The Future of Scholarly Publishing – A Symposium

Florida State University Libraries will host a symposium titled "The Future of Scholarly Publishing" as part of International Open Access Week. The event will feature a lecture by Dr. Mark Riley, Chair of the Department of Physics “What is Open Access and Why Does it Matter?” Following the lecture will be a panel discussion and lightning talks on topics, issues and ideas surrounding scholarly communication in the digital age.

Proposals are now being accepted for panelists and/or lightning talks relating to the future directions of scholarship in light of the tools and possibilities afforded by the open web. Lightning talks should be 5 minutes or less, and can be accompanied by slides or other presentation tools. This type of talk offers a creative and different approach to the academic presentation while emphasizing brevity and simplicity in sharing knowledge. Examples can be seen at http://igniteshow.com.  Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit 200-250 word abstracts for participation.

Possible topics include, but should not be limited to:

• Open educational resources
• Open data
• Open government
• Institutional repositories
• Digital humanities
• E-science
• Data curation
• Data mining in the humanities
• Blogging as scholarship
• The database as scholarship
• Open peer review
• Linked Open Data
• Evolving journal models
• Peer review
• Author’s rights
• Tenure and Promotion
• Digital Scholarship

Email 200-250 word abstracts to Scholarly Communications Project Manager Micah Vandegrift mlv03@my.fsu.edu or submit your proposal via this form - http://bit.ly/digiFSU. Please indicate if your proposal is for a presentation or to serve on the panel.

Accepted presenters will be notified by October 14^th.