Title: Looking Beyond the Journal Article: A Guide to Building Your Biomedical Research Toolkit Short title: Looking Beyond the Journal Article Instructors: Ariel Deardorff, MLIS, Data Services Librarian, University of California San Francisco; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8930-6089 Ibraheem Ali, PhD, Sciences Data Librarian, UCLA Biomedical Library; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3945-2701 Description: The last decade has seen an unprecedented boom in interdisciplinary and collaborative research. Along with this, there has been a significant effort to create robust platforms that streamline the research and publication process. In this course, we will take a look at the scholarly communication landscape for biomedical and STEM researchers. We will highlight key areas where new open publishing platforms streamline the research workflow. We will provide hands-on experience with research and data-publishing platforms to help scholars create collaborative protocols, manage research data and code, and learn preprints best-practices in competitive research environments. The goal of this course is to expand on FAIR data and reproducibility topics discussed throughout the week. This course will start with an overview of planning an open research workflow from the perspective of biomedical and STEM researchers and then dive into key tools and publishing platforms, including: Open access publishing and preprints best practices Methods and protocols publishing Code archiving Data publishing The course will consist of short virtual lectures followed by breakout discussions and hands-on practice with the tools. Active learning activities will give participants a chance to try out new practices and consider how these methods apply to their own research.