In today’s rapidly changing academic landscape, researchers face challenges navigating publishing and meeting funder requirements about public access to research. This series of four workshops offers UConn and UConn Health researchers up-to-date and in-depth information and resources for figuring out where and how to publish their work.

These workshops are suitable for researchers at all career stages who want to take proactive steps to learn about recent trends and challenges in scholarly publishing. 

Workshop 1: Author Agreements and Creative Commons Licenses – November 17

• Negotiate terms of publishing
• Use author addenda to protect an author's rights to their work
• Select appropriate Creative Common licenses

Workshop 2: Article Processing Charges and Open Access – November 18

• Define open access publishing models
• Find support for Article Processing Charges (APCs)
• Meet funder requirements for public access to research

Workshop 3: Evaluating Journal Metrics and Identifying Trusted Publishers – November 19

• Identify and avoid deceptive journals
• Evaluate journal metrics

Workshop 4: Discipline-Specific Publishing – November 20

• Navigate discipline-specific publishing challenges
• Work with a subject-specialist librarian to support the publishing process

These workshops will include subject specialist librarians from the sciences, health sciences, and social sciences & humanities:

• Yaoguang Li (PhD in Agronomy) Research Services Librarian at UConn Library, ORCID 0000-0003-0604-1148
• Jillian Silverberg (MS in Library and Information Science) Instruction Librarian at UConn Health Sciences Library, ORCID 0000-0003-2850-2136
• Jennifer Schaefer (PhD in Latin American History) Research Services Librarian at UConn Library, ORCID 0000-0002-6929-5551

Electronic Resources Librarian Kristina Edwards (MS in Library and Information Science) will join for Workshop 2: Article Processing Charges and Open Access. Additional subject specialist librarians will join to answer questions for Workshop 4: Discipline-Specific Publishing.