Open Access, Predatory Publishing, and ORCID
Date: Monday, September 28, 2020
Time: 1 PM, Eastern Time
Overview:
By the end of the session you will be able to:
- Articulate the reasoning behind Open Access;
- Identify the two different Open Access models and their characteristics;
- Understand the role eScholarship (McGill's repository) can play in helping you meet Open Access requirements and sharing your work more broadly;
- Define predatory publishing and other questionable publishing practices;
- Apply different indicators and resources to help identify predatory publishers/journals;
- Understand the role ORCID can play in keeping your online academic profile organized and the impact that may have on author-level metrics
Facilitators:
Alex Amar (MLIS) has been the librarian for The Neuro - The Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital - since 2016, and a librarian at the McGill University Health Centre since 2013, previously at the Montreal Children's and Montreal General Hospitals. While offering remote research support for IPN staff and students, complementing the support from the McGill library, his unique area of responsibility is to The Neuro's on-site doctors, nurses and residents.
Andrea Quaiattini (MA, MLIS) is an assistant librarian at McGill University. She provides research support and instruction for postgraduate medical education, departments in the Faculty of Medicine including neuroscience and neurosurgery, and is an associate member of McGill's Institute of Health Sciences Education.