Conference: Equity and Inclusion in Open Access Publishing: Workshop to explore barriers and solutions

会议：开放获取出版的公平和包容性：探讨障碍和解决方案的研讨会

• 批准号: 2209643
• 负责人: Adrienne Sponberg
• 金额: $ 9.95万
• 依托单位: Ecological Society of America
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2209643&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Equity; Inclusion; Open; Access

Three significant and intertwined changes in the ecological research landscape are occurring: new commitments to removing barriers that exclude scientists of diverse backgrounds, availability of open data streams, and a shift towards Open Access (OA) publishing through author-pays models. Given the importance of scholarly publishing in hiring and promotion, barriers to publishing could undermine or negate other interventions and programs to recruit and retain diverse scholars in environmental biology. Therefore, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) proposes a community survey and a workshop to explore barriers to full participation of a wide diversity of Ecology and Environmental Biology scientists in publishing research, with particular attention to potential impacts of the shift to Open Access publishing models. The objectives of this workshop and community survey are to 1) raise awareness of the intersection between open science and diversity, equity, and inclusion, 2) evaluate the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in publishing (including identifying data gaps), 3) gather data about potential barriers to publishing Open Access, and 4) provide a forum for stakeholders to identify solutions to potential barriers. The goals of the workshop are to convene society and publishing leaders to examine the current status of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the publishing process, to explore rising concerns that transitioning to Open Access could exacerbate inequalities in scholarly publishing and to discuss strategies to alleviate financial burden associated with publishing. This workshop will have significant broader impact on the Ecology and Environmental Biology community by 1) Facilitating networking and conversation around diversity, equity, and inclusion in publishing in the Ecology and Environmental Biology society and publishing leaders, 2) Providing additional data on the impact of author publishing charges and how the charges affect authors’ decisions on where and when to publish, 3) Identifying best practices and pitfalls when moving towards fully Open Access publishing models, and 4) Identifying characteristics of different funding models to support authors publishing Open Access articles.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

生态研究领域正在发生三个相互交织的重大变化：消除将不同背景的科学家排除在外的障碍的新承诺，开放数据流的可用性，以及通过作者付费模式转向开放获取(OA)出版。鉴于学术出版在招聘和晋升方面的重要性，出版障碍可能会破坏或否定招募和留住环境生物学领域不同学者的其他干预措施和计划。因此，美国生态学会(ESA)提出了一项社区调查和一次研讨会，以探索各种生态和环境生物学科学家充分参与发表研究的障碍，并特别关注向开放获取出版模式转变的潜在影响。这次讲习班和社区调查的目的是：1)提高对开放科学与多样性、公平和包容性之间的交集的认识；2)评估出版业的多样性、公平性和包容性的现状(包括确定数据差距)；3)收集有关出版开放获取的潜在障碍的数据；以及4)为利益攸关方提供一个论坛，以确定解决潜在障碍的办法。讲习班的目标是召集社会和出版界领袖，审查出版过程中多样性、公平和包容性的现状，探讨向开放获取过渡可能加剧学术出版不平等的日益加剧的关切，并讨论减轻与出版相关的财政负担的战略。该研讨会将通过以下方式对生态与环境生物学社区产生重大而广泛的影响：1)促进生态与环境生物学协会和出版业领袖围绕出版的多样性、公平性和包容性进行联网和对话，2)提供更多关于作者出版费用的影响以及费用如何影响作者在哪里和何时发表的决定的数据，3)确定转向完全开放获取出版模式时的最佳做法和陷阱，以及4)确定支持作者发表开放获取文章的不同资助模式的特点。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。