SDS 567: Open-Access Publishing

<p>In this episode, the MIT Press Director and Publisher, Dr. Amy Brand, joins Jon Krohn to discuss open-access publishing in data science and how to address the inequalities that exist for women and minorities in STEM.</p><p>In this episode you will learn:<br/>• What it’s like to run the prestigious MIT Press [4:34]<br/>• How open access makes scholarly work more impactful [6:34]<br/>• How publishing outstanding STEM books for broader audiences, including for children, can help address STEM biases [19:28]<br/>• Amy&apos;s award-winning documentary Picture A Scientist [25:28]<br/>• What it&apos;s like to executive produce a documentary [37:24]<br/>• What can be done to change STEM to make it more welcoming to minorities [48:44]<br/>• The best open-source model going forward [58:26]<br/>• What fascinates Amy about natural language processing [1:01:30]<br/>• How author metadata in standardized taxonomies can help authors receive the credit they deserve [1:04:50]</p><p>Additional materials: <a href='https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.superdatascience.com%2F567&amp;token=336a4-1-1650277293911'>www.superdatascience.com/567</a></p>