Journals Roundtable and 4S Infrastructure Prize Session: EASTS in Conversation

Session Submission Type: Special Event

Abstract

4S’s 2018 Infrastructure Prize Committee has been awarded to East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (EASTS). The rapid development of EASTS into a journal with international distinction has resulted from both intellectual vision and organizational savvy. The session provides an opportunity to honor, learn from and leverage the EASTS example.

In this prize session, editors of diverse STS journals will participate in a dialogue moderated by 4S President Kim Fortun, recognizing the formative influence these journals will have on the field of STS in coming years. Roundtable participants will be asked to share their goals for their journals, how these goals have changed in recent years, past and anticipated challenges, and how they are positioning themselves in initiatives to broaden open access both to journals and to the data behind journal publications. Dialogue will also explore ways diverse STS journals can work collectively and synergistically, sustaining distinctive styles and missions while moving together to conceptualize and build supporting infrastructure. We will discuss potential roles for 4S in supporting a rich ecology of STS journals, and how 4S should partner with initiatives like Libraria and ELPub, and with movements for open scholarship and a knowledge commons.

The 2019 Infrastructure Prize Committee included Gloria Baigorrotegui (chair), Steve Jackson and Aadita Chaudhury.

Sub Unit

• Single Paper Submission

Session Organizer

• Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine