high-quality open access publishing and the warning signs of shady publishers. With this information, you can gain the benefits of OA publishing and enhance your scholarly reputation. Proposed for grad students, faculty and staff.

Christine Turner and Lisa di Valentino

Tools for Managing Your Scholarly Identity: Building & Maintaining Your ORCiD Profile

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a free, unique, persistent and universal digital identifier that improves recognition and discoverability for you and your research outputs. Think of it as a digital curriculum vitae (CV) that you can share across the globe. Many publishers and funders require it. For those who have an ORCiD ID (https://orcid.org/), this workshop provides dedicated time to review and expand your profile with librarian guidance.

Note #1: ORCID registration is required for doctoral dissertation and masters theses submissions to ScholarWorks.

Note #2: We encourage you to obtain an ORCiD ID before the workshop. Guidance is available: https://guides.library.umass.edu/ScholarlyPublishing/ORCiD

Christine Turner

Using SciENcv for your NSF grant applications

In October 2023, the National Science Foundation started to require that grant applicants use SciENcv to generate their biographical sketch and current and pending files. Learn how to efficiently create, populate and maintain these files using SciENcv, NCBI, ORCID and other tools. Note: SciENcv is also used for NIH grant applications.

Rebecca Reznik Zellen and Christine Turner