[IRTalk] FW: NSEF webinars November 2017

[Ina Smith]

From: NSEF [mailto:nsef-bounces at lists.assaf.org.za] On Behalf Of Mmaphuthi Mashiachidi
Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 10:20 AM
To: NSEF LISTS <nsef at lists.assaf.org.za>
Subject: [NSEF] NSEF webinars November 2017

Dear NSEF Members

We will not be hosting our annual NSEF meeting this year. Instead, we would like to invite you to two webinars aimed at scholarly editors.

Please register for the webinar workshops - click on the registration link indicated.

The webinar workshops will be presented via ASSAf, using BigBlueButton. Minimum requirements: Stable Internet access, speakers. More details will be communicated to registered participants closer to the time.

How to identify questionable journals? (Friday 17 November, 10:00 - 11:00):
After the closure of Beall's list, there are still many ways to identify journals that publish low quality research without meeting basic publishing standards.

Open Peer Review (Friday 24 November 2017, 10:00 - 11:00):
To address problems with the peer-review process, many journals have experimented with different types of peer-review models. Open peer review was adopted by several journals in order to encourage transparency in the process, and there are now a number of different ways in which this is implemented. This webinar will provide an overview of the different peer review processes which exist, and will demonstrate how the post-publication open-peer review model is implemented on articles published in F1000Research and associated platforms.

The workshop details are as follows:

Date

Time

Topic

Presenters

Register

Friday, 17th November

10:00 - 11:00

Identifying questionable journals

Judith Barnsby, DOAJ


Please click here to register<https://goo.gl/forms/CsNoT2iOjPm04Tq02>

Friday, 24th November

10:00 - 11:00

Open Peer Review

Sabina Alam, F1000 Platforms


Brief biographies
Sabina Alam is the Editorial Director of F1000 Platforms. After completing a PhD in neuroimmunology from the University of Bath, and then a postdoctoral position in neuroscience at the School of Pharmacy in London, Sabina moved from research into scientific open access publishing in 2008.  After a few years as a staff editor handling the peer review process on a number of BMC series journals, she became the Chief Editor of the open-peer reviewed journal, BMC Medicine from 2011-2016. Sabina has been involved in various peer review initiatives, and is a member of COPE and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). Sabina joined F1000 Platforms in 2017 as Editorial Director where she oversees the editorial and publishing service for all submissions to the F1000 platforms, which all operate on a post-publication invited open-peer review model.

Judith Barnsby is a Managing Editor at the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a key resource for the global open access community. She has over 25 years of experience in the scholarly publishing industry, working for non-profit society publishers the Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Physics, as well as service providers such as Ingenta and HighWire. Judith has a keen interest in publishing standards and protocols, and has previously served on the board of the CLOCKSS digital preservation service.

Please address any queries to us at: desre at assaf.org.za<mailto:desre at assaf.org.za> / mmaphuthi at assaf.org.za<mailto:mmaphuthi at assaf.org.za>.

Hope you can participate.

Many thanks.
Kind regards
Desré and Mmaphuthi

Desré Stead
Senior Project Officer: Scholarly Publishing Unit
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

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Tel: +27 12 349 6640
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Email: desre at assaf.org.za<mailto:desre at assaf.org.za>

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