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C4DISC webinar: Demographic Information in Peer Review Systems: Challenges and Solutions

Insufficient representation among editorial leadership, editorial boards, authors, and reviewers remains a key barrier to promoting an inclusive and equitable scholarly publishing industry. The systematic exclusion of groups including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), women, gender non-conforming people, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and members of the disability community from scholarly communications is harmful to both the integrity of the scientific review and publication process and to those individuals’ careers. Collecting, measuring, and using demographic data to improve these gaps in representation are important mechanisms for enabling an equitable and inclusive scholarly publishing environment. This session will offer perspectives from several scholarly publishing professionals about how their organizations are collecting and using author and reviewer demographic information to improve representation and inclusion in the peer review and publication process. Speakers will address questions around challenges and solutions for collecting demographic data; they will also offer actions for addressing, measuring, and mitigating bias in peer review to create a more socially just science. Demographics differ by country and region, and so this session will offer global perspectives on these issues. Sponsored by SSP’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.

Event Date: March 22, 2023

2023 SSP Webinar: AI in Scholarly Publishing – Risk Versus Potential

Practical applications for AI in publishing have existed for a number years now, in areas such as statistical review and copyediting, but the recent and prominent emergence of AI authorship presents areas for both vast potential and great concern. Where are the boundaries for AI use in scholarly publishing and who should be setting them?

Event Date: March 15, 2023, 2023

Association of Indian Universities (AIU) and STM – Webinar Series

There are many publishers in the scholarly ecosystem and new ones are entering the business every week. In the past years, there is a growing concern among researchers about predatory publishers (journals). It is quite challenging to find up-date guidance when choosing where to publish. The campaign ‘Think.Check.Submit’ (TCS) has been produced with the support of a coalition from across scholarly communications in response to discussions about deceptive publishing. In order to raise awareness for TCS but also to offer real practical guidance to Indian researchers on the question ‘of how to find a trusted journal for publication.

TCS offers checklists; researchers can use them to make sure that the select the right publisher and journal. All stakeholders in scholarly communications, including research institutions, universities and publishers need to help to share and explain about the importance of Think.Check.Submit

Event Date: March 9, 2023

GPT-3 and the future of publishing & academia webinar

Few will have missed the recent launch of ChatGPT. One of the most powerful language processing AI models to date (with 175 billion parameters), GPT-3 produces surprisingly human-like texts that can be very difficult — if not impossible — to distinguish from human-produced information.This powerful technology forces us to consider some fundamental questions. What opportunities does this next generation of AI give to researchers and publishers, as well as bad actors (e.g. papermills)? And what does it mean for academic work in general? In this webinar, will hear perspectives from three sides: technology, publishing, and academia.

Event Date: March 9, 2023