Roundtable Discussion: Scholarly Communication Topics

Leading up to their tenure and promotion, junior faculty are often primarily concerned with following domain-specific practices around publishing to ensure a successful review. Impact factor and citation counts are considered the coin of the realm. As forward-thinking as a faculty member may be, innovation in tenure and promotion is slow moving and legitimate concern around continued appointment can often drive early publication decisions. In this interactive session, audience members will be challenged to step into a junior faculty member\u27s shoes and tasked with exploring issues around copyright, author rights, publication agreements, and open access policies. They will consider how a publishing decision can effect discoverability, research impact, downstream use cases, and a tenure dossier. Through this exercise, audience members should gain an appreciation for the importance of thoughtfully engaging with the decision-making processes around the publication process rather than simply considering it a means to an end