CISPC 2020 report


Virtual event delivers real-world interaction


There was high praise for the fourth iteration of CISPC – this year held in an entirely digital format


COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES FOR OPEN RESEARCH


More than 120 delegates from an array of institutions and countries around the world joined the organisers of CISPC for the first virtual version of the event. Despite the pandemic – and a busy industry


calendar in terms of the number of events on offer in late autumn – CISPC attracted not only a pleasing array of delegates but also an intriguing, international set of presentations and lightning talks, a series of virtual workshops, and a rousing panel discussion to round off proceedings.


The speakers were:


• Rachel Bruce, head of open science, UKRI; • Martin Jagerhorn, FAIR Funder Workflow; • Tom Jakobs, National Research Fund Luxembourg; • Michelle Urberg, Maverick Publishing; • Liz Bal, director of open research services, Jisc;


• Phil Gooch, Scholarly; • Steve Carlton, University of Manchester; • Anita Schjøll Brede, Iris.ai; • Alenka Prinçiç and Frederique Belliard, Technical University of Delft; • Ian Bruno, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre; • Danielle Apfelbaum, Farmingdale State College, New York; and • Barbie Keiser, president at Barbie Keiser Inc.


The event as held over two days, with short, snappy 20-minute sessions that ran pretty- much like clockwork thanks to the team at partner organisation Info International. Host Tim Gillett said: ‘Naturally, having


never organised a digital event before, we were somewhat nervous about how the event would pan out. In fact, it worked an absolute treat and Imagine we will consider delivering at least part of any future CISPC events digitally. ’Of course there were a few teething


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problems at the outset, but by the time the first presentation started we were into the swing of things, and delegates quickly worked out their way around the online system, ReAttendance. ‘Our speakers were able to replicate the


feeling of a live, in-person presentation, with the opportunity for questions-and-answer sessions at the end of each morning and afternoon. ‘Of course, it also gave our delegates the


chance to dip in and out of sessions, press the pause button, and watch sessions at their leisure if they were not able to catch them live. All in all we were delighted with how it went.’ There was high praise from delegates as


well. One wrote: ‘Just to say that it was the first


time I’d attended this event - really enjoyed it and would attend again. The programme was great, the sessions were just the right length and (once I’d figured out the platform) online delivery worked.’ Another said: ‘Don’t change anything! I applaud the successful use of the virtual platform. It worked really well, especially considering it was likely the first time most of us have organised or attended a conference in this way.’ One delegate was full of praise for the


sessions on technology and artificial intelligence, describing them as ‘inspiring’; while another described CISPC overall as a ‘beautiful and inspirational event’. High praise indeed, and the organisers were delighted at the number of delegates who attended CISPC 2020 after having signed up to the event in previous years. There were, in particular, many


compliments for workshop sessions on ‘Libraries in a Covid World’ on the Monday afternoon, and a closing panel discussion on Tuesday (report opposite), for which moderators Helen Clare and Tasha Mellins- Cohen deserve the highest praise.


All hail the sponsors!


CISPC is reliant on sponsorship in order to remain viable, and the organisers were delighted to have attracted support from no less than seven industry organisations representing different areas of scholarly communications. The sponsors for CISPC 2020 were:


ISSN, Royal Society of Chemistry; Clarivate Analytics, Digital Science, MyScienceWork, EBSCO and the Company of Biologists. Our media partner was the European Database of Libraries, and CISPC 2020 was organised in partnership with Info International. Many thanks to them all!


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