PUBLISH: in what language? At what research stage? In which journal? Book, chapter or journal article?

FLOURISH: How to give voice to your themes and concerns? How to ensure quality, organise your text, find co-authors, find rephrasing techniques?

(DO NOT) PERISH: How to manage your time, create routines, organise your writing time and space, stay hydrated, do not forget to breathe … well, you get it!

Scholars around the world have (sometimes inadvertently) joined the race toward visibility, recognition and sustained career in the academia. Early career researchers may feel lost and confused as they receive conflicting messages: amidst the pressure to publish as much and as good as possible, they become aware that research quality and innovation take time and effort, while publishing-related anxiety and stress can take a toll on their health.

Simultaneously, international editors have established mechanisms and procedures to ensure the scientific quality of research publications (e.g. impact factors, peer-review) and continue a few other economic gatekeeping practices as well (e.g. pay-to-view; pay-to-publish). And, to top it all, open-access journals are a big grey area with different levels of quality and reputation. 

A renowned research Centre such as Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra has a great potential to keep advancing international research thanks to the current 468 PhD students, 61 junior researchers and 122 post-doc researchers at the Centre. That is why the Centre has invested efforts and resources in stimulating publications by introducing the specific internal support in translation, peer-review and editing. However, PhD students and junior researchers cannot access those services. So the burning questions and conflicting messages remain. 

How can young researchers find their way in the ever-changing world of research publications? How can they think big and contribute to the scientific publishing world?

We – fellow researchers and librarians – would like to help. We will not offer ready solutions nor promise to perform writing miracles. What we can do is to share information and practical knowledge of useful techniques and practices of writing, revising, editing, and publishing … hoping that it may help them become more at ease with writing about their research and interacting with academic publishers. 

Survive the stampede!

What? 
Clusters of workshops throughout the academic year + Final Symposium

When?
October, November, January-February, and April 2016
Final Symposium: June 2017

How?
Through presentations and hands-on sessions presented in 3 modules

Target audience:
Priority to early career researchers - PhD students and junior researchers (internal participants), post-docs and non-UC (external participants)

Number of participants: 
20 participants (max.) per session in Modules 1 and 2; up to 40
participants – Module 3 (Meet scientific editors and publishers)

Fees: 
25€ per module for internal participants, and 40€ per module for external participants

Working languages: 
English/Portuguese depending on the participants’ preferences, except
for some sessions in Module 2, which will be in English.

Invited speakers/coaches:

• CES researchers who have successfully published in different languages;
• Librarians and cultural/language policy researchers;
• Writing coaches, to share tips and some of their favourite techniques;
• Representatives of national and international publishing houses;
• International participants; International researchers.

November, 3 Catalogues and Databases Research  (9:30am-12:30am || 2pm-6pm), Room 2
November, 9 Citation norms and styles and bibliography organization (7 hrs.), Room 2
November, 10/11 Zotero & Mendeley bibliographic managers  (7 hrs.), Room 8
November, 16 Academic periodicals relevance and impact  (5 hrs.), Room 2
November, 17 Bibliometrics and altametrics: papers, reports and articles (7 hrs.), Room 2

The sessions (9h30-18h):
January, 23 Meet successful scientific writers; tips to get your writing started, develop routines, and to improve your scientific writing (7 hrs.)
January, 24 Academic Portuguese vs. academic English; learn to write in a good academic English; different genres (7 hrs.)
January, 25 How to structure a good scientific research paper - different approaches and writing clinic (7 hrs.)
February, 1-2 Revisions and transformations:  convert a paper into an article, articles into a thesis, a thesis into a book, etc.

Guests:
Ana Cristina Santos, Ana Raquel Matos, Antonieta Reis Leite, Fernando Fontes, Graça Capinha, João Arriscado Nunes, Joana Vieira Santos, Kate Torkington, Maria Raquel Freire, Mauro Serapioni, Nancy Duxbury, Olga Solovova, Patricia Taborda Silva, Rita Campos, Sidh Mendiratta

2 de maio | Encontros com autores: Dicas para melhorar a vossa escrita científica

Introdução e moderação – Joaquim Veríssimo
9h30-11h00 – Fernando Fontes: da ideia à tese, da tese ao livro. Problemas de tradução e questões éticas
11h15-13h00 – Nancy Duxbury: Editors’ perspectives. Visualization and mapping *
14h30-17h00 – João Arriscado Nunes: Da conceção da tese até à sua concretização

3 de maio | Ciências Sociais e Humanas, e as diferentes abordagens na organização da produção científica: Clínica de escrita

Introdução e moderação: Maria José P. F. Carvalho
9h30 – 11h00 – Olga A. Solovova: modos de finalizar e de defender a tese. Gestão do tempo.
11h15 – 13h00 – Patrícia Taborda Silva: práticas diversas de preparação de doutorandos para o mundo da academia internacional
14h30 – 17h00 – Graça Capinha: escrita académica, escrita criativa: da linguagem

8 de maio | Português académico vs. Inglês académico: Organizar a produção de textos

Introdução e moderação – Olga A. Solovova
9h30 – 12h30 - Joana Vieira Santos: Português académico: identidade do/a investigador/a e os variados discursos académicos
14h30 – 17h30 – Kate Torkington: Academic English/Academic Portuguese. Translate/ rephrase/ revise*

*Sessões apresentadas em Inglês.

9 de maio | Revisões e transformações: partilha de experiências

Introdução e moderação: Joaquim Veríssimo
9h30-10h30 – Sidh Mendiratta – blogues, Websites e grupos no Facebook como ferramenta de divulgação e visibilidade da pesquisa
10h30-11h30 - Ana Cristina Santos: Duas teses, dois livros: expectativas e práticas diversas com editoras nacionais e internacionais
11h45 – 12h45 – Rita Campos – Técnicas de comunicação escrita
14h30- 15h30 – Ana Raquel Matos: da tese aos artigos e aos capítulos em coautoria. Interação com editores
15h45-16h45 – Antonieta Reis Leite: da tese ao livro e para além de.

April 12
09:30-12:30 | Open Access and Estudo Geral* with Ana Eva Migueis (SIBUC e do Estudo Geral, Coordinator Librarian)
14:30-16:30 | Predatory Publishers: Trustworthiness? Prestige? Power? with Paula Sequeiros (CES-Researcher)

April 13
11:15-13:30 | Scientific Production & Impact: Metrics in science as support tools with Susana Jarmelo (Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Coimbra)

April 19
09:30-11:00 | Publishing and Peer Review: Interaction with publishers with Delfim Leão (University of Coimbra Press)
11:15-13:00 | Publishing and Peer Review: Interaction with publishers with Rita Cabral (CES Publishing: RCCS; e-Cadernos; CES-Contexto: Debates; CES-Contexto-Estudos)

(*Estudo Geral is the Digital Repository for the Scientific Production of the University of Coimbra)

Meeting other Scientific Publishing Houses Representatives: National & International
• Dealing with international publishers/editors;
• Peer-review process and comments;
• Strategies of submitting: how to select a journal or a book series for publication

May 24
10h -12h30 | Elsevier Publishing: Massimiliano Bearzot

May 31
9h30 -12h30 | Wiley Publishing: Sebastian Waingart

July 12
14h30-16h30 | Edward Elgar Publishing: Katy Crossan
Local: Room T2 - Dep. de Arquitetura da Universidade de Coimbra

Share your questions or suggestions here: survive_stampede@ces.uc.pt

The ideas collected in the virtual and physical boxes will help us to guide the practice sessions more according to your interests.