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

生态研究领域正在发生三个相互交织的重大变化：消除排斥不同背景科学家的障碍的新承诺，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各种学者。因此，美国生态学会（ESA）提出了一项社区调查和一个研讨会，以探讨广泛的生态和环境生物学科学家充分参与出版研究的障碍，特别关注向开放获取出版模式转变的潜在影响。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、公平性和包容性之间交叉的认识；2)评估出版中多样性、公平性和包容性的现状（包括识别数据差距）；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界的领导者来研究出版过程中多样性、公平性和包容性的现状，探讨向开放获取过渡可能加剧学术出版不平等的日益增长的担忧，并讨论减轻与出版相关的经济负担的策略。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协会和出版领导者围绕出版多样性、公平和包容性的网络和对话；2)提供关于作者出版收费影响的额外数据，以及收费如何影响作者对出版地点和时间的决定；3)确定向完全开放获取出版模式转变时的最佳实践和陷阱；4)确定不同资助模式的特征，以支持作者发表开放获取文章。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.