Panel Discussion on Publications
Tue 11:45-12:45, Kongresssaal
Abstract
Our community is facing several evolutions that are challenging our publication system. The size of the community (and the number of submissions) is growing; the global landscape of scientific publishing is changing; many funding agencies are demanding open access; environmental concerns are affecting the participation to conferences…
Some changes have already been made to our publication system over the last ten years: FSE and CHES have moved to journal publications with (non-necessarily mandatory) presentation at the conference; the new “IACR Communications in Cryptology” journal has recently been launched; the RWC symposium without proceedings has been initiated.
But we need a higher-level discussion to agree on the publication system we want as a scientific community, taking into account the respective interests of authors, reviewers and readers.
The panel discussion will be centered around the following (broad) topics:
- How can the quality of publications be controlled and improved? How can we improve the reviewing process in a way that benefits authors, reviewers and readers?
- What business and funding models do we want for our publications?
- What is the purpose (and possible formats) of our conferences?
