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Advancing Authorship Webinar: Avoiding Predatory Publishing

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How do we support researchers in identifying trusted journals and publishers for their research?

Join us for a deep dive and thoughtful presentations on ways in which our speakers have found to recognize questionable publishing, as well as useful tips to avoid and handle “predatory” journal solicitation.

Bring your questions about this growing issue to this session as there will be time for attendees to participate in an interactive Q&A discussion.

Date: Thursday, June 8, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, EST
Zoom Webinar: Register now

Speaker Bios:

Monica Berger, MS, MA, Associate Professor, Library, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, has published and presented on various topics related to scholarly publishing with a focus on predatory (questionable) publishing. She has two forthcoming publications, a chapter on the role of librarians in mitigating predatory publishing by promoting scholarly information literacy (Routledge) and a scholarly monograph on predatory publishing (Association of Research and College Libraries, Publications in Librarianship series). Berger supports faculty scholarship at her campus by teaching workshops as well as providing consultations. An ardent proponent of open access, she also manages her campus institutional repository, CUNY Academic Works.

Jacob Glass, MD, PhD, Computational Physician Scientist on the Leukemia Service and in the laboratory of Ross Levine and the Center for Epigenetics Research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Glass’s laboratory research involves the study of leukemias with lineage ambiguity, the development of natural language processing systems to aid in clinical research, and the construction of models to integrate wearable data in clinical care.

Kevin Nicholas, MPA, is a data scientist on the Applied Data Science team, which is part of MSK’s Strategy & Innovation Department. Kevin has analyzed, built, and published on various predictive models and dashboards over the last decade, including ones used in production by clinical staff at MSK. He has worked at MSK for 7 years and works remotely from his home in Washington, DC.

John Seguin, MLS, President, Chief Librarian and co-founder of Third Iron, a library technology company based in Minneapolis formed in 2011. Since that time the company’s flagship product, the BrowZine Journal Engagement Service, has been adopted by nearly 1,500 institutions in more than 32 countries. Third Iron’s newest offering, LibKey, externalizes much of the internal power of BrowZine into a suite of API’s and products delivering AI-based intelligent linking technology to all aspects of library services. Third Iron aims to improve the user experience of getting users to authenticated materials quickly and easily regardless of their starting point.

Springer Nature No Longer Providing Manuscript Deposition Service

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Effective immediately, Springer Nature has decided to no longer offer a full manuscript deposition service to their NIH-funded authors. Authors (usually the corresponding author) or their assigned delegate, will now be responsible for handling the task of depositing the accepted manuscript in the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system to fulfill any funder or institutional mandate. Instructions for this task can be found on the Memorial Sloan Kettering NIH Public Access Policy LibGuide. Look for the tab labelled, Submission Method C.

Springer Nature will continue to automatically deposit gold open access (OA) articles in PMC (PubMed Central) and EPMC (Europe PubMed Central) if the research paper meets the PMC deposition guidelines on publisher deposition of papers published open access. Authors can confirm if a journal has a full PMC deposition agreement by searching for the journal title here.

It is critical that authors provide details of the grant when submitting their manuscript for publication to enable Springer Nature to identify eligible OA NIH-funded articles for deposit in the NIHMS system.

Should you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to reach out to Donna Gibson, Director, Library Services.

Webinar: The “New” NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy: A Conversation

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This webinar is a great opportunity to learn more about the new NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy and its impact on grant applicants. Join us for a conversation that will touch on policy expectations, insights in how to prepare a data management plan, and advice for sharing data responsibly and safely.

A panel of MSK staff from various departments will be sharing their recent experiences with time for attendees to participate in an interactive Q&A discussion.

Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, EST
Location – Zoom Webinar – Register Now

Panelist Bios:

Roy Cambria, BS, CCRP, CIP, Director, Human Research Protection Program (HRPP), MSK
Roy has been at Memorial Sloan Kettering since 2005 and has held several positions in clinical research throughout his almost 18 year career with the institution. He began MSK as the Institutional Review Board/Privacy Board (IRB/PB) Coordinator until 2008 when he transitioned to project, and program based positions in the former Office of Clinical Research. He returned to the IRB/PB administration space in 2016 as the Human Research Protections Program Director. The MSK Human Research Protection Program Office is part of the Protocol Activation, Review and HRPP unit in Clinical Research Compliance Administration. As HRPP Director, Roy oversees the daily operations of the HRPP office and MSK’s 3 IRB/PBs. He is responsible for promoting the welfare and rights of human research participants, facilitation of excellence in human subjects research, and ensure timely and high quality review of research. In addition, he and the HRPP office are responsible for ensuring full compliance with Institutional, AAHRPP(Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs), State and Federal regulations, requirements and guidance regarding human subjects’ protection. Roy has served on the MSK IRB/PB since 2008 and is a member of the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA) and a Certified IRB Professional (CIP).

Anthony Dellureficio, MLS, MSc, Associate Librarian, Data Management, MSK
Anthony joined the MSK Library in 2019 to help launch a new Research Data Management program to support researchers by developing, implementing, and integrating resources that focus on data management plan creation, data discovery, and data as a component of the publication process. Prior to joining MSK, Anthony led The New School Library and Archives systems and technology team for about ten years. He has previously worked as the digital archivist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, rare medical text cataloger at the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine, and archivist at the Johns Hopkins Medical archives. His academic area of interest is in the history of classical genetics.

Kelly McConnell, PhD, Associate Attending Psychologist & co-Director of the Psycho-oncology of Aging and Cancer research laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, MSK
Dr. Kelly McConnell’s research examines the nature and predictors of distress in older adult patients with cancer and their caregivers and care received at the end-of-life. She also examines the efficacy and implementation of interventions to reduce distress and increase rates of advance care planning in patients and caregivers. She has received NIH (K23, R21) and foundation (American Cancer Society, American Federation for Aging Research, RRF Foundation for Aging) grant funding for this research.

Joseph Olechnowicz, MA, Senior Editor, Department of Pediatrics, MSK
Joe Olechnowicz assists investigators with successfully communicating their scientific goals and asking for federal and philanthropic support for achieving them. He joined the Department of Pediatrics in 2008 initially contributing to protocol/project development activities (including protocol review activities of the department as well as the development of the FDA approved drug naxitamab) while also assisting with manuscript submissions and grant application and reporting.

Joe received his B.S. in biology from John Carroll University and his M.A. from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in biomedical ethics while also working in the lab of Dr. Sanford Markowitz on the genetics of familial colon cancer syndromes. He went on to work with Dr. Eric Kodish at the Cleveland Clinic analyzing the use of proxy consent and assent in clinical research involving children (Olechnowicz et al. Pediatrics, 2002). He then attempted to study the philosophy underpinning consent and intentional/free action (along with some other stuff) at Florida State University. He currently is employed using the skills he acquired during his academic activities, namely, writing concisely and precisely and making difficult scientific/conceptual explanations understandable.