Manuscript Accepted!: Collaborating on a scholarly publishing symposium for graduate students and early career academic faculty

Teresa Auch Schultz,Iñaki Arrieta Baro,Amy Shannon,Mitch Winterman,Amy Hunsaker,Rosalind Bucy,Chrissy Klenke

doi:10.7710/2162-3309.2385

Abstract

INTRODUCTION As academic libraries expand their scholarly communication support, they also need to find ways to help educate graduate students about this area as well as market themselves. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM The University of Nevada, Reno Libraries created a one-day symposium, called Manuscript Accepted!, aimed at graduate students and early career faculty that would use faculty and library expertise to lead panels and workshops. This article discusses planning for the event, including collaborating with other on-campus groups, working with publishers for financial support, and planning a program that would meet a variety of needs. Assessment of the first two symposiums, held in 2019 and 2020, shows that attendees valued the event while also highlighting the need for more targeted support for specific areas, such as the humanities. NEXT STEPS The Libraries plans to continue Manuscript Accepted! as a one-day symposium, although it will also look to ways to expand attendance. Finally, the Libraries is investigating ways to create smaller events that could be tied into the Manuscript Acceptance! brand but that help meet other needs of our attendees.

Highlights

As academic libraries expand their scholarly communication support, they need to find ways to help educate graduate students about this area as well as market themselves
STEPS The Libraries plans to continue Manuscript Accepted! as a one-day symposium, it will look to ways to expand attendance
University libraries are an essential component of academic research and scholarly publishing, having long offered services in support of literature reviews and evaluating journals to more recent areas such as open access (OA) publishing (Bruxvoort & Fruin, 2014)

Summary

INTRODUCTION

University libraries are an essential component of academic research and scholarly publishing, having long offered services in support of literature reviews and evaluating journals to more recent areas such as open access (OA) publishing (Bruxvoort & Fruin, 2014). This survey aimed to obtain information about what graduate students wanted to learn, and the results indicated they needed more information about the publishing process, including communicating with editors, selecting publications, improving their writing, and learning about publishing success With these results in hand, the Social Sciences cluster started to explore the idea of holding an event focused on the scholarly publishing process designed for graduate students and eventually early career faculty interested in research and writing as a new endeavor or in need of additional training. From those discussions, the Libraries formed a committee that included two liaison librarians from each cluster to review, plan, and execute a publishingrelated event scheduled for Spring 2019. This article will discuss the details of planning and executing the event as well as the challenges, takeaways, and future considerations for improvements

LITERATURE REVIEW

Survey Results