Hi Beverly, You should take a look at the
Center for Open Science. They have an interesting publication model that allows for peer review of methods, prior to the experiment, and then publishes positive and negative results.
Protocols.io can also provide a way to publish methods (and obtain a doi for them). And don't for get about our own
JBT, which publishes methods and other developmental protocols. But I agree, these are good topics that could make up a session that would allow dissemination of these tools and brainstorming about other needs. The upcoming
ABRF Town Hall will discuss tools that the
Core Marketplace (do you have an rrid for your core??) and
SciCrunch have to assist with these issues, too.
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Roxann Ashworth
Laboratory Director
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore MD
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-05-2022 04:03
From: Beverley Rabbitts
Subject: ABRF Program Content for 2023 - what keeps you up at night?
Topic of interest:
Alternative publication mechanisms
I've been looking into other ways to get publications for: proof of productivity, disseminating potentially useful resources, claiming an innovative idea as yours.
So far I've come up with:
- there's a way for coders to get a DOI for their code (I'm not a coder though)
- RRIDs for tracking use of antibodies
- Addgene submission for a plasmid
I spend a lot of time optimizing methods with users. Sometimes a lot of intellectual work goes into figuring out a solution or optimizing something. That work could potentially never get published (led to very nice but negative results), or get published buried in the methods of the user's research paper several years later when the methodology idea is no longer fresh, or else the work went into a publication where the core was never an author, acknowledged, cited or anything. And usually it's not such a ground breaking development that it can get a proper publication of its own - often it's an established method that took some investment before it was working in our hands.
How can I get official recognition for my ideas and effort? Something that can go on a resume or the core's track record? How can I share the protocol or resource through an official channel for letting others access? How can I do this in a timely manner before it's gone stale? Regardless of whether the user's results were positive or negative.
When I worked in C. elegans there was the very informal "Worm Breeder's Gazette" that took bite-sized stories but I don't know of anything like that in my current field of microscopy/high throughput/drug discovery.
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Beverley Rabbitts
Director of Operations
UCSC
Santa Cruz CA
Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2022 13:05
From: Ken Schoppmann
Subject: ABRF Program Content for 2023 - what keeps you up at night?
August 2, 2022
Hello Everyone,
ABRF members come together to share suggestions and resources to help them address common challenges. ABRF's leadership seeks to develop programs and activities that help members collaborate and learn about current best practices and potential solutions.
Your help is welcome to identify topics for new programs, to be delivered in one or more of these formats:
- ABRF Meetings
- Education programs
- Journal (JBT) content
- Chapter events
- Town Halls
- Sponsor-led programming
- Online forums/communities
- Peer-to-peer discussions
Some potential topics could include:
- Staff recruitment and retention
- Current technology developments by subject area
- genomics
- imaging
- flow cytometry
- mass spec
- proteomics
- Rate setting
- Challenges for single-staff Cores
- Core recognition
- Collaborating with other researchers
- Managing users' expectations
- Identifying and gaining support for professional development
- Instrumentation grants
- Promoting Authorship
- ?
What other issues are you facing in your work? Do you think other members may be facing similar issues?
Everyone is invited to add their suggestions in this discussion. The first 50 people to add new, original suggestions will be entered into a drawing, with one person selected to receive complimentary membership for 2023....
(How quickly do you think we can generate these ideas?)
Thank you for your help.
Ken Schoppmann, CAE
Executive Director
ABRF
201 E Main Street, Suite 1405
Lexington, KY
ken.schoppmann@abrf.org
859-514-9835
abrf.org