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Spring 2023 Schedule

All sessions held via Microsoft Teams on Mondays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

For more information, please visit the Graduate Student Publishing Academy webpage.

Monday, February 20, 2023	Introduction & Experienced Faculty Panel featuring: Dr. Michèle Foster, Professor, College of Education & Human Development Dr. Michael Brandon McCormack, Associate Professor of Pan-African Studies and Comparative Humanities Director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research Dr. Olfa Nasraoui, Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Endowed Chair of E-Commerce, and Founding Director of the Knowledge Discovery and Web Mining Lab Dr. Sunshine Rote, Associate Professor and Interim Director of Research for the Raymond A. Kent School of Social Work and Family Science Dr. Sherri L. Wallace, Professor of Political Science, Interim Dean of Diversity, Engagement, Culture & Climate
Monday, February 27, 2023	The Scholarly Publishing Landscape: Journal Metrics, Copyright, & Open Access featuring: Dwayne K. Buttler, J.D., Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communications Professor, University Libraries Sarah Drerup, Engineering Librarian, Department of Research Assistance and Instruction, University Libraries Sarah Frankel, Open Access and Repository Coordinator
Monday, March 6, 2023	Writing for Publication & Navigating Peer Review featuring: Dr. Bronwyn T. Williams, Professor of English, Endowed Chair in Rhetoric & Composition, & Director of the University Writing Center
Monday, March 20, 2023	Dissertations, Theses, & Early Career Publishing Strategies featuring: Dr. Natalie Christian, Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Calvin Coker, Assistant Professor of Communications Dr. M. Ruth Dike, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Dr. Shelby Pumphrey, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Monday, March 27, 2023	Current Trends in Scholarly Publishing Lightning Talks, Wrap Up, & Reflection "How Many of Us Are There?: On DEI In Publishing" by Courtney Shareef, Strategic Initiatives Librarian Collaborative Publishing by Robert Detmering, Head of RAI, and Lidiya Grote, Social Sciences Teaching and Faculty Outreach Librarian Grants in Publishing by Sarah Drerup, Engineering Librarian "I Get By With A Little Help From... AI?" by Tessa Withorn, Science Librarian

Supplementary Reading List

Peruse this "reading list" of articles, videos, podcasts, and more for an overview of the contemporary scholarly publishing landscape.

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
This one-hour documentary argues the need for open access to research and science by examining the profitability of for-profit academic publishers.
The Journal That Couldn't Stop Citing Itself
Written by Tom Bartlett for The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2015, this article describes an interesting instance where a journal's metrics is brought into question.
AI and Scholarly Publishing: A View From Three Experts
Published by The Scholarly Kitchen, this recap of a webinar titled "Ask the Experts: AI and Scholarly Publishing" discusses the role of technology in the industry.
The Path Toward Open Access: Backgrounds and Defining 'Open'
Part 1of a 4-part series examining the context of open access in STEM for researchers and publishers. Links to Parts 2-4 available.
The Strategies of 'Getting it Out the Door': Personal Finance Articles Applied to Writing for Scholarly Publishing
Published by the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, this article discusses strategic approaches to scholarly publishing goals.

Recent Research Reel

Scholarly communications of panelists and presenters published within the last five years.

Dr. Michèle Foster
Foster, Michèle, et al. “The Heuristic for Thinking about Culturally Responsive Teaching (Hitcrit).” Multicultural Perspectives, vol. 22, no. 2, 2020, pp. 68–78., https://doi.org/10.1080/15210960.2020.1741370.
Dr. Olfa Nasraoui
Damak, Khalil, Sami Khenissi, and Olfa Nasraoui. "Debiasing the Cloze Task in Sequential Recommendation with Bidirectional Transformers." Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 2022.
Dr. Michael Brandon McCormack
McCormack, Michael Brandon. “Left to Their Own Devices.” The Black Scholar, vol. 52, no. 3, 2022, pp. 52–62., https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2022.2079069.
Dr. Sunshine M. Rote
Rote, Sunshine M., et al. “Exploring Coping Strategies and Barriers in Dementia Care: A Mixed-Methods Study of African American Family Caregivers in Kentucky.” Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol. 41, no. 8, 2022, pp. 1851–1859., https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648221093618.
Dr. Sherri L. Wallace
Wallace, Sherri L. “Review of Teaching Civic Engagement across the Disciplines.” Journal of Political Science Education, vol. 15, no. 4, 2019, pp. 552–555., https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2018.1536554.

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Dr. Natalie Christian
Robinson, Jennifer Meta, et al. “Who Am I? How I Reconciled My Identity as a Woman in Science and Education Through Pedagogy Courses and Evidence-Based Teaching.” Teaching as If Learning Matters: Pedagogies of Becoming by next-Generation Faculty, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2022, pp. 54–60.
Dr. Calvin Coker
Coker, Calvin Richard, and Rachael Ane Coker. “On (Not) Seeing the Chicken: Perdue, Animal Welfare, and the Failure of Transparency.” Communication Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 2, Apr. 2022, pp. 161–80. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2026993.
Dr. M. Ruth Dike
Dike, M. Ruth. “‘The Machine Does It!’: Using Convenience Technologies to Analyze Care, Reproductive Labor, Gender, and Class in Urban Morocco.” Economic Anthropology, vol. 8, no. 2, 2021, pp. 311–325., https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12214.
Dr. Shelby Pumphrey
Pumphrey, Shelby. Finding Asylum : Race, Gender and Confinement in Virginia, 1885-1930. 2020. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat09242a&AN=msuc.b135838575&site=eds-live.

Spring 2023 Publishing Academy Planning Team

The Publishing Academy is managed by the Graduate School and directed by the University Libraries’ Department of Research Assistance and Instruction (RAI). This year’s planning team and session co-facilitators include: