Issues faced by early-career researchers
Last year, over 5 million articles were published in academic journals!
How can anyone make their work stand out in that deluge of discoveries?
The challenge is even greater for early-career researchers. Their networks are limited. They are trying to position themselves and their work, and many of them will soon be looking for a job. This workshop is for them.
However, any problem that early-career researchers have is also a problem for their supervisors and universities.
Are you helping your PhD candidates and postdocs make good decisions about publishing? Do they understand the policies around article submission – such as open access, Plan S, licensing, pre-approval – and what that means for their careers? Do they understand how the choices they make deeply affect the discoverability of their work?
Solutions offered by the workshop
Based on 25 years of university leadership experience, I have developed a workshop that will enable your graduate students and postdocs to understand:
- what an ideal, well-functioning system for academic publishing would be, and how it should support establishing a research career,
- how open access and the burgeoning diamond open access movement best support the needs of researchers,
- key policies and their consequences, including Plan S, DORA, rights retention strategies, and preregistration of research with journals,
- what the most common bibliometric tools are (impact factor, citation indices, etc.) and how they affect publishing and career advancement,
- their own role in the peer review system and how to approach it rationally.
Success for early-career researchers is also success for their research groups and institutions. For that reason, this workshop is good for their universities, too. The right approach to publishing will help PhD candidates complete their degrees on time, get their next grants and continue with important contributions to their chosen field.
Invite your early-career researchers to join me and get up-to-date on how to publish their research in ways that make it visible and that will help them take the next step in their research and their careers!
As part of a full-day event at your institution, I also offer a one-hour session with supervisors and other faculty, so that they, too, are up-to-date on relevant policies and developments.
Why me?
Prof. Curt Rice
Making universities better
Universities are essential for the betterment of society. My commitment to that belief motivates me and gives focus to my work, whether it is at specific institutions, in (inter)national organizations, or through my speaking and writing.
My journey so far
I’ve been passionate about PhD education since I was a PhD candidate myself. The thrill of learning how to do research – how to discover new knowledge! – and then how to contribute to an academic field by publishing or teaching that work is what motivated me to choose a career in academia.
Along the way, I decided that working to create the conditions for others to do excellent research and education is at least as important as doing it oneself. Because of that, I have spent most of the last 20 years in leadership positions.
Through all of these positions, I have been enthusiastically engaged in discussions and debates about publishing, ranging from open access to DORA to licensing and much more.
Rector
Oslo Metropolitan University
Leading OsloMet to accreditation as a university was built on a dramatic enhancement of our research profile, including support of several diamond open access journals.
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Rector
Norwegian University
of Life Sciences
NMBU implemented a rights retention policy for academic publishing under my leadership, as well as developing a strong strategic profile as Norway’s leading sustainability university.
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Vice Rector for Research
University of Tromsø
Beyond a strong push to highlight the importance of open access publishing, my core responsibilities included strengthening PhD education and increasing the percentage of women professors.
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Founding Director
CASTL
Center of Excellence
University of Tromsø
Working with many engaged colleagues, we built a graduate school at the heart of what became an internationally leading center in linguistics.
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Head of the Board
Current Research Information System in Norway
(Cristin)
Cristin is the Norwegian government’s vehicle for registering scientific publications and supporting the transition to Open Access.
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Speaker
Over 500 talks
in over 25 countries
I speak primarily about issues in university leadership, including open access publishing, gender equality, internationalization and the future of higher education.
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Writer
The Guardian
Science in Balance
I have written widely about open access, including columns in The Guardian and on my own blog Science in Balance.
I’m currently writing a book on the academic publishing system.
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Leader
Committee for Gender Balance
and Diversity in Research
As a catalyst for justice and quality in research through gender balance and diversity, one focus was gender-based differences in publishing patterns, not least of all during the pandemic.
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The early-career researchers around you need this workshop. Book a call here to discuss how I can help them succeed!