FAQs for NASIG Vision Speakers & Presenters
- Do Vision Speakers have to submit a paper?
Vision session papers are typically written by an assigned recorder, rather than the vision speaker. The recorder will attend the vision session, then write the paper as a near-transcription (“near” in the sense that some edits for clarity may be needed, but it should be as close to a transcription as possible) of a digital audio recording, which it is the Proceedings Committee’s responsibility to provide. Vision speakers will have the opportunity to edit the recorder’s article, and both will be cited as authors.
- Do Presenters have to submit a paper?
Presenters are not required to submit a paper for the Proceedings. The presenter will indicate on the Memorandum of Understanding signed and submitted in January or February whether they intend to submit a paper.
- Do Preconference Presenters have to submit a paper?
Preconference Presenters are not required to submit a paper for the Proceedings. The presenter will indicate on the Memorandum of Understanding signed and submitted in January or February whether they intend to submit a paper.
- How does NASIG credit speakers’ papers?
The article is first credited to the Presenter(s) then a Recorder, if any, is credited second. For copyright purposes, you are all considered multiple authors of a single paper.
- Do I need to give up my copyright?
No. Authors retain copyright of their articles, and authors are asked to assign Michigan Publishing the license to publish their work. Authors will have the following licensing and reuse options: CC-BY 4.0 or CC-BY-NC 4.0.
- Do I have to sign an author agreement?
Yes. Vision Speakers, Presenters and Recorders are all required to sign the NASIG Proceedings Article Publishing Agreement. Please review the NASIG Proceedings Article Publishing Agreement, which ALL Presenters and Recorders will be asked to agree to as a condition of presenting and publishing. When there are multiple authors, each author is required to submit a publishing agreement, along with confirmation that each person has agreed to the license to publish.
- What if there is a conflict between the Article Publishing Agreement and my institution’s authorship policies?
If you anticipate a conflict between your organization’s policies and the Article Publishing Agreement, please get in touch with the Conference Proceedings Editors at proceedings@nasig.org.
- What can I do with my post-publication paper?
Per the Article Publishing Agreement, proceedings authors retain copyright of their articles and are asked to grant Michigan Publishing a non-exclusive license to publish the version of record of an article. Authors agree not to publish the Work in print form prior to publication of the Work by the Publisher. Authors also agree to cite, by author, title, and publisher the original NASIG Proceedings publication when publishing the Work elsewhere. Reuse of the published work will be governed by a CC-BY 4.0 or CC-BY-NC 4.0 international license, per the author’s choice.
If you have specific questions about where you may post, not covered above, please contact the Proceedings Editors at proceedings@nasig.org.
- Are NASIG Proceedings published Open Access?
Volumes 70-82 (NASIG 2016-2021) were published open access on the Serials Librarian site at Serials Librarian site.
NASIG 2022-onward are published open access by Michigan Publishing at Michigan Publishing.
- What are my deadlines for submitting/reviewing the paper?
Generally about 6 to 8 weeks after the Conference. Contact proceedings@nasig.org if you have any further questions. Also refer to the Author Guidelines, updated year to year on the NASIG Proceedings Committee page.
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