CSE 2018 Annual Meeting

A central figure in the controversy over human-caused climate change has been “The Hockey Stick,” a simple, easy-to-understand graph my colleagues and I constructed to depict changes in Earth’s temperature back to 1000 AD. The graph was featured in the high-profile “Summary for Policy Makers” of the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and it quickly became an icon in the debate over human-caused (“anthropogenic”) climate change. I tell the ongoing story behind the Hockey Stick, using it as a vehicle for exploring broader issues regarding the role of skepticism in science, the uneasy relationship between science and politics, and the dangers that arise when special economic interests and those who do their bidding attempt to skew the discourse over policy-relevant areas of science. In short, I attempt to use the Hockey Stick to cut through the fog of disinformation that has been generated by the campaign to deny the reality of climate change. It is my intent, in so doing, to reveal the very real threat to our future that lies behind it.

Dr. Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC).

Mann is the author of several books including his most recent work The Tantrum that Saved the World, a children’s book that talks to kids about what’s happening to our planet, but not scare them senseless at bedtime. He has also authored The Madhouse Effect, Dire Predictions – Understanding Global Warming, and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, which is the basis for his CSE keynote presentation.

Speakers:

• Neil Christensen, MA, Sales Director, Americas, UNSILO
• Sundari Ganapathy, MTech, IIT, Madras, Director, SpiralUp Solutions
• Patti Lockhart, Managing Editor, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
• Yinghao Ma, MA, Software Architect Manager, American Chemical Society

Machines can find patterns in vast amounts of data — the possibilities for how this type of machine learning can be applied are nearly limitless. This session will consider how artificial intelligence could be used to improve authoring, editorial review, peer review, decisioning, and transfer.

Moderator:

Sonja Krane, PhD, Senior Managing Editor, American Chemical Society

Speakers:

• R. Hanson, Executive Vice President, Science, American Geophysical Union
• David Mellor, PhD, Project Manager, Journal and Funder Incentive Programs, TOP Guidelines, Center for Open Science
• Darren Taichman, MD, Executive Editor, American College of Physicians/Annals of Internal Medicine

In the spirit of encouraging faster scientific discovery and making the benefits of science available to all, scientists, policymakers, and funders are now requesting or requiring statements related to sharing of data in research articles. In this session, representatives from three different groups who have coordinated creation of data availability statements within their fields of expertise (physical sciences, biological science, and medicine) discuss the statements created by their groups.

Moderator:

Patricia (Patty) Baskin, MS, Executive Editor, Neurology Journals, American Academy of Neurology

Speakers:

• Brooke LaFlamme, PhD, Chief Editor, Springer Nature
• Richard Sever, PhD, Assistant Director, Cold Spring Harbor Press and Co-Founder, bioRxiv , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Heather Tierney, PhD, Manager, Publication Ethics, American Chemical Society

CSE Editorial Policy Committee Ethics Clinic – The objective of this session is to help inform attendees about pre-print servers and ethics and potential ethical issues surrounding these servers. These servers are a vehicle for quickly sharing information but run the risk of also having the same ethical concerns as traditionally published manuscripts – and perhaps more. Three panel members will discuss their views and present potential cases with reference to pre-print servers to help educate and explore the ethical side to these vehicles of publication. We anticipate and encourage audience participation for this session. Each Panel member will provide cases for the round table audiences to review and discuss.We will also have a member of the Editorial Policy Committee who will share the recent Committee statement regarding pre-print servers to be added to the CSE white paper.

Moderator:

Jennifer Mahar, BA, Executive Peer Review Manager, Origin Editorial

Speakers:

• Mary Billingsley, ELS, Managing Editor, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Stacy Drury, MD, PhD, Associate Director Tulane Brain Institute, Tulane University
• Tonette Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH, Associate Provost for Health Sciences, Tulane University
• Charles Zeanah, MD, Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Tulane University

The peer review process represents a cornerstone of the scientific process. Becoming an effective peer reviewer represents an important milestone not only for academic career trajectories, but can also provide unique insight into the editorial process and enhance ones own success as an author. This workshop will focus on three aspects of the peer review process:

1. Taking your first step toward becoming a peer reviewer.
2. The ins and outs of becoming an editor.
3. How becoming an effective peer reviewer can influence your own scientific writing and success rates for submissions.

Moderators:

Mary Billingsley, ELS, Managing Editor, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Stacy Drury, MD, PhD, Associate Director Tulane Brain Institute, Tulane University

Speakers:

• L. Lee Hamm, MD, Senior Vice President & Dean of the School of Medicine and the James R. Doty Distinguished Professor and Chair, Tulane University School of Medicine
• Kenneth Heideman, MS, Director of Publications, American Meteorological Society
• Shari Leventhal, Managing Editor, American Society of Nephrology
• Sheehan Misko, Director, Publications, American Association for Clinical Chemistry
• Meaghan Phelan, Science Press Package Executive Director, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Speakers will provide their personal insights into how their teams have handled crises. L. Lee Hamm, MD, Senior Vice President & Dean at Tulane University School of Medicine will discuss how he and his team treated patients during Hurricane Katrina. Ken Heideman, Director of Publications, American Meteorological Society; Meagan Phelan, Science Press Package Executive Director, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); and Sheehan Misko, Director, Publications, American Association for Clinical Chemistry will then discuss how their journals and organizations handled their own crises. Presenters’ insights will help participants think ahead and explore ways to mitigate a crisis through a team-oriented approach.

Moderator:

Shari Leventhal, Managing Editor, American Society of Nephrology

Speakers:

• Tim Cross, BA, MM, Business Development Manager, Westchester Publishing Services
• Jennifer Lin, PhD, Director of Product Management, Crossref
• Eric Pesanelli, Editorial Art Manager, American Physiological Society
• Jennifer Pesanelli, CAE, Deputy Executive Director for Operations, FASEB
• Howard Ratner, Executive Director, CHORUS
• Emma Shumeyko, MPS, Publishing, Managing Editor, ASCPT
• Heather Staines, MA, PhD, Director, Partnerships, Hypothes.is

The best questions, and their answers, are often found during informal discussions with others who have encountered the same situations and concerns. This session will provide you with the opportunity to choose from eight topics over multiple 25 minute rounds of discussion. Bring a question, an answer, or just your curiosity.

Topics Include:

• Journal Review Club: Engaging Early Career Members
• CHORUS International Expansion/Updates
• DOIs for Peer Reviews
• Preprints: Policies and Other Thoughts
• Production: Figures and Tables
• Production: Getting the Most from your Vendor
• Annotating All The Things
• Reviewer of the Year Awards

Moderator:

Anna Jester, Director of Sales & Marketing, eJournalPress

Speaker:

• Carissa Gilman, MA, Managing Editor, American Cancer Society
• Darren Taichman, MD, PhD, Executive Editor, American College of Physicians/Annals of Internal Medicine

In this session we plan to focus on ways you can encourage authors to select your journal with the vast number of choices out there. What do you have to offer that your competitors do not? How to set your journal apart, how to go after right potential authors? Hear ways the speakers have been successful and unsuccessful in this endeavor. We also will discuss how journals can help the accepted authors to market their publication by bringing in readers and traffic as well to web site through social media and other methods.

Moderator:

Mary Beth Schaeffer, BA, Ms. Processing and Solicitation Coordinator, American College of Physicians/Annals of Internal Medicine

Speakers:

• Sheila Gafvert, Production Team Manager, American Meteorological Society
• Carol Jones, Production Manager, Wolters Kluwer
• Greg Suprock, Head of Solutions Architecture, Apex CoVantage

While there are a myriad of journal production workflows being followed by publishers, there are almost as many ways to measure just how well these workflows are being followed and how effective they are. This session will present different production metrics and approaches from three perspectives: a large publisher, a production vendor, and a society publisher. The goal is to give a wide perspective on the most effective and efficient ways to track journals production and what metrics may work best for you.

Moderator:

Michael Friedman, PhD, Journals Production Manager, American Meteorological Society

Speakers:

• Trish Groves, MBBS, MRCPsych, Director of Academic Outreach, BMJ
• Richard Sever, PhD, Assistant Director, Cold Spring Harbor Press and Co-Founder, bioRxiv , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Heather Staines, MA, PhD, Director, Partnerships, Hypothes.is
  

Article commenting is nothing new. Journals have been experimenting with comments or eLetters since journals went online. But the success stories are few and far between. Now, discovery databases like PubMed and preprint servers like BioRxiv are allowing users to comment on papers. Additionally, the session will look at third party solutions to weave comments into content. This session will explore where comments are working and where they aren’t while also pondering whether online commenting could someday unseat formal peer review.

Moderator:

Angela Cochran, Associate Publisher, American Society of Civil Engineers

Speakers:

• Melanie Dolecheck, Executive Director, Society for Scholarly Publishing
• R. Brooks Hanson, Executive Vice President, Science, American Geophysical Union
• Erika Valenti, President, Emerald Group Publishing, Inc.

In this important session, we will focus on diversity and inclusion. We will hear from three different panelists on what diversity should look like, why you need it, and helpful tools and organizations for evaluating implicit bias, diversity, and implementation. R. Brooks Hanson, Executive Vice President, Science, American Geophysical Union will share definitions and data, Erika Valenti, President, Emerald Group Publishing, Inc. will further explain helpful concepts and share her organizations efforts to be more inclusive, and Melanie Dolecheck, Executive Director, Society for Scholarly Publishing will discuss cross-publishing initiatives in the industry.

Moderator:

Jennifer Deyton, Senior Partner, J&J Editorial, LLC

Speakers:

• Alice Meadows, Director, Community Engagement and Support, ORCID
• Tom Pacific, BA, Publisher, Wolters Kluwer
• Howard Ratner, Executive Director, CHORUS

There are several initiatives that have emerged over the past several years that that have been effective in standardizing processes for data and data exchange within scholarly publishing. This session will focus on ORCID, CRediT and CHORUS, and will review their progress and adoption, as well as discuss successful implementations and best practices.

ORCID provides an “identifier” for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. They provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and affiliations. ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and connected with their contributions and affiliations across disciplines, borders, and time.

CRediT is a high-level classification of the diverse roles performed in the work leading up to a published research output in the sciences. Its purpose is to provide transparency to contributions to scholarly published work, and to enable improved systems of attribution, credit and accountability.

CHORUS is a service that allows funded research to be easily and permanently discoverable, accessible and verifiable by anyone in the world. By providing the necessary metadata infrastructure and governance to enable a smooth, low-friction interface between funders, authors, institutions and publishers in a distributed network environment, CHORUS can minimize public access compliance burdens while increasing access to literature and data in support of funder mandates worldwide.

Moderator:

Tony Alves, Director of Product Management, Aries Systems Corporation

Speakers:

• Sabina Alam, PhD, Editorial Director, F1000 Platforms
• Melissa Blickem, Senior Peer Review Analyst, Peer Review Operations, American Chemical Society
• Margaret Donnelly, Publisher, IOP Publishing
• Stephen Hewitt, md, pHd, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Histochemisty and Cytochemistry
• Lindsay Morton, MLIS, Contributor Experience Manager, Public Library of Science

A panel discussion starting with 5 min presentations from each speaker then a moderator-led Q&A session. Audience poll before & after.

Moderator:

Jonathan Schultz, Director, Journal Operations, American Heart Association

Speakers:

• Siobhan Aldridge, MA, Senior Manager: Online Submissions / Product Owner Submission Portal , Taylor & Francis
• Tiffany McKerahan, Author Engagement and Support Manager, IEEE
• Lindsay Morton, MLIS, Contributor Experience Manager, Public Library of Science
• Leslie Walker, Journals Editing Manager, American Chemical Society

No researcher is excited about excessive administrative tasks related to submitting work or securing publication. It’s our job to implement innovative tools that streamline their interaction with the Research Publishing Ecosystem. This session highlights innovative approaches to improving Author experience, straight from those who’ve successfully implemented tools that satisfy! Presentations include submission side author services and customized submission portals, as well as correction workflow innovation.

Moderator:

Alison McGonagle-O’Connell, MA, Collaborative Knowledge (Coko) Foundation

Speakers:

• WIndy Boyd, PhD, MPH, Science Editor, Environmental Health Perspectives
• Liz Fathman, PhD, Director, Print and Digital Media and Publisher, MBG Press, MIssouri Botanical Garden
• Michael Friedman, PhD, Journals Production Manager, American Meteorological Society

What do Editors-in-Chief wish their publishers knew about the scientific process? What do editorial and production offices wish EICs and researchers understood about the publishing process? This session will give publishers and EICs a chance to answer those questions and share the knowledge they have about their specific parts of the process, and how they each approach similar struggles from their own unique perspectives. This session will include information about the use of technical editors in publishing, what EICs might need to know about the structure of publishers, the roles of everyone involved in the process, what specialists in the field can bring to their editing/publishing experience, and how best to communicate between these two groups. Come with your own questions about what EICs and publishers can learn from one another!

Moderator:

Brit Stamey, Client Manager, Senior Copy Editor, J&J Editorial, LLC

Speakers:

• Jeffrey Beck, Technical Information Specialist, NCBI, National Library of Medicine
• Patricia Feeney, Head of Metadata, Crossref

This session will focus on what metadata is available to the scholarly publishing community, how it can help researchers and publishers alike, and Metadata2020’s efforts to help create richer, connected, and reusable, open metadata for all research outputs. We will also cover how metadata are represented in JATS and how agreement on metadata elements and usage will make all of our lives easier, in addition to discussing some metadata elements that are particularly problematic and outlining normalization efforts specific to document tagging.

Moderator:

Carissa A. Gilman, MA, Managing Editor, American Cancer Society

Speakers:

• Mary Dott, CAPT, USPHS, Online Editor, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Fay Ellis, BS, Senior Executive Editor Neurology Today/Neurology Now, Wolters Kluwer
• Glenn Landis, MA, Editorial Director, Blood Journals, American Society of Hematology

The use of social media has become an increasingly integral aspect of content promotion in scholarly communication. With multiple social media channels, publications of various sizes, and limited human and financial resources, how can todays scholarly communication professional decide what will work best for their publication? Attendees at this session will hear about real life social media initiatives undertaken by both self-published and commercially published society publications as well as a new, more visually-oriented social media initiative recently launched by a US government periodical.

Moderator:

Kelly Hadsell, Editorial Director, KWF Editorial

Tuesday, 8 May, 2018