Monday, October 7, 2024

8:30am – 9:00am

Registration, coffee and light breakfast, meet your colleagues 

9:00am – 9:45am

Opening remarks and overview of TriangleSCI’s history and this year’s program

Paolo Mangiafico – Director, Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute

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9:45am – 10:45am

Panel Discussion 1

The Case for Values in Scholarly Communication

This session will use publishing as a prism to reconsider how campus-led values should and can drive change in scholarly communication. The panel will describe examples of new paradigms, infrastructure, and business models that originated at Triangle SCI and have gone on to make significant impact.

Moderator: Tom Scheinfeldt – Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Connecticut

Panelists:

•  Nicky Agate – Associate Dean for Academic Engagement, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries [background info]
•  Christina Drummond – Executive Director, OA Book Usage Data Trust [background info]
•  Marcel LaFlamme – Open Research Manager, PLOS [background info]
  
• Katherine Skinner – Research Lead, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) [background info]

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10:45am – 11:00am

Break

11:00am – 12:00pm

Panel Discussion 2

Taking action to address inequities in scholarly communications and academia

This session will feature a discussion of historical and structural inequities, how they affect the people and processes of scholarly communication and academic research, and what we can do to combat the inequity and promote a more fair and just scholarly communication ecosystem.

Moderator: Courtney Berger – Executive Editor, Duke University Press

Panelists:

• Niccole Coggins – Journal Production Editor, American Psychological Association [background info]
  
• Sandra Aya Enimil – Director of Scholarly Communication and Collection Strategy, Yale Library [background info]
• Jason Rhody – Senior Director of Engagement Strategy, Modern Language Association [background info]

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12:00pm – 1:30pm

Box lunch, and optional tour of Hunt Library

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Panel Discussion 3

Removing barriers and promoting broader access, accessibility, and engagement in scholarly communications and academia

This session will feature a discussion looking at different ways of engaging with people who have largely been excluded from the dominant scholarly communication venues. What tools, techniques, and policies could scholars, publishers, and institutions use to better engage and build trust with broader sets of stakeholders?

Moderator: Kuldip Kuwahara – Professor, Language and Literature,
North Carolina Central University

Panelists:

• Dene Grigar – Professor & Director, Creative Media &
  Digital Culture, Washington State University Vancouver [background info]
  
• Ruth Herbert – Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology, University of Kent, UK [background info]
• Tricia Matthew – Associate Professor of English, Montclair State University [background info]
• Rob Parkinson – Storyteller & therapist, Human Givens Institute [background info]

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2:30pm – 3:30pm

Panel Discussion 4

Emerging Challenges and Opportunities

This panel will feature a discussion of emerging challenges and opportunities for scholarly communication and academia more broadly. How do we foresee trends in artificial intelligence and “surveillance capitalism” playing out in research and publishing? What ethical, legal, financial, or other impacts might be on the horizon related to emerging technologies, political pressures and regulatory changes, demographic shifts, climate change, or other broad societal changes? What are some things we could do to effect and incentivize positive outcomes, and avoid negative ones?

Moderator: Dave Hansen – Executive Director, Authors Alliance

Panelists:

• Danielle Colbert-Lewis – Head of Research and Instructional
  Services, North Carolina Central University [background info]
• Meredith Jacob – Project Director, Copyright and Open Policy, American University, Washington College of Law
• Damian Pattinson – Executive Director, eLife [background info]
• Jeff Pooley – Professor of Media and Communication, Muhlenberg College [background info]

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3:30pm – 3:45pm

Break

3:45pm – 4:30pm

Round-table discussion

Lessons learned from eight years of TriangleSCI, and how to carry it forward

This round-table discussion will include anyone who has participated in TriangleSCI in the past. We’ll discuss how TriangleSCI was structured, what worked well, what could have been better, what we changed and improved, and what we learned from it that might be applicable to similar programs elsewhere.

Team participants will be asked to reflect on how they went from an idea to a team to a project, and what helped or hindered the project’s longevity and success.

Moderator: Liz Milewicz – Director, The ScholarWorks Center for Open Scholarship, Duke University Libraries 

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4:30pm – 5:00pm

Wrap-up and planning for the next day

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

8:30am – 9:00am

Announcements and organizing for the day, with coffee and light breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am

First breakout group session

We’ll break into working groups based on topics from Monday’s panels, to develop action plans that participants can take back to their home contexts to launch or support projects based around topics covered in that panel or scholarly communications issues more broadly.

Groups will be given a rubric with some information to document, that can serve as the basis for action plans for future work.

10:00am – 10:30am

Break

During the break, participants can walk around to other groups to learn about their draft plans, offer comments, discuss, and think about how anything they learn could be applied to their group’s work.

10:30am – 11:00am

Second breakout group session 

Reconvene with people from the first breakout group session to finalize plans for how to report out/tell others about your action plan and lessons learned.

11:00am – 12:00pm

Reporting out and discussion 

Each breakout group will have a few minutes to report out on their discussions and plans, with some time for Q&A.

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12:00pm – 12:30pm

Concluding remarks and next steps after TriangleSCI

Paolo Mangiafico – Director, Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute