NISO Webinar: Ensuring the Scholarly Record: The Scholarly Retractions, Scientific Reproducibility, and the Role of Publishers and Libraries

Date: January 13, 2015
Time: 1pm - 2:30pm (EST)
Event Webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2016/webinars/jan13_webinar/

About the Webinar:

Science is often referred to as a self-correcting system and scholarly communications are meant to play an important role in that process. By describing the work that has been undertaken, others can verify the work by replicating it, testing its validity, and applying it in their own work, thereby building upon it. Recently, questions have arisen about the scholarly record, with revelations about false data, erroneous processes, and irreproducible research.

Are there problems with the peer review process that are allowing more faulty research into publication? Is the availability and discoverability of content making it simply more visible to the scholarly marketplace? Once content is retracted, what practices should be implemented to identify retracted materials as such? How is retraction information communicated and are corrections to the scholarly record connected in an obvious way? This webinar will explore ways in which scholars, publishers and libraries are working to ensure the trustworthiness of the scholarly record.

Topics and Confirmed Speakers:

• Retractions, Post-Publication Peer Review and Fraud: Scientific Publishing’s Wild West -- Ivan Oransky, Co-Founder, Retraction Watch

• Life After Publication – Reproducibility Challenges and the Role of Publishers -- Veronique Viermer, Executive Editor, Public Library of Science

• Trust Through Transparency -- Why the Quality (and Quantity) of Publishers' Metadata Matters -- Kirsti Meddings, Product Manager, CrossRef
  

Registration:

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on May 20, 2015 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. This partner webinar is not a part of the NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) member benefit, so registration is required for LSA members. Registration is for a site one.

All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year.

Visit the event webpage to register and for more information:  http://www.niso.org/news/events/2016/webinars/jan13_webinar/