Opening Plenary Session
Monday, July 22nd
9:00 AM Pacific (UTC-7)
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Retractions: On The Rise, But Not Enough
Friday, July 26th
8:00 AM Pacific (UTC-7)
- Ivan Oransky, MD
- Distinguished Journalist in Residence, New York University’s Arthur Carter Journalism Institute
- Co-Founder, Retraction Watch
- Martyn Rittman, Crossref
Abstract:
In 2000, there were about 40 retractions from the scholarly literature. In 2023, there were more than 10,000. That is a dramatic increase, even accounting for the growing number of papers published per year. In this talk, Ivan will explore the reasons for the increase, why it is good news, and why the real number should be even higher. Ivan will tell the stories of the sleuths who are finding problems in the literature, drawing on more than a decade of experience at Retraction Watch. Matryn will follow with some insights from Crossref’s recent acquisition of Retraction Watch and plans for its use.
Martyn Rittman, Product Manager at Crossref, will follow Ivan. Crossref is focused on documenting and clarifying the scholarly record in an open and scalable form. For a decade, members have been recording corrections and retractions through Crossref infrastructure. Collaborating with Retraction Watch augments publisher efforts by filling in critical gaps in our coverage, helps the downstream services that rely on high-quality, open data about retractions, and ultimately directly benefits the research community. Martyn will describe the value Crossref sees in the acquisition of the Retraction Watch database and plans for integrating it alongside the metadata provided by members.
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FSCI Campus Opening Plenary and Keynote
Monday, July 29th
8:30AM Pacific (UTC-7)
Welcome to the UCLA Campus, FSCI Attendees! In this in-person session, we will have an important introduction to the FSCI experience, with many logistical details discussed. Then, we will have Dan O’Donnell as our Keynote Speaker to speak about:
Academic Freedom, privilege, and intersectionality: Revisiting a core ethical requirement of transparent and open research in the contemporary academy
Daniel Paul O’Donnell, PhD
- Department Chair and Professor of English, University of Lethbridge
- Editor-in-Chief, Digital Studies/Le champs numérique
Abstract:
Academic Freedom is a sine qua non for ethical, open, and transparent research. It is a right granted to researchers, particularly in post-secondary institutions and public labs in order to ensure that, in theory, they can follow problems and develop solutions without fear of economic or political reprisal. Although this right is often traced back to somewhat similar protections in some medieval universities, Academic Freedom in the modern sense is, like so much of the contemporary university and research worlds, a much more recent development: it begins to be formalised in the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century and takes on its current form in many countries during the late 1960s and 1970s.
In recent years, these forty- to fifty-year-old definitions have come under increasing pressure, both from politicians and university/research managers who wish to impose stricter controls on the work of researchers and teachers at the post-secondary level, and from researchers, teachers, and students themselves who argue whether some forms of “protected” academic speech should be defended as unconditionally as in past decades.
In this session I present some preliminary research from a new project that is reexamining contemporary definitions of Academic Freedom in light of post-1960s developments in pedagogy and recent attention to issues of privilege and structural/intersectional bias. While it is too soon to have conclusion, I hope to identify some of the major trends at work in our understanding of this crucial right at this moment in history.
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FSCI Closing (and FORCE11 Conference Opening)
Thursday, August 1st
8:30AM Pacific (UTC-7)
To wrap up, we present some conclusions and reflections, as well as introduction to the FORCE11 Conference. Then we will have this keynote address:
Trust, Global and All That Jazz
Dr. Danny Kingsley, Director of Library Services, Deakin University
Dr. Leslie McIntosh, VP of Research Integrity, Digital Science
Abstract:
What do we truly mean when we discuss concepts like trust, risk, and sustainability? In a rapidly changing world where the pace of social media outstrips the time zones that divide us, how do we redefine ‘global’? As social media evolves, becoming an increasingly pivotal platform for our discourse, how can we foster deep, meaningful discussions and establish a global level of trust? These pivotal questions will steer a vibrant keynote dialogue between two leading thinkers in the open science arena, Drs Leslie McIntosh and Danny Kingsley. While we may not have all the answers, we anticipate a riveting exchange of ideas to inspire and challenge us all.
