567: Open-Access Publishing
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 18 min
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Episode description
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.
In this episode you will learn:
- What it’s like to run the prestigious MIT Press [4:34]
- How open access makes scholarly work more impactful [6:34]
- How publishing outstanding STEM books for broader audiences, including for children, can help address STEM biases [19:28]
- Amy's award-winning documentary Picture A Scientist [25:28]
- What it's like to executive produce a documentary [37:24]
- What can be done to change STEM to make it more welcoming to minorities [48:44]
- The best open-source model going forward [58:26]
- What fascinates Amy about natural language processing [1:01:30]
- How author metadata in standardized taxonomies can help authors receive the credit they deserve [1:04:50]
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/567
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