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In This Issue

Invitation to Submit

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Submission/Review

Changes Page 2

Team Status Reports

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2015 Conferences

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Navigating Yahoo

Groups Page 4

The Holidays are fast approaching!

As we look to the New Year, we have many research teams in the COR

and IRB process. During the waiting time, you might want to consider be-

ing a peer reviewer. I am a peer reviewer for the International Journal of

Scholarship and Teaching and Learning. I was asked to review research

articles because I submitted an article to their journal. One way to promote

your research is to publish articles and be a peer reviewer. Take a look at

the article from Wyvern Publishing Group. They are looking for articles

and peer reviewers. If you do become a peer reviewer, remember to add this

to your resume. This is something that I forgot to add to mine, but it is on

my list of things to do.

Enjoy the newsletter!

Volume 1 Issue 10 November/December 2014

Letter from the Editor by Mary McWilliams

Lots and lots of resources and reasons to be optimistic are contained in these

pages! As writers and researchers (and educators!) we toil and wait, toil fur-

ther and wait longer, hoping that our efforts will be realized on the printed

page to share our results with others. Sometimes it seems like waiting is far as

we get. But the worst thing to do is to stop. When we stop, we get discour-

aged. When we get discouraged, we no longer want to try. When we no long-

er try, we serve no one, not ourselves, not others. We need to keep moving. In

this issue are resources and encouragement to keep moving. Find an invita-

tion to peer review and publish, see the status reports of FRG groups. Be sure

to note the inspirational quotes on this page and page 4. We’re also starting

to publish info on 2015 conferences. Thanks to Linda Long for passing on an

article on one academic’s solution to the frustrations of publishing.

When your group receives word on your proposal, be sure to email me at

mmcwilliams19@yahoo.com so we can publish your great news!

Opportunities Abound in FRG by Wendy Schweitzer, Acting CEO

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Changes in UPOX submission and review process

By Louise Underdahl, MSLS, MPA, PhD, Chief Research Officer, Faculty Research Group (FRG) The University of Phoenix has transitioned to IRBNet. Student and faculty researchers are able to

access formal registration and submission guidance from the IRBNet Portal at IRBNet.org

What is IRBNet? IRBNet is an online platform for the submission and review of IRB applica-

tions. IRBNet was developed in 2001 as part of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) program for Human

Subjects Research Enhancement Awards.

Why IRBNet? IRBNet is an industry standard solution and is used by many research organiza-

tions, such as universities, healthcare systems, and other institutions with IRBs that oversee human sub-

jects research compliance activities.

Benefits of IRBNet: The IRBNet online platform is available anywhere and anytime with a Web

browser and Internet connection. The IRBNet secure system facilitates a simplified and efficient submis-

sion and review of IRB applications. IRBNet training materials and videos, as well as IRB forms and guid-

ance, are embedded into the online platform to support researchers through the IRB submission pro-

cess. In addition, communication between IRB reviewers, staff, board members, and researchers is docu-

mented within the system to foster transparency during the review process. IRBNet allows researchers

using working with multiple research communities to share information across IRBs enabling an integrat-

ed review.

FRG teams moving along; awaiting proposal reviews

Here is an update on current team ac-

tivity as of November 2014:

Finalizing proposal: Business * Faculty Turn-

over * Learning Teams * Student Preparedness

* Workplace Bullying

Proposal/IRB being reviewed by UOPX:

Disabilities * Discussion Questions *Gov Regs

* Social Media * Stressors *Transformative

Learning

Research teams that want to use UOPX stu-

dents and faculty must pass the Committee on Re-

search (COR). Once they pass the COR then they

must submit an IRB application via IRBNet. Teams

that are not using UOPX students and faculty must

submit an IRB application via IRBNet. Both the

COR and IRB have online applications.

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Helpful Links For more information on submit-ting and reviewing to Wyvern Publishing and International Journal Scholarship and Teach-ing, see these links:

Wyvern Publishing submission

process:

http://

www.wyvernpublishinggroup.com

/submission-process/

To be a peer reviewer for Wy-

vern, see: http://

www.wyvernpublishinggro

up.com/journals/.

International Journal Scholar-

ship of Teaching and Learning :

http://

digitalcom-

mons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-

sotl/review_process.html

Wyvern invitation to submit and review

Greetings, Faculty Research Group, The Wyvern Publishing Group proudly announces four new scholarly publications! We hope that the

following become your research group's platform to publish in peer reviewed, open access, online and print

journals:

Journal of Systemic Issues in Criminal Justice & International Security

Journal of Perspectives in Organizational Behavior, Management, & Leadership

Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education & Educational Leadership

Journal of Emerging Trends in Healthcare Administration

We aim to develop journals that appeal to scholarly practitioners as well as research academi-

cians. Authors can contribute with articles illustrating:

Research results * Projects * Methodologies * Conceptual papers * Reviews and surveys * Case studies

Each submitted manuscript is evaluated using a double-blind peer reviewed process with comments

and suggestions provided for refinement prior to publica-

tion. Manuscript submissions should be original work which has not

been previously published or currently in consideration by other

journals. All papers must adhere to the style and ethics of the jour-

nals. Upon publication, authors receive a Certificate of Publication for

each published paper. Plans are underway to secure indexing data-

bases for easy retrieval and archiving to ensure the long-term preser-

vation of the digital content.

Submit your work soon for consideration in an upcoming is-

sue.

We are also looking for peer reviewers for each journal –

requirements include a terminal degree and previously published in

an academic journal. See the Wyvern Publishing Group website for

more details.

We look forward to working with your organization!

By Louise R. Cooper, Managing Editor, Wyvern Publishing Group

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by Avi Wolfman-Arent In 2011, Tim Peterson was your archetypal frustrated academic. He’d just landed a paper in the journal Cell but

had grown disillusioned with the publishing process after nine months of back-and-forth among his team, the re-

viewers, and the editors.

“I was just totally disgusted by the whole process,” says Mr. Peterson, now 37, and working as a postdoctoral fel-

low in biology at Harvard University. “I remember when I stood up and said I don’t want to be a part of this any-

more.”

So Mr. Peterson began to think. Then he taught himself to code. And finally, on May 14, all that thinking and

coding converged to form a website, Onarbor. The site is intended as a publishing and funding platform for academ-

ics, kind of like a Kickstarter for scholarly work. Among its features is that it allows donors to support projects

with either Bitcoin or Dogecoin, two popular cryptocurrencies. Onarbor is designed to circumvent the traditional

mechanisms of peer review by fostering a community of user-reviewers modeled on the popular tech-help

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Need help navigating around the FRG Yahoo

Groups? See these Help Files.

Yahoo Group Help

http://help.yahoo.com/kb/

index;_ylt=Ans0ACnAmY9xTHJNhk.ewCS5OSV4?

locale=en_US&page=product&y=PROD_GRPS

Introduction to Yahoo Groups

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buSoEg0Ckx0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUWKml6H7Ik

Finding Your Group

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t5lqTubxcA

Changes Messages Settings

http://voices.yahoo.com/video/yahoo-groups-changing-message-

settings-298302.html?cat=7

Sharing files

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0c1Ns_Ez70

Calendar

http://help.yahoo.com/tutorials/cal/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPHOWV6WVug

Frust rated scholar creates new way

to fund and publ i sh academic work

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FRG BO ARD

O F DIRECTO RS

President

Michelle Susberry chelle638@email.phoenix.edu

Vice President

Marcus Anderson msandersonjr@email.phoenix.edu

Secretary

Vita Alligood valligood@email.phoenix.edu

Treasurer Michael Seller

mslw1@email.phoenix.edu

Send us your

information!

What is your team doing?

Are you working on a new project?

Had a career advance-ment?

Presented at a conference?

Need help? Have ques-tions?

Want to write a column?

Want to write a blog?

Contact Mary McWilliams, editor at mmcwilliams19@yahoo.com

January/February

newsletter deadline:

Friday, January 2 @ 5

pm est

COMMITTEE PROJECT MANAGERS

Research Group Project Manager E-mail

Business Jennifer Schneider dschnei1122@yahoo.com

Disabilities Christina Godard cgodard411@email.phoenix.e

du

Faculty Turnover Karen Wilson kwilson6@email.phoenix.edu

Government Regulations Louise Underdahl (Interim) lunder-

dahl@email.phoenix.edu

Learning Teams Christopher Page cjpage@email.phoenix.edu

Student Preparedness Jean Petrie Petrie.jean@yahoo.com

Social Media Steve Wyre Steve.wyre@gmail.com

Stressors Shelah Schenkel shelahschen-

kel@email.phoenix.edu

Workplace Bullying Timar Stephenson timarstephenson@yahoo.com

Transformative Learning Elisabeth (Alfie) Weinbaum wein-

baume@email.phoenix.edu

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The Exchange Conference Intellectbase International Consorti-um For registration and submission guidelines see http://intellectbase.org/index.php Academic Conference, Fort Lauder-dale, FL February 20-22 Deadline for early registration ($395), student registration, additional au-thors, and conference attendee: Feb. 3; Normal registration ($450): Feb. 4-19; Submission deadline: Feb. 7 Houston, TX Academic Conference, March 12-14 Deadline for early registration ($395), student registration, additional au-thors, and conference attendee: Feb. 23; Normal registration ($450): Feb. 24-March 11; Submission deadline: March 2 Nashville, TN Academic Confer-ence, May 21-22 Deadline for early registration ($395) May 3; student registration, additional authors conference attendee: May 10; Normal registration ($450): May 4-25; Submission deadline: May 10 Bangkok, Thailand Academic Con-ference, July 15-16 Deadline for early registration ($395) June 18; student registration June 18, additional authors June 24; Normal registration ($450): June 18-July 12; Submission deadline: June 22 Atlantic City, NJ Academic Confer-ence, August 13-14 Deadline for early registration ($395) July 27; student registration, addition-al authors conference attendee: July 27; Normal registration ($450): July 28-Aug. 12; Submission deadline: July 26

The Academic Forum For additional information, see http://theacademicforum.org/ Spring Conference March 22 - 25, 2015, at the Marriott CasaMa-gna, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Paper submission deadline: Feb. 15

2015 Conferences

website Stack Overflow. There, users earn reputation points based on

the quality of their responses. Mr. Peterson thinks this crowdsourced

review system will be more efficient and more comprehensive than the

traditional method. “It’s algorithmic reputation building. It’s far better

than three people in a room deciding whether or not they like your

work,” he says. “It’s the sum of thousands of thousands of people saying

your work is good or bad.”

Mr. Peterson describes Onarbor as a “start-up university” that allows

scholars to finance and publish new ideas—what he calls academe’s

“core mission”—without institutional handcuffs. In practice, the prod-

uct is still messy. Some people, he says, are using the site to sell T-shirts.

Others have posted artwork. He doesn’t want to police what people

publish, especially in the early going.

The site has had 20,000 page views since launching, just over two

weeks ago, Mr. Peterson says. About 200 projects have been posted by

the site’s roughly 1,000 registered users, he estimates, with contributions

totaling about $5,000. Onarbor takes about 10 percent of each contribu-

tion.

Most of the interest so far, he believes, has been from cryptocurrency

enthusiasts, not academics. Mr. Peterson introduced Onarbor last week

on a subreddit dedicated to Bitcoin, sparking a fervent online conversa-

tion that covered such topics as the purpose of cryptocurrency and the

ethics of academic fund raising in nontraditional settings.

While shepherding the site’s growth, Mr. Peterson says he’ll post

some of his own work, too, although he’ll reserve some for the academic-

publishing process he loathes. “In order to progress in my job, I need to

play by the rules a little bit,” he says.

This isn’t the first time crowdsourced fund raising has linked up with

academe. The websites Experiment.com (formerly Microryza)

and Petridish.org allow users to back science-based research. There have

also been prominent instances of academics’ using mainstream crowd-

funding sites, like Kickstarter, to aid research. Even students have

tapped into the power of the crowd, with some petitioning online us-

ers to help ease tuition costs.

Mr. Peterson’s site goes a step beyond crowdfunding by providing

both a publishing platform and an outlet for review. But at root he’s still

hoping to harness the energy of the Internet masses to determine what’s

worthy of support and what isn’t. As he puts it, “You can’t fake 5,000

people liking your stuff if it isn’t any good.”

This entry was posted in Digital Humanities, Publishing, Research, Startups.

Frustrated scholar (continued from page 4)

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FRG ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

Mary McWilliams mmcwilliams19@yahoo.com

Open

Hilary John-

son-Lutz

Lydia Kerr lwk-err@email.phoenix.edu

Lynette Favors hr@facultyresearchgroup.org

Louise Underdahl cro@facultyresearchgroup.org

Wendy Schweitzer cmo@facultyreserachgroup.org

Open

Steven Wyre coo@facultyreasearchgroup.org

Michelle Susberry, President

Marcus Anderson, Vice President

Vita Alligood, Secretary

Michael Seller, Treasurer

Amy Adolph ceo@facultyresearchgroup.org

As of Sept. 17, 2014