Schedule and Program for the 2024 Conference—Registration is free of charge.

Join us for 14th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference, which will be held as a hybrid conference on Thursday, October 10th, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm ET (in person and virtual) and Friday, October 11, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm ET (virtual only).

We are expecting 500 attendees, including ~100 in person attendees, and 21 presentations from ~40 publishing and library professionals and students from Mexico, Colombia, UK, and the United States.

The Full Schedule is now available—see the abbreviated schedule below.

Registration for the GW Ethics in PublishingConference is free of charge.

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Organized and hosted by the George Washington University Graduate Program in Publishing, College of Professional Studies, in collaboration with the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing.

Conference sponsors:
Association of American Publishers (AAP)
Association of University Presses (AUPresses)
Book Industry Study Group (BISG)
Council of Science Editors (CSE)
International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE)
Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

Additional sponsorship from Scholastica.

The GW Ethics in Publishing Conference is organized by Puja Telikicherla, Licensing & Subsidiary Rights Manager, American Psychiatric Association Publishing, and Adjunct Professor, George Washington University; and John W. Warren, Director and Association Professor, Master of Professional Studies in Publishing, George Washington University. Ethics in Publishing Conference Assistant, Taylor Dent.

Attendance (in person and virtual) to the conference will be free-of-charge. Lunch will be provided to in-person attendees, and a social hour will follow the conference. We look forward to seeing you, in-person or virtually!

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Abbreviated Schedule – See the Full Schedule and Program with Bios and Descriptions of all presentations

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2024 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

GW City View Room, Foggy Bottom Campus

Elliott School of International Affairs

1957 E Street NW Washington, DC 20052

And Virtual

9:00 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks

Puja Telikicherla, Licensing and Subsidiary Rights Manager, American Psychiatric Association

John W. Warren, Director and Associate Professor, Publishing, George Washington University

9:15 am – In Other Words: Addressing Language and Multilingualism

Says Who?: Language Discrimination in Academic Publishing

Stella Sanchez, MPS in Publishing graduate, George Washington University; Assistant Managing Editor, Aerospace Medical Association

Networks and Collaborative Alliances Towards Latin America

Edgar García-Valencia, Veracruzana University

Does the Editor Need to be a Translator to Offer Quality Multilingual Content?

Laura Rodríguez Mejía, Independent Editor, Proofreader and Translator

10:30 am – Advancing Editorial Equity in Scholarly Publishing

Moderated by Jennifer Regala, Associate Director, Publishing, Wolters Kluwer Health

Toward Decolonizing Knowledge Production in Global Public Health: Efforts by a Global Health Peer Reviewed Journal

Sonia Abraham, MA, Scientific Editor, Global Health: Science and Practice

Natalie Culbertson, Managing Editor, Global Health: Science and Practice, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Peter Waiswa, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Makerere University, Uganda, and Karolinska Institute; Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Global Health: Science and Practice

From Bias to Integrity: Fostering Equitable Science through Author Submission Guides and Policies

Steph Pollock, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Lead, American Psychological Association

Mia Ricci, Director of Publications Operations, American Geophysical Union

Cindy B. Veldhuis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Diversity in OA Publishing: What Does the Data Tell Us?

Casey Pickering, Director, Product Marketing, CCC

Increasing Diversity of Editorial Boards: A Literature Review and Case Study Analysis

Tammy Brodie, Editorial and Peer Review Coordinator, The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Elizabeth Brown, Editorial Coordinator, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

12:00 pm – Lunch

1:15 pm – Afternoon Welcome

Liesl Riddle, Ph.D., Dean, College of Professional Studies, George Washington University

1:30 pm – AI and Responsible Publishing

Moderated by Wendy Queen, Director, Project Muse

The Rights-Ethics Relationship in the Era of AI

Simone Taylor, Chief, Publishing, American Psychiatric Association

One Step Ahead: Proactive Versus Reactive Approaches to Avoiding Research Integrity Issues

Anna Jester, Director, Business Development, Wiley Partner Solutions

Jennifer Workman, Senior Business Development Manager, Wiley Partner Solutions

The Integrity Algorithm

Christopher Kenneally

2:30 pm – break

3:00 pm – From the Editor’s Desk

Moderated by Hind Berji, MPS in Publishing student; Managing Editor, GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing, George Washington University

How to Not Get Exploited as a Freelance Academic Editor

Bailey Harrington, freelance editor; part-time staff editor, Washington State University

From Funding to Publication: The Impact of the Geopolitical Landscape on Scholarly Communication

Andrew Bostjancic, Senior Manager Policy and External Affairs, Taylor & Francis Group

Nicko Goncharoff, Managing Director, Osmanthus Consulting

Ginny Herbert, Associate Publisher, Researcher Engagement and Experience, AIP Publishing

Protecting Their Innocence: Modifying Mature Content for Young Readers

Amy Hall, Amethyst Harbor, Inc.

Authenticity as Ethos: Why Diversity Alone Won’t Build Integrity in Publishing

Liliann Albelbaisi, Publicity Representative, Stirred Stories

Kelsea Johnson, Co-Founder, Stirred Stories

Redefining the Future of Peer Review: Black Stripe’s Community-Centered Practices and Their Impact on Open Access and Diverse Submissions

Mikayla Lee, MPS Publishing student, George Washington University

4:30 pm – Closing Remarks – Day 1

5:30 pm – In-person Social Hour to follow conference; location TBA

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2024 | 11:00 am – 4:00 pm – virtual only

11:00 am – Opening Remarks

11:15 am – Rethinking Peer Review

Moderated by Josephine E. Sciortino, Editorial Director, Canadian Science Publishing

Openness and the Ethics of Peer Engagement

Rebecca Kennison, Digital Content Editor, Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

AI in the Academic Context: Intellectual Property, Peer-reviewing and Editors’ challenges

Marco Giraldo Barreto, Editor in Chief, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano

12:30 pm – Collaborative Publishing

Advancing HBCU Scholarship, Diversifying Digital Publishing

Sara Jo Cohen, Editorial Director, University of Michigan Press

Clare Jones, Assistant Editor, Brown University Digital Publications

Diona E. Layden, Special Collections Librarian, Fisk University

La Tanya L. Reese Rogers, Associate Professor of Literature and Drama, Fisk University

Adventures in Digital Publishing: Opportunities, Challenges, Looking Ahead

Ana Maria Jimenez-Moreno, Acquisitions Editor, The Ohio State University Press

Allison Levy, Director, Brown University Digital Publications

Mae Velloso-Lyons, Associate Director, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University

Why Publishers Should Invest in Libraries to Cultivate Lifelong Readers

Rachel Kahn, MPS, George Washington University; Co-founder, Words for Libraries

Leo Postovoit; Co-founder, Words for Libraries

2:00 pm – break

2:15 pm – Updates from the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing

Lois Jones, Peer Review Director, American Psychological Association; Editor-in-Chief, GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing

Student Committee Leads, GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing

2:30 pm – Building an Inclusive Scholarly Publishing Workforce

Building an Inclusive Scholarly Publishing Workforce: What we are learning from the Workplace Equity Survey

Maribel Gomez, MPS in Publishing Graduate, George Washington University, Publishing Inventory Associate, CCC

Camille Lemieux, Manager, Data Projects, Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Springer Nature

Paige Wooden, Director of Publications, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

3:30 pm – Closing Remarks

The GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing proudly announces Gabrielle Bethancourt to the Editorial Board as the student representative to the board’s founding membership.

Gabrielle Bethancourt - photo — Gabrielle Bethancourt

Gabrielle is a second-year student in the MPS in Publishing program at GW. She holds a Certificate in Editing from the University of Chicago, and taught high school English for five years before assuming her current role as a technical writer/editor. Gabrielle obtained her BA in English from Tulane University and served as an Editor for the Tulane Literary Review. She currently resides in New Orleans with her husband and one-year-old daughter.

“It is an honor to be selected as the student representative on the editorial board,” says Bethancourt. “My time in GW’s MPS in Publishing program has already supplied me with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the publishing world, but this is a unique opportunity to advance industry standards in ethics. It is also a great privilege to work with such accomplished professionals in the field. I look forward to serving my student community as a representative and the publishing community at large with this new journal.”

Gabrielle joins board members Josephine E. Sciortino, Lois Jones and Julie Vo, who were announced earlier this month as inaugural members of the editorial board by Editor-in-Chief Randy Townsend.

“To successfully launch this journal, strong editorial leadership is critical, and it’s imperative to have student representation on the editorial board, working alongside publishing experts,” says John W. Warren, Director and Associate Professor of the MPS in Publishing program, College of Professional Studies. “Gabrielle’s contributions were important, as well as those of her peers, to the launching of this journal, and her accomplishments in the program make her a natural fit for joining the board. My vision for the journal has always been to provide opportunities for our students to learn the ends and outs of journal management, while contributing to the research and literature of ethics in publishing. Student support and enthusiasm for the journal has been remarkable.”

In addition to Gabrielle’s editorship, the journal is also launching student-run committees to target 4 key objectives.

Editorial, led by Giuliana Macaluso, will steward the fair, unbiased double-masked peer review of journal submissions, identify opportunities to recognize referee contributions, and develop guidelines to maintain journal integrity.

ePublishing, led by Jeremy Ottley, will develop and maintain the online journal presence, ensuring discoverability, appropriate indexing, and successful implementation of industry standards.

Marketing & Promotion, led by Emily Hatcher, will cultivate a strategy to raise visibility of the published content, helping further ethical discussions presented by authors, and ensuring the journal brand consistently reflects values of integrity, equity, transparency, and scholarship.

Strategy & Sustainability, led by Ashley Warren, will be the moral compass guiding the journal through industry disruption while establishing and protecting a legacy of excellence and a tradition of quality.

“With Gabrielle joining the editorial team and the formation of these four committees, we are honoring our commitment to offer real-world experience and leadership opportunities to the publishing students, strengthening and adapting skills to the development of the journal,” says Townsend. “These committees will help establish the journal’s personality and characteristics. I am inspired by the enthusiasm surrounding the journal and looking forward to publishing great content.”

The Journal of Ethics in Publishing, managed by students in the GW Publishing program, welcomes articles, case studies, and conference presentations from scholars, students, and publishing professionals on topics including, but not limited to, diversity and inclusion, accessibility, peer review, open access, sustainability, publishing metrics, equity, and other aspects and issues of ethics in publishing. If you are interested in submitting to the journal, please see the Call for Papers for more information.