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Scholarly Publishing in 2024: A publisher’s perspective

Patrick Franzen
Director, Publications & Platform
SPIE

Abstract

Scholarly publishing is critical to disseminating knowledge and includes all published outputs resulting from research, including books, conference proceedings, journal articles, preprints, and other content types. Communicating your results through these outlets is an investment in your career and an investment in your community. This talk will explore the dynamic scholarly publishing landscape focusing on optics and engineering disciplines, highlight best practices for researchers, and discuss recent and upcoming industry changes that will impact researchers and publishers alike. Topics will include the emergence of AI, metrics and Impact Factor, Open Access and funding mandates, predatory journals, unethical publishing practices, and more.

Biographical Sketch

Patrick Franzen is Director, Publications & Platform for SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, where he is responsible for driving business strategy and innovation across the SPIE suite of publications activities including proceedings and conference content, journals, books, and multimedia. He is also an elected member of COPE Council, the Committee on Publication Ethics.

 

Past Speakers

Date Speaker Group Summary
9/12/2024

Jed Hancock

Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University

Exploring Atmospheric Gravity Waves: NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment on the International Space Station
6/13/2024

Matthew Birkebk

Labsphere

Fundamental Calibrations for Remote 
Sensing Sensors Using Integrating Spheres
11/30/2023

Stefan Heinemann

Phix, North America

Packaging technologies of integrated photonics for quantum technology
4/27/2023

Allison Barto

Ball Aerospace

Engineering Discovery: Building NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
3/30/2023

Thomas Coleman

Silixa, LLC

Fiber optic distributed sensing for environmental and infrastructure monitoring
3/23/2023

John Howell

Chapman University

Doppler Gyroscopes: Do we really understand the gyroscope?
2/16/2023

Krishna Rupavatharam, Ph.D.

Spectrum  Lab

Perspectives on the evolution of microwave and quantum photonics at Spectrum Lab
2/9/2023

John W. Sheppard, Ph.D., FIEE

MSU Gianforte School of Computing

Demystifying machine learning through eXplainable AI
1/26/2023

Finland Photonics

Finnish Photonics Cluster

Photonics in Finland
12/8/2022

Nicholas Borys. Ph.D.

MSU Physics

An introduction to the MonArk NSF Quantum Foundry
10/12/2022

Alex Hills

Carnegie Mellon University

Mitigating LEO-to-GEO satellite interference
4/14/2022

Stephen Schultz

Brigham Young University, Electrical & computer Engineering

Dynamic measurement of soft body armor using optical fiber sensing
3/31/2022

Bradley Whitaker

MSU Electrical & Computer Engineering

How machine learning can help scientists who shoot fish and insects with lasers
2/24/2022

Tom Hausekn

Optica

Hot topics in optics and photonics
2/25/2021

Jim Webb1 & Scott Wohlstein2 

1 G.L. Services, Hertfordshire, England
2 The Photonics Group,West Chester, OH

Using the LaserSafePC software for laser safety calculations 

Video
2/4/2021

Brian D'Urso 

 MSU Physics Department

Towards precision pulsed levitated optomechanics in a magneto-gravitational trap
1/21/2021

Wataru Nakagawa

 MSU ECE Department

Nanophotonics Applications and Sabbatical Exploration

Video
1/14/2021

Nathan Kuehl

Bryan Scherrer

 MSU Physics and ECE Dep'ts Kuehl: Troubleshooting, repair and calibration of Burleigh WA-1500 Wavemeter.

Scherrer: Model and simulation of wing-beat modulation lidar for making 3D maps of flying insects .

VIDEO
11/19/2020 Dr. Charles Kankelborg MSU Physics Department

Designing a far ultraviolet spectrometer for the sun as a starAbstract
Video
11/12/2020 Dr. Ioannis Roudis MSU ECE Department  Nonlinear noise in coherent optical communications systems    Abstract
4/09/2015 Dr. James G. Wessel Seagate Corporation Hard Disc-Drive Recording
3/19/2015 Dr. Jake Jacobsen Synopsys, Optical Solution Group A review of optical design software at Synopsys
2/05/2015 Dr. Mark A. Wistey ECE Department, University of Notre Dame Paths to record lasers and solar cells--and on cheap silicon
11/24/2014 Dr. Olav Solgaard ECE Department, Stanford University Miniaturized endoscopes and implantable sensors for in-vivo studies of cancer biology
11/6/2014 Dr. Kirk Knobelspiesse NASA Ames Research Center Cloud thermodynamic phase detection with polarimetrically sensitive passive sky radiometers.
10/30/2014 Dr. Kris Merkel President & CEO S2 Corporation, Bozeman, MT S2 Extreme Bandwidth Analyzer and Correlator (EBAC):Updates on Improvements and Demonstrations
11/14/2013 Dr. Upendra Singh NASA Langley Research Center Development of a pulsed 2-micron integrated-path differential absorption lidar for CO2 measurements
10/31/2013 Qing Gu University of California - San Diego Semiconductor nanolasers for dense chip-scale integration
9/16/2013 Dr. Jim Schwiegerling College of Optical Sciences - University of Arizona Leading edge optics for optimizing vision
5/14/2013 Dr. John Egan Advanced Photonic Crystals The benefits of low temperature hydrothermal crystal growth
4/25/2013 Dr. Edwin ("Ted") Heilweil National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Time-resolved terahertz studies of carrier dynamics in P3HT and zinc-phthalocyanine/C60 nanolayered thin films
2/26/2013 Dr. Larry Johnson and Dr. Mark Carroll Newport Corporation Part 1. Overview of laser diode technology and applications; Part 2. Job opportunities and desired skills for graduates at Newport/ILX Lightwave
2/8/2013 Dr. Toralf Scharf Institute of Microtechnology, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland From achromatic microlenses to submicron focusing: physical optics at the micro-scale