Access to Scientific Publications

This webinar series has concluded. Please contact us (info below) for more information.

The Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) and the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) are pleased to share our plan to present a series of online (virtual/digital/web-based) conversations on Access to Scientific Publications. This series of three sessions will focus on the topic of Open Access.

Feel free to contact either Juliane Baron of FABBS at (jbaron@fabbs.org) or Cindy Paska of CSSP (cpaska@sciencepresidents.org) with questions. 

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Access to Scientific Publications: The ‘Holdren memo’ – current federal guidance – Wednesday, July 8, 12:30 pm ET

• Michael Stebbins
  Visiting Scholar, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard
  President, Science Advisors LLC

Supplemental materials:

• Report and Recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (January 2010)
• Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research, “the Holdren memo” – OSTP (February 22, 2013)
• Additional Actions Needed to Improve Public Access to Research Results – GAO (November 2019)
• Advancing Open Science Practices: Stakeholder Perspectives on Incentives and Disincentives: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief – NASEM (February 2020)

Access to Scientific Publications: Stakeholder perspectives on scientific journals – Wednesday, July 15, 12:30 pm ET

• Rick Anderson
  Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication
  Librarian Marriott Library, University of Utah
  (slides)
• David Mellor
  Open Access Director of Policy Initiatives, Center for Open Science
  (slides)
• David Ross
  Vice President of Open Research, SAGE Publishing
  (slides)

Supplemental materials:

• “Make it possible, make it rewarded, make it normal” – DORA, David Mellor (October 2, 2019)
• “Reforming Research Assessment: A Tough Nut to Crack” – The Scholarly Kitchen (February 18, 2020)

Access to Scientific Publications: Creative models for publishing – Wednesday, July 29, 12:30 pm ET

• Stefano Bertuzzi
  Chief Executive Officer, American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
• Ben Corb
  Director of Public Affairs, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
• Beth Craanen
  Director of Publications, Electrochemical Society (ECS)
  (slides)