ECSP2 Biomed

ECSP2 programme schedule Programme - PDF (coming soon)
Thursday 4 September 2008
18.45	Assemble outside the main entrance of the Oslo City Hall
19.00 - 20.30	Reception at the Oslo City Hall The city of Oslo has invited the delegates at the 2nd European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine to a reception at the Oslo City Hall. The City Hall is the building in which the Nobel Peace Prize is presented each year. It houses the city's administrative body, and is the seat of the City Council. Inaugurated in 1950, it has been decorated by Norwegian artists from the period 1900-1950, illustrating Norwegian history, culture and working life. Reserve a ticket when registering for the conference. (The number of participants limited to 150).

Friday 5 September 2008
Main auditorium in the Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo
8.30-9.00	Registration and coffee/tea
9.00-9.10	Opening and Welcome Arne Jakobsson, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, University of Oslo Library, Library of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norway Graham V Lees PhD, Chair of Programme Committee, TheScientificWorldJOURNAL, Finland, UK & USA
9.10-10.30	Part 1.1: All about Open Access Sijbolt J Noorda PhD & Graham V Lees PhD
	How to get to universal Open Access and why we want to get there Sijbolt J Noorda PhD, Chair for OA working group, European University Association, President of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	The progress of science: what hinders and what helps in an OA environment? Alma Swan PhD, Key Perspectives, UK
	Funding to authors for OA publishing Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy, Wellcome Library, Wellcome Trust, UK
	Paying for Open Access? Institutional funding streams and OA publication charges Stephen Pinfield, Chief Information Officer, University of Nottingham, UK
10.30-10.55	Coffee/Tea break
10.55-12.15	Part 1.2: All about Open Access
	Building the Research Web Kaitlin Thaney, Product Manager, Science Commons, Cambridge, USA
	Making the repository a researcher's resource Håkan Carlsson PhD, University of Lund & University of Gothenburg, Sweden
	Open access and the commercial biomedical publishers Michael Mabe, CEO, International Association of STM Publishers, UK
	Science Publishing: the future of journal publishing Graham V Lees PhD, TheScientificWorldJOURNAL, Finland, UK & USA
12.15-12.45	Round Table Making Your Work Open Access Chair: Alma Swan PhD Including contributions from the session speakers and: Matthew Cockerill PhD, Publisher, BiomedCentral, London Christian Gumpenberger, Novartis Knowledge Centre, Austria Jan Velterop, CEO of KnewCo Inc, Rockville, MD, USA
12.45-13.45	Standing buffet lunch in the Rikshospitalets atrium
13.45-15.25	Part 2: Scientometrics, Bibliometrics & the Quantitative Evaluation of Research: Evaluating Articles, People & Institutes Chairs: Anthony van Raan PhD & Howard Browman PhD
	Evaluation of Scientific Research by Advanced Quantitative Methods Anthony van Raan PhD, Professor of Quantitative Studies of Science, Director, Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands
	Beyond Impact Factors Mary Van Allen, Manager, Research Services Group, Thomson Reuters, USA
	The Usage Factor - can we develop a usage-based measure of journal utility? Richard Gedye, Chair of COUNTER & the UKSG Working Group on Usage Factor, and Research Director, Oxford Journals, OUP, Oxford, UK
	The use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance. Howard Browman PhD, Principal Research Scientist, Institute of Marine Research, Storebø, Norway
	What linking in CrossRef can tell us about research. Ed Pentz, Executive Director, CrossRef, USA & UK
15.25-15.50	Coffee/Tea break
15.50-16.35	Round Table: quantitative evaluation of research: the best or worst of worlds? Chair: Rune Nilsen DMD PhD, Professor in International Health, University of Bergen, Norway Including contributions from the session speakers and: Trish Groves MD, Deputy Editor, British Medical Journal (BMJ), London, UK Gunnar Sivertsen PhD, Norwegian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU-STEP), Oslo, Norway Niels Weertman, Director, Scopus, and Sijbolt J Noorda PhD, Chair for OA working group, European University Association, President of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Liselotte Højgaard,MD DMSc, Chair of the Standing Committee of the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC)
16.35-16.45	Break
16:45-17:30	Public lecture open to non-participants Public Access to Science is a Health Issue [Speaker TBA]
19.00-23.00	Conference Dinner at the Radisson SAS Hotel Nydalen, Nydalsveien 33, Oslo

Saturday 6 September 2008 Several parallel workshops of practical value to researchers will be held in the morning and in the afternoon. Place: Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway Programme:
8:50-9:00	Introduction to the Workshops Yvonne Hultman Özek, Co-Chair of Programme Committee, University of Lund, Sweden
9:00-11:30	Morning workshops:
	Workshop1 Open Access & Evaluating Research. Chairs: Rune Nilsen DMD PhD, & Gunnar Sivertsen PhD with speakers from the previous day’s sessions
	Workshop 2 Writing a Science Paper, Ethics & Plagiarism. Stephen Simpson PhD, Senior Editor, Science magazine, Cambridge, Howard Browman PhD IMR, Storebø Ed Pentz, CrossRef, Oxford
	Workshop 3 Web of Science & Journal Citation Reports. TBA, Thomson Reuters, Philadelphia Scopus: a means to evaluate research performance and scientific trends. Niels Weertman, Director of Scopus, Amsterdam Faculty of 1000. Pritpal S Tamber MBChB, Managing Director, Faculty 1000 Medicine, London
	Workshop 4 Integration of biomedical literature and databases Lars Juhl Jensen, Ph.D., Structural and Computational Biology Unit EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany.
11:30-12:30	Standing buffet lunch in the Rikshospitalet atrium
12:30-15:00	Afternoon workshops:
	Workshop 5 Entrez Databases Hands-on training. David Herron, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (limited number of participants)
	Workshop 6 What peer reviewers need to know. Trish Groves MD & Sara Schroter PhD, BMJ Training, London. (Max 30 participants)
	Workshop 7 Nature Precedings - a place for researchers to share pre-publication research. Hilary Spencer, Product Development Manager, New York HeRA (Helsebibliotekets Research Archive) - Open Repository solution for all Norwegian hospitals and health institutions. Sigrun Espelien Aasen, Research Librarian, and Hans Petter Fosseng, Web Editor, Helsebiblioteket Norwegian Electronic Health Library, Oslo
	Workshop 8 Societies and Open Access Publishing Caroline Sutton, Co-action Publishing, Norway

The programme will be subject to change.

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Arne Jakobbson (Chair)