2016 SSP 38th Annual Meeting
Concurrent 5C: Transparency and Openness: Stories from Stakeholders
Standards/Best Practices
Concurrent 5C: Beyond the research community itself, the issues of transparency and reproducibility are priorities at many of the major funders in the U.S. and elsewhere, including NIH and NSF, and the White House. This session will cover many aspects and perspectives on transparency. A discussion of community-driven transparency initiatives and services available to editors and publishers will follow, to demonstrate how, practically, we can make transparency a reality. Included in the discussion will be the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines (cos.io/top), Registered Reports format of publishing (https://osf.io/8mpji/), Badges to Acknowledge Open Practices (https://osf.io/tvyxz/), and open peer review. Publishers and editors will share experiences in implementing these initiatives in journals like eLife (as part of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology), Psychological Science and others.
Moderator: David Mellor, Center for Open Science
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Speakers
Helen Atkins, PLOS
Helen Atkins joined PLOS in 2013 as Director of Publishing Services. She has more than 30 years’ experience in scholarly publishing in a wide variety of roles. Prior to PLOS, Helen was Editorial Director at AACR, worked at HighWire Press, and Thomson/ISI (now Thomson Reuters). She serves on the Board of Crossref and is PLOS’ representative to NISO.
Eric Eich, University of British Columbia
Eric Eich is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. In July 2015, he began a five-year term as UBCs Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs. Previously, Eric served as Head of UBCs Psychology Department (2004-2011) and as Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science (2012-2015), one of the field’s leading journals.
Eric’s research is chiefly concerned with the interplay between cognitive and emotional processes. His specific research interests include: mood congruence and mood dependence in learning and remembering; memory impairments associated with bipolar affective illness; the cognitive correlates of dissociative identity disorder; and subjective, behavioral, and neural differences between field (first-person perspective) and observer (third-person perspective) memories. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science, Eric is a recipient of the UBC Killam Research Prize, the UBC Dean of Arts Award, and a two-time winner of the Knox Master Teacher Award.
Eric’s research is chiefly concerned with the interplay between cognitive and emotional processes. His specific research interests include: mood congruence and mood dependence in learning and remembering; memory impairments associated with bipolar affective illness; the cognitive correlates of dissociative identity disorder; and subjective, behavioral, and neural differences between field (first-person perspective) and observer (third-person perspective) memories. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science, Eric is a recipient of the UBC Killam Research Prize, the UBC Dean of Arts Award, and a two-time winner of the Knox Master Teacher Award.
Andy Collings, eLife Sciences
Andy Collings studied English at the University of Southampton and obtained a Masters in Publishing from Oxford Brookes, before joining PLOS in 2005. Andy helped to launch PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Genetics, and PLOS Pathogens, and he was the Editorial Manager for PLOS Computational Biology and PLOS Genetics before joining eLife in April 2012. Andy is eLife’s Executive Editor and works with around 300 editors, four in-house editorial staff, and a team of external suppliers to support and develop eLife’s peer-review process and journal policies.