From: Jo Linda Thompson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:04:46 -0400

Call for Proposals: Biomedical Scholarly Communications in the Digital Age

(Note: We are re-advertising this call for proposals originally issued
September 2015)

The MLA Books Panel seeks to publish a comprehensive overview of
scholarly communications in the life and health sciences for
librarians and biomedical professionals.  The publication will define
scholarly communications in the 21st century through discussion of
current concepts and state of the art.  It will also review the
history of the field and examine the forces that have caused it to
radically change in the last two decades, and explore future
developments, emerging technologies and practices.

Areas of focus for chapters include:

·         History of traditional academic publishing and communication
models and challenges to those systems, including scholarly journal
price inflation and new digital platforms

·         Measuring author impact through journal rank and impact
factors, and new measurement tools including altmetrics

·         Peer review – challenges to traditional methods and new
models, including open peer review

·         Professional networking and informal communications –
listservs, blogs, and social media platforms including Twitter,
Facebook, Biowebspin, PubMedCommons, and ResearchGate

·         Publishing models and impact of successful biomedical open
access journals (PLOS One, etc.)

·         NIH open access policies and PubMed Central, as well as
other government agency open access and depository policies

·         Knowledge translation models and barriers  in clinical practice

·         Research data management – concepts, methods, and making
data discoverable through metadata , linked data and data curation
profiles

·         Institutional repositories in biomedical settings – software
and platforms, biomedical metadata considerations, promotion and
depository policies at academic institutions

·         Digital preservation of electronic publications, gray
literature, and data

·         Legal and ethical issues in scholarly publishing – copyright
(particularly in relation to author’s rights), HIPAA regulations and
clinical research publication,  plagiarism, and published research
retraction

The target audience is health and life sciences librarians, and
biomedical researchers, faculty and graduate/professional students.
Where possible, the book will highlight model programs and practices
at academic health sciences libraries and academic medical centers.

The book will have at least one editor and may include contributions
from academic health sciences librarians or information professionals.
If you are interested in serving as an editor or author, please
contact JoLinda Thompson.  For more information on the MLA publishing
process, please visit the FAQ page.


JoLinda Thompson
Systems Librarian
Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library
George Washington University
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