Challenges to Publishing Your Work: Predatory VS Open Access Publications
Webinar Description
The stakes for publishing your work are high; choosing a journal and publication format are important decisions. Yet, how do you know when a journal is predatory? How do you avoid them? What are the monetary and professional costs of publishing in a predatory journal? And lastly, what does open access mean in terms of who can access, how is the work shared, and costs?
Objectives:
- Define the importance of choosing the right journal for your manuscript.
- Discuss the issues with publishing in a predatory journal and how this differs from publishing in a reputable journal and whether open access is right for your work.
- Demonstrate how to choose the right journal, how to know whether the journal is predatory or not and how to better understand the issue of open access.
Speaker
Jacqueline M McGrath, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAANThelma and Joe Crow Endowed Professor
Vice Dean of Faculty Excellence
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
Dr. Jacqueline M. McGrath has recently been appointed the Thelma and Joe Crow Endowed Professor and Vice Dean of Faculty Excellence at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, School of Nursing. In this role, she provides leadership and mentorship to optimize faculty excellence and success.
Research foci include integration of family-centered and developmentally supportive caregiving with premature infants and their families in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). More specifically, her work has focused on preterm infants’ oral feeding readiness, preterm infant touch and massage and optimizing parent engagement to increase parent self-management skills. She has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in both research and practice journals. Since 2014, Dr. McGrath has been the Co-Editor for Advances in Neonatal Care the journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN). In 2017, she received the NANN Lifetime Achievement Award for her commitment to excellence in neonatal nursing.
In 2007, Dr. McGrath became a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She received her BSN from the University of Akron; MSN from Kent State University in parent-child nursing; both a post-masters certificate as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. McGrath is an excellent mentor and teacher; she believes true leadership is seeing the brilliance in other people.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.Â
Continuing Education Credits
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.