This week, we highlight a live session exploring how to better engage patients in publishing as well as a podcast on the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting. We read about a reporter investigation into predatory conferences and reflect on how to make OA publishing more affordable. Finally, we reflect on how Springer Nature’s OA initiatives continue to deliver high-impact publications in the research community and on its success in global expansion.
To engage with:
Patient engagement in publishing
Tune into Karger Publishers’ second LinkedIn Live session, in which Nicky Greenhalgh (patient advocate) and Francesca Brazzorotto (Customer Engagement Manager at Karger Publishers) will discuss patient engagement in health science publishing. The discussion will delve into the active role of patients in transforming and remodelling the world of health science publishing. This live session will take place on 28 August at 16:00 CEST.
To listen to:
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast via The Scholarly Kitchen | 27-minute listen
In this episode, the hosts hold a conversation about the 2024 Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting with the meeting attendees. Hear their views on different aspects of scholarly communication, including publishing in the age of mistrust and the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on research integrity.
To read:
Staying alert to predatory conferences via Nature | 6-minute read
How can we stop predatory conferences from taking advantage of researchers in the early stages of their careers? Following a Nature investigation, this article summarizes potential solutions, which can ultimately be distilled down to one crucial need in the research community – de-incentivising predatory conferences at the outset by increasing networking opportunities for early career researchers. This, the authors hope, will reduce the incidence of researchers falling prey to the predatory conferences prowling in our midst.
Barriers to OA publishing for researchers via Science | 27-minute read
While open access (OA) publishing heralds the promise of equity, article-processing charges (APCs) for publishing OA in top-tier journals can present an insurmountable hurdle to authors from lower-income countries. While publishers are actively trying to solve this issue, there is currently no obvious answer in sight. Instead, it may be more useful to “think about these financial transactions in a way that has collective – not just personal or organizational – benefit”, as Malavika Legge (Program Manager for the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) puts it.
Making the best impact with OA publishing via Springer Nature | 5-minute read
Springer Nature appraises how its OA strategies and proposals have increased the visibility of authors’ publications over the past 3 years in its 2023 OA Report. Publicly shared data reveals how publishing OA with Springer Nature is associated with a wider readership and more citations. The report also delineates Springer Nature’s approach to supporting equitable OA research by amplifying the use of transformative agreements and providing APC waivers to authors in lower-income countries.
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