Community Standards and Recommendations Supporting Open Scholarship: A Host of Benefits for All

The Open scholarship movement is working to make scholarly outputs and processes accessible and reusable. By now, many—if not most—organizations support these principles and include open scholarship strategies in their own products and services. SSP participants work for dozens of different organizations with their own programs and plans, but we should connect with each other and collaborate to boost individual efficiencies in this area by creating and adopting community-based standards and recommendations. This session will highlight a number of NISO efforts, such as CRediT, Peer Review Taxonomy, and Publisher-Repository Interoperability, where diverse stakeholders have gathered to create standard solutions that advance open scholarship concepts and produce platforms for open scholarship advancements. As organizations collaborate with each other on standards initiatives, they are also supporting their employees in practical networking: making further connections with diverse interests, gaining technical education, and advancing and enriching careers. || Learning Level: Applied || Speakers: Nettie Lagace; Alison McGonagle-O'Connell; Anna Jester; Gerry Grenier

SSP Annual Meeting Session Learning Level

Applied

Publication Date

2022 | Jun 02

44th Annual Meeting (2022)

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“Building a More Connected Scholarly Community” The last 19+ months have been a fascinating contradiction, making us feel both painfully disconnected and also perhaps more bonded than ever before. How can we take the strengths we already possessed as a community, fold in lessons learned during the pandemic, and aim for being an even stronger, broader, and more connected community? Our Annual Meeting brings together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, and countless others with a communal interest and stake in the dissemination of scholarly information. We look forward to the 44th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to reconnect and to connect anew.

Alison McGonagle-O'Connell

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Founder and Consultant, O'Connell Consulting

Alison is an experienced marketing professional with two decades of experience in the publishing industry, including 10 years marketing scholarly communications infrastructure solutions. Alison presently leads O'Connell Consulting, and her prior roles have included marketing leadership at HighWire, Atypon, Coko, and Aries, and content development and management at Wiley and Houghton Mifflin. Alison is an active volunteer in industry initiatives including the CRediT Standing Committee in partnership with NISO.

Anna Jester

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Vice President of Sales & Marketing, eJournal Press

Anna Jester is Vice President of Sales & Marketing at eJournalPress. Working for a software company providing highly customizable manuscript submission and peer review, production tracking, and billing systems leads to many fascinating conversations, generally including multiple acronyms or terms like Read & Publish. Anna enjoys dialogue about functionality and workflows, providing demonstrations and presentations, and attending industry meetings. She volunteers as a member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Membership Committee and the NISO Peer Review Terminology Working Group, is a Past President of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) and serves on the Science Editor Editorial Board.

Gerry Grenier

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Business Development, Cadmore Media

Nettie Lagace

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Associate Executive Director, NISO

Nettie Lagace is the Associate Executive Director at NISO, where she is responsible for facilitating the work of NISO’s topic committees and development groups for standards and best practices, and working with the community to encourage broad adoption of this consensus work. Prior to joining NISO in 2011, Nettie worked for a library software vendor, where she served for 11 years as project training librarian and product manager. She holds a M.I.L.S. from the University of Michigan.