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The Library Publishing Coalition welcomes you to the final day of the 2021 Virtual Library Publishing Forum! 

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Program Highlights

The last day of the 2021 Forum begins at 12:00 PM ETD with a keynote from Kaitlin Thaney. (And Join Kaitlin later for our final meet-up—see below). 

Meet-ups & Networking

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Discord server: Jump on Discord to chat with fellow attendees, join the official meet-ups, or contact the Help Desk! (For information on signing up and using the Discord server, see the file in the Information Archive session.)

Meet-ups: We’ll close the Forum with a Happy Hour Meet-up with our closing keynote speaker Kaitlin Thaney. Join us and help celebrate the week! NOTE: We’ll be using a Zoom meeting (not the Discord server) for this—click on the Meet-up title in Sched to get the link.

Sponsor Bingo winners!
  • Nina Collins is Grand Prize Winner of a complimentary registration to the in-person 2022 Forum in Pittsburgh!

  • Prize winners of an item from the Forum Zazzle store are Vanessa Gabler, Zeineb Yousif, and Wilhelmina Randtke!

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to all for participating in Sponsor Bingo!

Demographic Survey

We ask all attendees to fill out our brief demographic survey. Responses are optional and anonymous but will create a baseline understanding of Forum attendees and help us learn where we are now in terms of inclusivity so we can better plan for where we need to be. 

Code of Conduct

All Forum-related activities are subject to the Library Publishing Coalition Code of Conduct. Please help us to create a safe and welcoming environment for all participants. 

Contact

If you have any questions or problems during the conference, email us at contact@librarypublishing.org


Newly registered? Interested in working on the LPC Ethical Framework task force?
If you are looking for information on using the LPF21 Discord server, were late registering, or need an info refresh, check the Information Archive session, which includes a Program PDF, information on the LPF Discord server, and  copies of emails that have been sent to attendees.
Thursday, May 13 • 2:45pm - 3:45pm
Presenting Preprints: Are Library Publishers the New Facebook?

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Preprints are an increasingly important component of the scholarly record and preprint platforms have correspondingly grown in number. Academic communities value preprints for the opportunity to share early findings with peers and receive immediate feedback on not-yet-reviewed works. With the COVID pandemic, a broader audience is turning to preprints, as political leaders, journalists, and the public seek new information about the virus. Complications arise, however, when the unvetted nature of these works is not clearly signaled alongside discussions of their findings. In late 2020, Rick Anderson captured these concerns, highlighting cases where discredited preprints remained available to read, presenting a potential for misinformation. Anderson posited that preprint platform providers, not just editors, should ensure adequate preprint vetting and be willing to retract them.

With the availability of two new open-source preprint platforms–PKP’s Open Preprint Systems (OPS) and Birkback’s Janeway preprint server–library publishers now have familiar, robust infrastructure for entering this space and are a logical home for such services, especially given a strong commitment to a specific research community. But what additional responsibilities must we accept–if any–as publishers of this genre? Should we establish terms for vetting of submissions? Without adequate domain knowledge, how would we enforce, or even audit, such terms? How do we indicate that a specific preprint’s findings have not yet been formally accepted? What about obligations regarding debunked publications? What are the responsibilities of platform providers, publishers, and editors? Should library publishers, as a community of practice, expand on the proposed best practices related to preprint metadata to ensure we are responsible actors in providing access to early research?

Panelists will explore these questions during the session’s first half, and invite attendee participation for the second. Registered attendees will receive an advance survey regarding current/planned preprint publishing, in order to identify additional discussion topics.

Speakers
avatar for Lisa Schiff

Lisa Schiff

Assoc, Dir, Publishing, Archives, & Digitization, California Digital Library, University of California Office of the President
scholarly communication, open access publishing, metadata, repositories, digital archives, mass digitization, HathiTrust, Google Books
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Juan Pablo Alperin

Associate Director, Public Knowledge Project
Juan Pablo Alperin is an Assistant Professor at the School of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, the Associate Director of Research for the Public Knowledge Project, and the co-director of the Scholarly Communications Lab. He is a multi-disciplinary scholar, with training in computer... Read More →
avatar for Bruce Caron

Bruce Caron

Executive Director, New Media Studio
avatar for Alex Mendonça

Alex Mendonça

Online Submission & Preprints Coordinator, SciELO


Thursday May 13, 2021 2:45pm - 3:45pm EDT
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