Only You Can Prevent Research Integrity Fires!: What Practices Contribute to Improving Research Integrity and how can you Help?

Research communications has a role to play in ensuring the integrity of the research ecosystem. Whether you work on editorial practices, production, or even post-production, there are numerous checks and processes that can be applied to ensure the validity of content. Importantly, this landscape is rapidly evolving and new tools for ensuring overall quality of the scholarly record. Integrity supporting tools, such as CrossRef's Retractions Watch dataset, the STM Integrity Hub and NISO's new Recommended Practice on Communications of Retractions and Expressions of Concern (CREC) can all help keep your corner of the research ecosystem safe. Learn more about these tools during this critically important session on the safety of your authors' research-content. Don't let the spark of some bad practice cause a four-alarm fire in your organization. Remember: Only you can prevent research integrity fires! Foundational: Focus on awareness and relaying information; appropriate for those with limited experience of the subject seeking introductory understanding of the content area(s).

Publication Date

2024 June

46th Annual Meeting

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"Inflection Point: Setting the Course for the Future of Scholarly Communication" Huge growth in proposals and publications, a greater focus on researchers as both author and reader, evolving open access publishing models, and the urgent need for equity and inclusion are disrupting traditional publishing infrastructure and processes. In addition, the explosive capabilities of artificial intelligence will likely disrupt every facet of scholarly communication, but represent both opportunities and threats. We are at an inflection point—our decisions will determine both the value we deliver as an industry, as well as the values we reflect as a community.