Draft Outline of Workshop "Publish or perish? The future of academic publishing and careers" #UCDavis 2/13-2/14

Thanks to EVERYONE on Twitter and elsewhere who gave useful feedback on my request for ideas about a workshop we are planning to have at UC Davis.  For background see:

• My previous blog post: Ideas wanted for workshop on the "Future of Academic Publishing and Careers"
• The Storify I keep updating regarding my original request for comments: Request for ideas / topics on the future of scholarly publishing

Over the last few days I have discussed the meeting with many many people and we have come up with a more detailed / revised draft of the whole meeting.  I thought I would share that here -- a formal announcement will be coming soon with details on registering and submitting abstracts for short talks and such.

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Publish or Perish? The Future of Academic Publishing and Careers (tentative title ...)

February 13-14, 2013

University of California, Davis

Hosted by the UC Davis IFHA Innovating Communication in Scholarship (ICIS) Project

Day 1: Innovations in Scholarly Publishing

• The Changing Nature of the Journal 
• Beyond Journals and New Forms of Digital Publishing
• Peer Review: Assessment and Evolution
• Keynote talk by Yochai Benkler (which will also be part of the UC Davis Provost's Forum)

Day 2: Assessment 

• Tracking and Measuring Impact
• Assessment by Institutions: Current Practices 
• Assessment by Institutions: How to Change 

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Potential Topics for the Sessions - and I note for every session we hope to cover how the topic area differs between fields and regions and will have a discussion panel / discussion session at the end.

Session 1: The Changing Nature of the Journal 

• Role of societies in publishing
• Financial side of journal publishing
• Institutional open access policies
• The spread of open access publishing
• Preprints and repositories

Session 2: Beyond Journals and New Forms of Digital Publishing

• Data publishing
• Code and workflows
• Books vs. journals
• Social media
• The living paper
• Micro and nano publications

Session 3: Peer Review - Assessment and Evolution

• New models of peer review: technical merit, open review
• Post publication review
• Reproducibility
• Retraction 

Session 4: Tracking and Measuring Impact

• Article level vs journal level metrics
• Metrics in the humanities vs. sciences
• Institutional level metrics
• Integration of metrics beyond articles / books 
• Predicting future impact
• Unique identifiers and tracking individuals

Session 5: Assessment by Institutions: Current Practices 

• How do hiring, promotion and tenure cases work?
• Differences between fields
• Tenure track vs. other academic positions
• Assessment for grants / funding

Session 6: How to Change Models of Assessment

• Search committee training
• Bias: implicit and otherwise
• Methods to limit implicit and explicit bias
• Administration perspective