EVENT ROUND-UP
SOUTH CAROLINA DANCES TO LIBRARIANS’ TUNE
S
ince 1980, the city of Charleston has hosted the ‘Library Conference’, with attendance growing from just 20 in its first year to more than 1,500 in 2015. Librarians, researchers and representatives of the scholarly publishing industry once more descended on the city en masse for this year’s event, held at four central venues. Companies from throughout the sector took part in a vendor showcase on the first
Research Information provided a ‘live tweet’ service
day of the event, with delegates keen to catch up on the latest products and industry developments affecting them. There then followed three days of presentations and debates on subject areas as diverse as ‘The Value of Libraries’, ‘The Secret Life of Articles’, Star Wars in the Library, and ‘Privacy Explored’. The
The city of Charleston hosted 1,500 delegates
perennial themes of access, visibility, and discovery were explored at length in many presentations.
Research Information provided a ‘live
tweet’ service from the conference, and a fuller report appears on our website. We strongly recommend readers consider the Charleston Conference in future years!
STM CONFERENCE SERVES UP RICH VARIETY OF DISCUSSIONS
Frankfurt once again hosted the annual conference of STM – the global trade association for academic and professional publishers – with organisers proclaiming that it was the busiest- ever such event.
Delegates from publishing businesses around the world crammed into the meeting room of the city’s Westin Grand hotel for the keynote speech by Robert Hariri, founder of Celgene Cellular Therapeutics. While much of the speech centred on the fascinating area of cellular therapeutics, Hariri stressed the fact that much of the work in this field was informed and driven forward by the information
industry, with data and research key to its development.
The second presentation, a panel discussion on communications, was expertly moderated by Grace Baynes of Springer Nature, with the panel itself made up of Fred Dylla of the American Institute of Physics; Caroline Sutton of Co- Action Publishing; Richard Geyde of Research4 Life; and Laurel Haak of ORCID. Dylla’s presentation focused on
STM’s recent consultation on article sharing, while Sutton spoke on the Think Check Submit initiative, which is aimed at helping authors to determine which publishers are serious, reliable, and trustworthy.
14 Research Information DECEMBER 2015/JANUARY 2016
She pointed out that around 1,000 journals were launched last year around the world, adding that poor journals not only harmed the cause of researchers but that of the entire industry.
Gedye spoke on behalf of the Research4Life organisation, which aims to provide developing-world orgs with access to pubished research. The organisation enables affordable access to some 8,000 institutions in 115 developing countries. Haak described the work of ORCID, which promotes the use of identifiers within the industry with the aim of improving discovery. The afternoon session of the conference featured Michael Jubb,
who presented findings from a major collaborative study on open access and its take-up by researchers, in journals and in different subject areas, while Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka gave a very entertaining presentation on dismantling the stumbling blocks that impede researchers’ access to e-resources. The final presentation was a CEO panel session moderated by Michael Mabe of the STM Association, featuring Tracey Armstrong of Copyright Clearance Centre; Philip Carpenter of Wiley; Brian Crawford of ACS; the IOP’s Steven Hall; and Ron Mobed of Elsevier.
Report by Tim Gillett
@researchinfo
www.researchinformation.info
Tim Gillett
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36