Universities and scholarly publishers share a mission – to help students publish high-quality research and advance the field. Through collaboration, universities and publishers can work together to accomplish their shared goals and at the same time advance the research careers of students. This presentation will look at the 2018 collaboration between Stanford University’s Science and Engineering Libraries and ACS Publications. In the spring, Stanford helps graduate students and postdocs “GearUp” by holding a half-day event. ACS Publications, through the ACS on Campus program, hosts professional development events on scholarly publishing and science communication to help students and researchers advance their careers. In April 2018, Stanford hosted an event with the theme “GearUp for Scientific and Technical Publishing” that included a session on Graphical Abstracts, an important part of any publication as they help users understand the research and play a key role in helping users find and choose which articles to read. A presentation did not exist prior to the event.  Stanford University and ACS Publications, through the ACS on Campus program, worked together to develop a 30 minute presentation and identify a speaker, a Senior Editor of <i>The Journal of Physical Chemistry</i>. Through this collaboration, Stanford University hosted a successful event with a session on graphical abstracts and ACS Publications was able to add the presentation to its program portfolio. Now the presentation developed by Stanford is shown to universities across the US and the world. Working together, Stanford and ACS Publications were able to accomplish their goals and offer a needed resource to young researchers.

Universities and scholarly publishers collaborating to help students and postdocs advance their research and get published

2019 Spring National Meeting

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