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Scholarly Communications at Georgia Southern University

Resources and services to support faculty and graduate students' scholarly work from conception to publication and promotion

Metaliteracy: Scholarly Communications (MSC) Badge Track - Spring 2025

SPRING 2025 SCHEDULE (additional registration links forthcoming)

The Metaliteracy: Scholarly Communications (MSC) badge track assists faculty and graduate students with building knowledge of and skills in Scholarly Communications. Workshops will cover topics throughout the research and publication lifecycle: author identifiers and scholarly profiles; author metrics and impact; intellectual property; author rights & scholarly publication; and data management planning and curation services. Faculty can earn a digital badge by completing 4 or more workshops in this track.

Workshops will be offered as synchronous Zoom sessions. You may register on the Faculty Center's Training Page (or follow the links below) and the Zoom link will be shared with you by the Faculty Center:

Georgia Southern Scholars, the University’s new scholarly profile platform for faculty, is hosted on Elsevier Pure, the world’s leading research information management system (RIMS). Sometimes called “current research information systems,” RIMS provide robust reporting features that help researchers and institutions track and analyze research activity and impact, identify research trends and grant opportunities, focus institutional resources, and encourage collaboration. In this workshop, we cover the basics of RIMS and Elsevier Pure, then we take a deep dive into updating and enhancing your personal GS Scholars profile.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to: 1) describe the purpose and value of research information management systems (RIMS) to researchers and institutions, 2) evaluate the contents of their GS Scholars profile, and 3) update and enhance their profile to further promote their research identity.

In addition to GS Scholars and SciVal, participants in this workshop will become familiar with some tools and techniques to help distinguish their work from other researchers or scholars, and ways to enhance the promotion and dissemination of their work to others in their fields. Some examples include: author  identifiers, and online portfolios or profiles, to create a unique research or professional identity. Participants in the workshop will create a Google Scholar profile and/or claim their ORCID ID, or enhance existing profiles.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be  able to: Create  or edit an existing Google Scholar profile. Participants will be  able to: Claim their ORCID ID, or edit and enhance an existing ORCID record.

SciENcv is an electronic system that helps researchers organize and update biographical information for federal research applications. Grant applicants are now required to use SciENcv by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) for all applications. In this workshop, we cover the basics of using SciENcv, including  but not limited to importing information from ORCID and Google Scholar and creating, editing, and sharing Biosketches. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to  explain the purpose and use of SciENcv, as well as create a basic Biosketch.

Learning Outcomes:  This workshop is especially appropriate for researchers using SciENcv or creating Biosketches for the first time. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:  Explain the purpose of SciENcv and how it is used in federal grant submissions; and Create and populate a basic SciENcv Biosketch.

This search platform serves the academic community with key data on thousands of verified academic journals. An essential component of the Journalytics Academic suite is the new Predatory Reports integration. This feature provides information about 17,000+ predatory journals, ensuring users have the full rundown of opportunities and risks. This workshop will provide a walkthrough of the updated Journalytics Academic interface, with particular attention to Cabell's journal selection and predatory reports criteria.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to: 1) search Cabell's curated journal database for top journals in their fields by title, discipline, ISSN, and other search terms;  2) view data on specific curated journals, including metrics such as Scite Index and altmetric data; and 3) view predatory reports on specific journals, with details on deceptive, fraudulent, or predatory journal publishing practices.

Intellectual property (IP) is a mysterious legal topic which most believe only lawyers understand. This session provides an overview of IP for educators. It introduces the concept of the creator’s rights in relation to the consumer’s use of IP. Copyright, fair use, TEACH Act, plagiarism, trademarks, patents, and more are covered in this introductory badge track to IP.  NOTE: Follow-up library instruction sessions for advanced trademark and patent searching are available upon request after attending this session. 

Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will become intellectual property literate and be able to: Identify intellectual properties associated with their unique teaching, research, and innovation needs; Understand and apply various types of fair use when using others’ copyrights or trademarks for teaching, research, writing, and innovation; and Protect their own intellectual properties for teaching, research, writing, and innovation.

Your copyrights are a valuable asset. Whether you are vetting potential publishers, signing a copyright transfer agreement (CTA), or reviewing the terms under which you previously published your work, take the time to understand your copyrights and how to protect them. In this workshop, we will analyze a number of representative CTAs and reuse licenses (attendees are invited to bring their own!), then discuss strategies for preserving your copyrights throughout the publication process.

Learning outcomes: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be  able to describe their basic copyrights. Participants will be to: Analyze the impact of publisher copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) and reuse licenses on their ability to share and reuse their published works. Participants will be able to: Describe strategies for preserving their copyright and reuse permissions throughout the publication process.

Many funding agencies and publishers require that research data be made publicly available as a condition of funding or publication. In this workshop, we will discuss the basics of data management planning, sharing, and archiving with emphasis on attendee's current research. We will look at example datasets and discuss strategies for preparing and licensing data for open access.

Learning outcomes: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be  able to: 1) Describe current and developing trends in research data management planning and sharing in the context of grant funding and publication, 2) analyze and evaluate example data management plans and adapt them to their own research, and 3) describe basic practices for preparing and licensing data for open access.