RCN-UBE: Cell Biology Education Consortium: Pathway to Publication

细胞生物学教育联盟：出版之路（CBEC: P2P）研究合作网络旨在帮助主要本科院校（PUI）的教师在同行评议的期刊上发表研究。在公共事业大学，进行和发表研究可能是一项挑战，因为教师的教学责任要与本科生和研究团队的指导相平衡。该项目将通过帮助教师从他们的数据中准备个位数的手稿来解决这种出版脱节，推动教师和学生走上出版之路。通过减少出版障碍，教师可以帮助学生掌握手稿准备过程，同时生成自己的出版记录，这将有助于职业发展。总的来说，这将有助于教师建立他们的研究证书，并允许本科生和教师成为公认的科学期刊上发表文章的作者。本项目建立的基础设施支持加强、扩展和可持续的本科细胞生物学相关研究。总体而言，开发免费获取的资源，突出明确的出版路径，可以改善STEM管道，有助于留住PUI教师，并将成为其他学科的典范。该项目满足了细胞生物学教育者的需求，即尽管本科研究的质量很高，但教师通常没有时间生成在需要多个结果数据的传统科学期刊上发表研究所需的大量数据。在这里，将为CBEC的教师和学生开发一个发表路径的工作流程，结果是在microPublication Biology（一个完全可引用的期刊平台）上发表一篇个位数的研究论文。这个工作流程将是一个循序渐进的机制，允许CBEC: P2P教师向网络领导者提交一篇个位数的论文，接收反馈，重新提交进一步的评论，并最终提交他们的工作发表在microPublication Biology上。为了进一步提高研究成果，CBEC: P2P还将帮助教师将他们基于课堂的研究与出版工作流程相结合。开发的协议将作为开放教育资源与他人免费共享。该项目由生物基础设施部生物科学理事会和本科教育司STEM教育理事会共同资助，作为他们应对本科生物学教育的愿景和变化：行动呼吁（http://visionandchange/finalreport/）和刺激竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）所提出的挑战的一部分。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。

The Cell Biology Education Consortium: Path to Publication (CBEC: P2P) research collaborative network is intended to assist primarily undergraduate institution (PUI) faculty with publishing research in a peer-reviewed journal. Conducting and publishing research can be challenging at PUIs where high faculty teaching responsibilities are balanced with mentoring of undergraduate research students and teams. This project will address this publication disconnect by helping faculty prepare single-figure manuscripts from their data, advancing faculty and their students on a pathway to publication. By reducing barriers to publication, faculty can help students take ownership of the manuscript preparation process while generating their own publication record that will help with career advancement. Collectively, this will help faculty build their research credentials and allow undergraduate students and faculty to become published authors in a recognized scientific journal. The infrastructure established by this project supports the enhancement, expansion, and sustainability of undergraduate cell biology-related research. Overall, the development of freely accessible resources that highlight a clear path to publication improves the STEM pipeline, helps to retain PUI faculty, and will serve as a model for other disciplines. This project addresses a need expressed by cell biology educators that while the quality of undergraduate research is high, faculty often do not have the time to generate the extensive data required to publish research in traditional scientific journals requiring multiple result figures. Here a workflow for a path to publication for CBEC faculty and students will be developed that results in publication of a single-figure research paper in microPublication Biology, a fully citable journal platform. This workflow will be a step-by-step mechanism that allows CBEC: P2P faculty to submit a single-figure paper to network leaders, receive feedback, resubmit for further comments, and ultimately submit their work for publication in microPublication Biology. To further enhance research success, CBEC: P2P will also help faculty align their class-based research with the path to publication workflow. The protocols developed will be freely shared with others as open education resources. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for STEM Education, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/), and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.