OHSLA Fall 2025 Program

Dear OHSLA Members,

We are excited to invite you to our Fall programming offering, featuring the CE presentation: 

Increasing Rigor and Promoting Open Science:
New Directions in Scholarly Publishing

Presenters: 

• Melissa Rethlefsen, AHIP, Executive Director and Professor, Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, University of New Mexico
• Stephen Gabrielson, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh

When: 

• Friday, November 21, 2025 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM ET (CE presentation to start at 10:00 AM ET)

Location: 

• Virtual  

Registration Fee: 

• $15/OHSLA Member, $20/Non-member, $10/Student
• We recognize that professional development funding has been cut for some, and it may be difficult to pay for this program. Any OHSLA member who would like to participate in this Fall CE program but is struggling with the cost can contact Anna Biszaha (biszaha.2@osu.edu) for assistance.  Identities of those requesting support will be limited to OHSLA Leadership and will not be shared in minutes or reports
  

Registration Link: 

• https://ohsla.info/event-6416688

Program Description:

If you follow science news, you know that researchers in every field are under pressure to increase the rigor and reproducibility of their work and to make their work and data open to all.

If you work in scholarly communication, you also know that the options of where and what to publish are changing rapidly and in confusing ways in response to this pressure. If you are looking for one webinar that brings you up to date with initiatives to incentivize new forms of scholarly publication and other innovations in scholarly communication, this webinar is it.

Melissa Rethlefsen, a researcher on reproducibility who has embraced pre-registration, preprints, and data sharing for her own scholarship, and Stephen Gabrielson, an experienced Scholarly Communication Librarian, will be your guides to the latest and most important developments in scholarly communication.

You’ll learn about open science initiatives designed to increase rigor and reproducibility and open scholarship policies and best practices. Researchers are now expected to publish their research methods, data, and code. You’ll get an overview of places they can publish these. You’ll also understand the important role of research outputs outside of traditional article publication, such as pre-prints, pre-registration, and protocols, in the new scholarly communications landscape.

What you learn will enable you to work more effectively and with greater confidence in advising researchers on the best outlet for their work. You’ll also be able to offer consultations and teaching sessions informed by knowledge of the latest developments and current trends in open science and approaches to improving the quality of research.

You’ll get lists of resources and have time to ask questions and discuss how to best use what you are learning.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe advances in scholarly communication
• Locate resources for publishing in innovative ways
• Explain how new methods of scholarly publishing impact openness and rigor

Please mark your calendars and join us for this informative session. We look forward to seeing you there!