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.
RSVP for in-person or virtual attendance.
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!
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)
