When making your research Open Access, what are some key issues you need to be aware of? How do you share your work while maintaining research integrity?

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Open Access is commonly referred to making the research articles freely available online, through either publishing in an OA journal ("Gold OA"), or self-archiving a copy of the manuscript in a depository ("Green OA"). Increasingly, funders, institutions and some journals are requiring openness in other aspects of the research workflow, like dataset or a data management plan. Within this new landscape of OpenScience, how as a researcher, do you navigate a path to openness especially dealing with sensitive issues with research integrity?

This talk will assist researchers in asking questions such as:

• Why should I make my research Open Access?
  - Looking at the benefits to you, and your research in pursuing open options
• How can I make my research Open Access?
  - Exploring options for making research open with integrity including: which versions of articles can be shared, sharing of data and datasets, and where they can be shared
• What are the ethical concerns of being Open Access?
  - Providing information on re-use of Open content, peer review integrity, and ethical responsibilities for authors

About Speaker:

Lyndsey Dixon is the Regional Journals Editorial Director of the Asia Pacific portfolio at Taylor & Francis. Lyndsey has been based in Asia for the last few years, having moved to Singapore from the Taylor & Francis Head Office in Oxford, UK where she was the Publisher for the Environment & Agriculture portfolio. She has been working in the publishing industry for the last nine years and has experience in a number of roles in both books and journals, working with Academic Societies, Editors and Authors from across the globe.

Time: 12:30 - 13:30, 2 November 2017
Venue: Connect Place, G/F, Pao Yue-kong Library

To register, please go to: https://www.lib.polyu.edu.hk/read/talk-jeffrey-andrews

How to Publish a Technical Paper with IEEE

To help our engineering students and faculty enhance their ability to get published and share their research with the scholarly community, the Library has collaborated with IEEE to organize a free authorship workshop offering advice on everything from how the IEEE publishing process works to basic writing tips and submitting a manuscript. Prof. Wan-Chi Siu, former IEEE editor from PolyU, will share his valuable experience as an author in getting published as well as provide insight into the editorial and peer review process at IEEE.

Topics to be covered include:

• Benefits of getting published
• How to choose where to publish a paper
• What editors look for in a submission
• Why editors and reviewers reject papers
• Aiding discovery with the right title, abstracts, and keywords
• Paper structure and organization
• Ethics and avoiding misconduct pitfalls
• tools available from IEEE

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All engineering students and staff are welcome!

About Speaker:

Prof. Wan-Chi Siu, Chair Professor from Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, PolyU. Fellow of the IEEE, former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and former Guest Editor and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.

Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics is an online bibliography with links to resources in linguistics and related disciplines of neuroscience, cognitive science for the study of language. It also provides expert summaries in these fields.

Expiry date: 12 Nov 2017