Call for Conference Reports - Serials Review - Serials Spoken Here Column

The Serials Spoken Here column in Serials Review is seeking conference reports for several spring conferences. If you attended the UKSG 47^th Annual Conference in April or are attending ELUNA or the Acquisitions Institute in May or NASIG in June, submitting a report is an excellent way to inform colleagues who are not able to attend.  The reports are only 750 words or less and are a good opportunity to meet a writing goal to add to your resume/CV.

 

If you’re interested, please get in touch with me to identify a session and get more details about contributing to the column.

 

Thanks for your consideration!

Jan

 

Janetta Waterhouse

Editor, Serials Spoken Here

jwaterhouse@ksu.edu

Serials Review: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/usrv20

CFP: NISO Plus 2024 Global/Online - Virtual Conference September 17-18, 2024 - National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

What are the top priorities and concerns facing your organization? What are the biggest opportunities or risks, and how should the information community address them?

If you have ideas to share, then we encourage you to submit a proposal for the 2024 NISO Plus Global/Online conference, to be held virtually September 17–18, 2024. It’s a great opportunity to meet and collaborate with professionals from across the information community and around the world to address the most pressing issues in scholarly communications. And as with any NISO Plus conference, ideas emerging from the meeting will help to shape discussions about future NISO standards and projects. 

We welcome proposals from everyone across the information community—those working for libraries, publishers, scholarly infrastructure and tech providers, government agencies, and more—no matter your title or career level. Ideas from professionals outside North America are most welcome, as are proposals and presentations in languages other than English (we will provide translation and transcription services). 

Broad topics of interest include (but aren't limited to) the following: 

• Archiving and preservation

• Global issues

• Information quality and ethics

• Research integrity

• Metadata

• Metrics

• Open scholarship and open access

• Identity, access, and privacy

• Research infrastructure

• Sustainability

• Peer review

• Emerging technologies (eg,  AI and machine learning)

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve and support diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in the information community, we strongly encourage proposals that reflect a variety of perspectives—geographical, organizational, functional, etc.—and that acknowledge and address DEIA challenges and opportunities. We therefore recommend that your proposal includes either confirmed speakers or examples of who you plan to invite to speak. 

Please note that all sessions will comprise a live screening of prerecorded presentations (approximately 45 minutes), followed by a live online audience discussion period (30-45 minutes). Presentations will be recorded in August 2024. 

Please submit your proposal by Wednesday, May 29. All submissions will be reviewed by the NISO Plus 2024 Planning Committee, and we will inform everyone of their decisions by June 21

We look forward to hearing from you! Your ideas help to ensure that our meeting represents the broadest range possible of concerns and interests in the information community. 

Best wishes, 

The NISO Team NISO 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21211 Phone: 301.654.2512 E-mail: nisohq@niso.org

CFP: Forum for Open Research in MENA (FORM) 2024

The Forum for Open Research in MENA (FORM) is a non-profit membership organisation supporting the advancement of Open Science policies and practices in research communities and institutions across the Arab world.

 

A catalyst for positive action, we work with key stakeholders to develop and implement a pragmatic programme to facilitate the transition towards more accessible, inclusive and sustainable research and education models in the Arab region. Our goal is to empower libraries, higher education institutions, research councils and policy makers across the Arab world to collaborate on activities, projects and resources that promote engagement with, and the generation of, open research.

Bringing together leading international experts and key regional stakeholders, the Annual Forum provides an arena for librarians, researchers, government policy makers, universities and international experts to discuss and debate key themes and issues relating to the advancement of Open Research across the Arab world. The Forum is held in a different Arab State each year, to enable all researchers, librarians, and Open Science champions to have the opportunity to attend in person (as well as online).

This year we will focus on Transforming Knowledge into Action. We are therefore especially delighted to be partnering with the Qatar National Library for the 2024 Annual Forum, reflecting QNL’s mission to empower the people of Qatar in their research and learning journeys.

 

The Call for Papers is now Open:

Open Science in higher education institutions and research communities is a highly complex and rapidly evolving landscape, and there are many ways of transforming knowledge into practical action. We have therefore identified 4 thematic areas for this year’s Annual Forum, reflecting the priorities of our members and wider network across the Arab states:

• Policies and funding:
  
  
• Open access and research assessment policies
• Funding sources and allocations
• developing policies and determining best practises to support sustainability in Arab scholarly communications ecosystems
• Incorporating SDGs in research and education strategic planning
• Open Access publishing and open education resources
• Preprints, transparent peer review, and open access publishing
• Creating and disseminating open resources
• The commercialisation of Open Science
• Building and using Institutional repositories
• Capacity building and community engagement
• Adapting and decolonising practises and resources for the Arab region
• Building and Sustaining Communities of Practices (CoP) in Arabic speaking countries
• Digital and human capacity building
• Open infrastructure and infrastructure supporting Open Science
• The rise of community-owned and community-led Open Science infrastructures and publications
• Implementing reproducible, open and interoperable infrastructure in the Arab region
• Using AI to advance engagement with open science policies and practises in the Arab world

 

For more details and to submit, visit our website: https://forumforopenresearch.com/call-for-papers/

CFP: Charleston Conference 2024 (Charleston, SC November 11-15) & (Online December 6-13)

We are excited to announce that the Call for Papers for the 2024 Charleston Conference is officially open! This year’s theme of “The Sky’s the Limit” is a rallying call for innovation, exploration, and limitless possibilities. This is your opportunity to contribute to one of the most dynamic conferences in the library and scholarly publishing industry.

This year’s conference will be held in beautiful downtown Charleston November 11-15, with the virtual conference following online December 6-13.

Session formats include:

Plenary Sessions — General sessions of a broad interest for the entire group of conference attendees.

Neapolitan Sessions — Designed to be of interest to a broad audience, but drilling down a bit more into specifics than the plenary sessions, these are “mini plenaries” that are run simultaneously.

Lively Discussions — These 60-minute talks are scheduled during the lunchtime hours, and are intended to include a brief presentation followed by lively discussion.

Concurrent Sessions — This is a standard 40-minute session with a single speaker or group of speakers in a traditional presentation style.

Stopwatch Sessions — Presented in only 6 minutes each, these sessions are scheduled during a concurrent session time slot with 5 presentations back to back.

Innovation Lightning Rounds — These 10-minute sessions on innovative or entrepreneurial thinking in libraries feature five 10-minute presentations back-to-back.

Poster Sessions — In-person posters will have a physical poster board and a time on the agenda. Virtual posters will feature poster PDFs and video presentations available throughout the event, with a live Q&A session.

Submit your proposal HERE before the July 10 deadline.

We encourage submissions that offer practical insights, innovative thinking, diverse perspectives, and contribute to ongoing industry discussions, and promote active learning among attendees.

Decision notifications will be sent out in early August.

For more information and to read full descriptions of sessions and options, please visit the Charleston Hub website.

For any questions, please email Leah Hinds at leah@charlestonlibraryconference.com or Beth Bernhardt at beth@charlestonlibraryconference.com.

We look forward to receiving your proposals and shaping another amazing conference experience together!

CFP: Serials Librarian Special Issue on the Uses of AI in Scholarly Communication

Call for Papers and Peer Reviewers: Serials Librarian Special Issue on the Uses of AI in Scholarly Communication

 

Serials Librarian is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal for the international serials community. The journal encompasses practical, theoretical, and visionary ideas for librarians, publishers, vendors, and anyone interested in the changing nature of serials and scholarly communication more broadly.

 

Editor-in-Chief: Sharon Dyas-Correia (University of Oxford)

Associate Editor: Courtney McAllister (Atypon)

Assistant Editor: Meg Mering (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Review Status: Double-anonymized peer review

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Additional information is available here

 

We are currently seeking submissions for a Special Issue that explores how the application of Artificial Intelligence impacts Scholarly Communication areas, such as publishing, peer review, metadata, licensing, cataloging, collection assessment, etc.

 

Manuscripts will be evaluated on a rolling basis. If you are planning to contribute, please let us know by submitting this form: https://forms.gle/cu2qDx8HFkMV5ozP6

 

If you would like to be Peer Reviewer for this Special Issue, please apply here: https://forms.gle/TxK6etQPUdFA9yM38

 

Peer Reviewers will receive general attribution and thanks in the published issue (with permission).

 

Introduction

Rapid technology change often instigates ethical questions, identity shifts, and innovation simultaneously. Artificial Intelligence is not exempt from this pattern. In fact, the proliferation of AI tools, such as chatGPT, Bard, and others has raised important questions about the nature of publishing and library work, while simultaneously supporting innovative practices and projects. This Special Issue will highlight case studies and examples of current AI applications in technical services and publishing, as well as historical perspectives on AI, and commentary on the future of Scholarly Communication.

 

Suggested Topics

Historical perspectives

Current trends, projects, and case studies

Future thinking in the following areas:

• Copyright implications of LLMs and AI generally
• Ethical considerations for using AI in library work
• AI and definitions of authorship/contribution
• How AI might impact citations, peer review, and publishing practices
• Technology literacy and AI training needs
• AI’s potential impact on Open Access publishing, especially with regards to academic integrity
• How AI tools could evolve to better support library and researcher needs
• The role of AI in generating, maintaining, and verifying metadata
• AI’s potential impact on professional identity and the recognition of library work, authorship, and editorship

 

Recommended Content

We are interested in a wide range of content types, such as:

• Research articles
• Case studies
• Interviews
• Book reviews
• Columns

Submission Procedure

Manuscripts can be submitted to the ScholarOne portal for anonymized peer review

 

Please click here for author instructions

Call for Chapters: Academic Libraries and Sustainable Development #ACRLPublication

Proposal Deadline: June 19, 2024 

Submit Proposals here: https://forms.gle/vsZJTZNgnMXyhR217 

You are invited to submit an abstract for a chapter in an upcoming edited book with the working title, Academic Libraries and Sustainable Development published by ACRL. 

EDITED BY: 

Wendy Pothier, University of New Hampshire & Ilana Stonebraker, Indiana University 

 

OVERVIEW: 

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), first adopted in 2012, have worked in tandem with worldwide climate concerns to alter the way we approach the environment, poverty, gender inequality, hunger and worldwide trade. A decade into the implementation of sustainable development, sustainability has shifted the ways academic librarians view our work, changed what we teach, and how we partner.  

 

At the academic level, sustainability has become a focal point, impacting accreditation processes, faculty governance through task forces and committees, and university-wide strategic planning efforts.  Sustainability has transformed the majors offered at our institutions and the resources created by our publishing vendors. What role are librarians playing in these changes? How are academic librarians embracing sustainable development in their programming, teaching, operations, and in collections? 

 

This book delves into the evolving role of librarians amidst these changes, exploring how academic librarians are embracing sustainability across programming, teaching methodologies, operational strategies, and collection development. Through the lens of the UN SDGs, it reflects on the past decade of implementation while projecting forward to the next, emphasizing the crucial role that librarians continue to play as partners and catalysts for progress 

 

The book will be organized into four sections. We welcome proposals for a topic that does not fit within the categories described and encourage prospective authors to contact us with thoughts: acrlsustainabledevelopment@gmail.com  

Section A: Library Organizations and Sustainable Development 

Chapter topics may include: 

• Organizing Sustainability Committees within Libraries 

• Process for Creating Sustainability Plans in Libraries 

• Sustainability as a value within Academic Libraries 

• Libraries and SDG4: Quality Education  

• Advocacy for SDG Implementation and Action 

• Assessment of Sustainability in Libraries 

• We estimate these chapters to have 3500-4000 words plus relevant images, works cited, etc.  

 

Section B: The SDGs and Partnerships 

Chapter topics may include: 

• Curriculum support for the SDGs 

• Accreditation & SDGs  

• Examples: AACSB, ABET, NASPAA, etc.  

• Information Literacy and the SDGs 

• Green Publishing and Open Access 

• Faculty Impact Analysis and the SDGs 

• Libraries and Campus Sustainability Offices 

• The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) rating and libraries  

• We estimate these chapters to have 3500-4000 words plus relevant images, works cited, etc.  

 

 

Section C: The SDGs in Action: Practical Examples from Academic Libraries 

Chapter topics may include: 

• Lesson Plans 

• Climate action weeks 

• Events and Initiatives 

• Jobs- Liaison work/ sustainability librarian roles 

• Collection Development Strategies 

• We estimate these chapters to have 3500-4000 words plus relevant images, works cited, etc.  

 

Section D: Sustainability Progress Reports 

• We solicit progress reports from institutions who have worked with the UN SDGs for two years or longer to provide brief progress reports on how their processes and focuses have changed, what new interests have arisen, and what advice they have for other academic libraries.  

• We estimate 2000 words per chapter.  

 

 

KEY DETAILS FOR PROPOSALS 

By June 19, 2024, submit your proposal through google forms. The form includes the following sections: author(s) name, institution, working chapter title, section/part of book and abstract (up to 500 words). Abstracts should include: 

• The topic or question your chapter will address 

• The institutional or organizational context of the topic or question (if applicable)  

• Which section of the book is most fitting for your proposed chapter 

 

Final chapters should be 2,500–4,000 words (depending on section). Chapters must not be previously published or under consideration elsewhere at the time of submission. All chapters will follow APA 7th style guidelines. 

 

 

TENTATIVE TIMELINE 

CFP Due: June 19th, 2024 

Acceptance Notifications: July 10, 2024 

First Drafts Due: Sept 16, 2024 

 

SELECTION PROCESS 

We will be evaluating submissions based on fit with the theme of the book and relevance to a variety of experiences and perspectives, with preference given to abstracts that address historically underrepresented or marginalized groups, and identities. We commit to providing feedback for submissions not selected for authors who may wish to seek other publication opportunities in the future.