
Don’t miss out on meeting editors and reps from international publishing houses like Emerald, IEEE, Clarivate Analytics and Wiley. Hear from faculty and librarians about publishing related topics.
- Why your manuscript was rejected and how to make it accepted
- Understand journal rankings
- Find out how to publish your scientific research
- Look at options in becoming a peer reviewer
- Don’t be fooled by a predatory publisher
- Learn about course material affordability options
- Get advice from your colleagues who share what they’ve learned in the process
- Network with your colleagues and other academics in our community
Registration is required. You can attend in person, online or request recordings—all done through the link below. Complimentary breakfast and lunch will be served. This event is open to NSU faculty, staff, students, alumni and the public.
Register to Attend:
In Person | Online | Recordings
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Registration – Outside Cotilla Gallery (2nd Floor)
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Complimentary Breakfast – Cotilla Gallery
8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks – Cotilla Gallery
9:15 am – 10:15 am
- Making Sense out of Journal Rankings (Emerald) – Room 2053
- Why research manuscripts are rejected and best practices to get to “accepted” (Wiley) – Room 3018
- When, Why, And How-To Peer Review Like A Pro (Clarivate) – Room 4009
10:30 am – 11:30 am
- Publishing Your Research with IEEE (IEEE) – Room 2053
- Hard Work Preys Off: Recognizing & Avoiding Predatory Publishing (CAHSS) – Room 3018
- Leveraging Course Material Affordability Options and Library-Subscribed Materials for Classroom Success (Barnes & Noble) – Room 4009
11:45 am – 1 pm
Complimentary Lunch
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
- Publishing Your Research with IEEE (IEEE) – Room 2053
- Hard Work Preys Off: Recognizing & Avoiding Predatory Publishing (CAHSS) – Room 3018
- Leveraging Course Material Affordability Options and Library-Subscribed Materials for Classroom Success (Barnes & Noble) – Room 4009
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
- Making Sense out of Journal Rankings (Emerald) – Room 2053
- Why research manuscripts are rejected and best practices to get to “accepted” (Wiley) – Room 3018
- When, Why, And How-To Peer Review Like A Pro (Clarivate) – Room 4009
Why research manuscripts are rejected and best practices to get to “accepted”
Rejection of your manuscript can cost you time, opportunity and frustration. Dr. Gwen Taylor has been an editor at Wiley for over 20 years and will describe the most common reasons why research manuscripts are rejected as well as some best practices on how to write your manuscript to achieve the fastest route to “accepted” and “published.”
Speaker: Gwen Taylor, PhD, Business Development Manager—Wiley Researcher Academy, Wiley Publishers

Publishing Your Research with IEEE (IEEE)
Learn how you can work with IEEE to communicate your research to others. IEEE’s Author Engagement and Support Manager, Tiffany McKerahan, will share insight into how peer review works, help you understand which IEEE author tools and services can support your writing efforts, and share valuable tips to help you write your article.
Speaker: Tiffany McKerahan, Author Engagement and Support Manager, IEEE Publications

Leveraging Course Material Affordability Options and Library-Subscribed Materials for Classroom Success
On average 60% of students try to delay or avoid purchasing course materials due to underusage and material costs. Often faculty and administrators try their best to drive student success and affordability through numerous tools and resources available here at NSU. Through the latest trends and opportunities in course materials, and a partnership with the NSU Bookstore and NSU Libraries, ways to drive down cost in materials is a real opportunity. This presentation will discuss the partnership with the NSU Bookstore and NSU libraries to help drive student success, explore opportunities that faculty have to create Open Electronic Resources (OER) and/or acquire OER and library subscribed materials for their classrooms, and how NSU can host OER content within the institutional repository, NSUWorks.
Speakers: Keri Baker, Librarian II, Oceanographic Campus Library, Nova Southeastern University; Andy Shaffer, Regional Manager, Barnes & Noble College; Steaven Nieratka, NSU Bookstore Manager

Hard Work Preys Off: Recognizing & Avoiding Predatory Publishing
Learn how to spot the signs of predatory publishing and strategies for securing your scholarship.
Speakers: Janine Morris, PhD and Eric Mason, PhD, & Mario D’Agostino, PhD, Department of Writing & Communication, College of Arts, Humanities & Social Science, Nova Southeastern University

Making Sense out of Journal Rankings
Participants will leave this seminar with a stronger understanding of journal rankings, including Impact Factors, CiteScore, and Altmetrics. Myths about these rankings will be de-bunked, and participants will be able to interpret a journal’s rankings within its category and against similar journals. The end result is that researchers will have be able to make better decisions on which journals to submit their articles to.
Speaker: Jessi Schatz

When, Why, And How-To Peer Review Like A Pro
Peer review is vital to the research ecosystem. You won’t be surprised to learn that peer reviewers are hard to find! And the growing number of research publications only exacerbates the reviewer shortage. The average manuscript is turned down twice before a reviewer agrees to evaluate it. These factors all equate to slower publication and innovation cycle times- something that affects us all. How do we solve this problem? For answers we’ll look to current peer reviewers and industry experts. Along the way we’ll learn about the advantages of being a peer reviewer, how reviewers got their start and what they learned along the way. We’ll also identify tools and practices that make tracking and publicizing your peer review efforts easy. This session will include a panel of veteran peer-reviewers and a Publons peer-review profile expert.
Speaker: Nicholas Mitchell, PhD., Solutions Specialist, Clarivate Analytics
Thank you to all of our sponsors!

This event is part of the Gear Up, Writing Workshops series.