Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication NCSC 2008
Openness - trade, tools and transparency
21-23 April 2008, Scandic Star Hotel, Lund, Sweden
| Sun 20 April | |
| 19:00-21:00 | Reception, The Pillar Hall, Universitetshuset, Paradisgatan 2, Lund |
| Mon 21 April | |
| 11:00-13:00 | Registration |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-13:15 | Conference opening: Göran Bexell, Vice-Chancellor, Lund University |
| 13:15-14:00 | Opening speaker: Open Scholarship: Synergies between Open Access and Open Education Melissa Hagemann, OSI, New York, USA |
| Emerging tools for research evaluation |
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| 14:00-14:50 | Research evaluation within a new era. New challenges to determine benchmarks and reference values Ed Noyons, CWTS, Leiden |
| 14:50-15:20 | Judging Merit - The Value of Publications Ingegerd Rabow, Lund University |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee |
| 15:50-16:20 | Bibliometrics in the Nordic Countries – on the Library’s Home Turf Håkan Carlsson, Lund University |
| 16:20-16:50 | Access, Usage and Citation Metrics: What Function for Digital Libraries and Repositories in Research Evaluation? Chris Armbruster, Research Network 1989 and Max Planck Digital Library |
| 19:00 | Dinner at Scandic Star Hotel |
| Tue 22 April | |
| Emerging business models |
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| 09:00-09:45 | Open Access in particle physics: The SCOAP3 model Rudiger Voss, CERN, Switzerland |
| 09:45-10:15 | Coffee |
| 10:15-11:00 | A year of exciting developments for Hindawi Paul Peters, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Egypt |
| 11:00-11:45 | Open access: towards the mainstream Bryan Vickery, BioMed Central, UK |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:15 | Gold Open Access Publishing Among Scholarly Societies – some Nordic Experiences Caroline Sutton, Co-action Publishing, Norway |
| 14:15-14:45 | Coffee |
| 14:45-15:30 | Transformative Scholarly Publishing Models: Some Perspectives Lorelei Tanji, University of California, USA |
| 15:30-16:10 | Panel discussions |
| 18:30-00:30 | Dinner at Luftkastellet, Malmö (bus transfer from The Dome 18:30/Scandic Star Hotel 18:40, buses back to Lund leaves at 00:00) |
| Wed 23 April | |
| Emerging tools for data and text mining |
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| 09:00-09:45 | Languages in real time - new research data, web-distributed archives and the future of the semantic web Sven Strömqvist, Lunds University |
| 09:45-10:15 | Coffee |
| 10:15-11:00 | Integration of biomedical literature and databases Lars Juhl Jensen, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 11:00-11:45 | Added Value Services for Digital Document Resources: Information Extraction Technologies for Knowledge Discovery Martin Hofmann-Apitius, Frauhofer SCAI, Germany |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:15 | Data integration, text mining, and the culture of control John Wilbanks, Science Commons, USA |
| 14:15-14:45 | Coffee |
| 14:45-15:30 | Closing speaker: Changing the landscape - various ways of achieving open access Laurent Romary, Max Planck Institute, Germany |
| 15:30-16:00 | Conclusions |