Join us in London for STM Week 2018 from 4 to 6 December. This year’s agenda boasts vital topics and expert speakers unified by the theme Processes, Products and People in Publishing. Read on for our top picks from the packed schedule, including sessions led by CCC’s Chuck Hemenway and Babis Marmanis.
Day 1: Tools & Standards – Collaboration, standardization and consolidation
January 2020: A Call for Unity?
Moderated by: Chuck Hemenway, Director Business Development, Copyright Clearance Center
Panelists include:
- Will Schweitzer, Director, Product & Custom Publishing, AAAS
- Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Director of Publishing, Microbiology Society
- Ian Potter, Solutions Specialist, Publishing & Associations, Clarivate Analytics
- Rob Johnson, Director, Research Consulting Limited
The dynamic Open Access environment presents many challenges to longstanding practices in scholarly research publishing, particularly from funders, whether public or private. In the EU, government agencies are pushing the so-called Plan S principles, even while in the UK, Wellcome Trust considers further revisions to its funding and publishing guidelines.
What lies ahead for OA and how should publishers respond? What kinds of partnerships for publishers with other industry stakeholders are likely to yield a “win-win-win” scenario for researchers, funders, institutions and the public? This expert panel will explore the state of publisher commitment and investment in OA infrastructure and workflow, as well as consider how adoption of partnerships, tools, and standards could address any impasses, perceived or real.
Day 2: Innovation – Open Science and the protection of excellence
Industry Update, dedicated to Karen Hunter (1945-2018)
Moderated by: Gerry Grenier, Senior Director of Content Management, IEEE
STM Industry Report: Innovations in the Publishing Universe
Michael Mabe, CEO, International Association of STM Publishers
Rob Johnson, Director, Research Consulting
Johnson and Mabe, lead-authors of the new STM Industry Report, its special edition launched at STM’s 50th anniversary celebration in Frankfurt, will provide an overview of the current state of the STM Publishing universe, including the importance and impact of the latest developments in technology and innovation.
Digital Humanities and Open Science – A Librarian’s Perspective
Overview and introduction by Liam O’Dwyer, Special Collections and Digital Humanities Librarian, Dublin City University
A brief overview of Digital Humanities (DH) and its relationship with ‘traditional’ humanities. A snapshot at the DH landscape, method and praxis, the role of libraries, and implications for open science and publishing in the field. What are the current challenges and tensions? What roles and approaches are emerging?
Searching for images in the era of deep learning
Babis Marmanis, CTO, Copyright Clearance Center
AI and machine learning have the potential to radically speed up operations and increase the efficiency of the STM publishing sector. Existing AI-based technologies have already been developed or acquired by publishers to assist with the identification of peer reviewers, identify and combat plagiarism, recognize fabricated data, bolster the decision-making process behind the acceptance and rejection of papers. Likewise, AI has the potential to offer brand new services to researchers and the research community to empower Open Science and open knowledge creation. Come and listen to what is available now and what vendors have on offer and are developing for smarter information applications.
Day 3: Diversity and Inclusion in Publishing
Science benefits from diversity
Elisa De Ranieri, Editor-in-Chief Nature Communications, Springer Nature (effective January 2019)
For publishers, action on diversity and inclusion can’t begin and end with our own internal processes. There is an imperative for us to find ways to address any problem that is standing in the way of great research. Find out about how Springer Nature is working with the academic community to increase representations of diversity in the scholarly work they publish, and how internal diversity program also play their part. What actions can the scholarly publishing industry take, together, to help drive change more quickly?
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