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重大而相互交织的变化：新的承诺，以消除排除不同背景的科学家的障碍，开放数据流的可用性，以及通过作者付费模式向开放获取（OA）出版的转变。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其他干预措施和计划，以招募和留住环境生物学领域的不同学者。因此，美国生态学会（ESA）提出了一项社区调查和一个研讨会，以探讨各种生态学和环境生物学科学家充分参与出版研究的障碍，特别关注转向开放获取出版模式的潜在影响。本次研讨会和社区调查的目标是：1）提高对开放科学与多样性、公平和包容性之间交叉点的认识; 2）评估出版中多样性、公平和包容性的现状（包括确定数据差距）; 3）收集关于出版开放获取的潜在障碍的数据; 4）为利益相关者提供一个论坛，以确定潜在障碍的解决方案。研讨会的目标是召集社会和出版领导人，研究出版过程中的多样性，公平性和包容性的现状，探讨日益关注的问题，即过渡到开放获取可能会加剧学术出版的不平等，并讨论减轻与出版相关的财务负担的策略。本次研讨会将通过以下方式对生态与环境生物学社区产生更广泛的影响：1）促进生态与环境生物学社会和出版领导者围绕多样性，公平性和包容性的网络和对话，2）提供有关作者出版费用影响的额外数据以及费用如何影响作者关于何时何地出版的决定，3）在迈向完全开放获取出版模式时识别最佳实践和陷阱，以及4）识别不同资助模式的特征，以支持作者出版开放获取文章。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。