Assessing Journal Quality: Prestigious vs Predatory Publications Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm S100 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower

Andrea M. Ketchum, MS, MLIS is a Research and Instruction Librarian and the Scholarly Communication Liaison for the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System (HSLS), with a secondary appointment as Faculty Librarian at Pitt’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). She teaches scholarly communication and data management and is a faculty member of the HSLS Systematic Review Workshop. As such, she presents classes and workshops on all aspects of academic publishing, research, research metrics, and public access management, often bridging the communication gaps between awardees and the NIH. She is currently co-chairing a new committee for the national Medical Library Association with support from the National Library of Medicine to update the MEDLINE Core Clinical Journals filter in PubMed. Her academic background is in Medical Informatics and Health Information Systems. She has served at HSLS since 2002.