ECSP2 Biomed

ECSP2 programme schedule and power point presentations
Conference blog
Photos taken by Amanda Özek
Thursday 4 September 2008
18.30	Assemble outside the main entrance of the Oslo City Hall. The marching and entertaining band Bestum Stasmusikk from Oslo (http://home.no.net/~ebye/stas1en.htm) will play at the City Hall entrance from 18.30 hrs.
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
8.15	Bus transfer from Radisson SAS Hotel Nydalen to Rikshospitalet
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, the Hague
	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 Barbara Kalumenos, Director of Public Affairs, 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 - presentation Jan Velterop, CEO of KnewCo Inc, Rockville, MD, USA - presentation
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? Open to non-participants Chair: Rune Nilsen DMD PhD, Professor International Health, Director of Centre for International Health(CIH) University of Bergen, Norway Including contributions from the session speakers and: Trish Groves MD, Deputy Editor, British Medical Journal (BMJ), London, UK - presentation Gunnar Sivertsen PhD, Norwegian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU-STEP), Oslo, Norway - presentation Gert-Jan Geraeds, Scopus, Amsterdam
16:35-16:45	Introduction to the Workshops Yvonne Hultman Özek, Co-Chair of Programme Committee, University of Lund, Sweden
17.00	Bus transfer from Rikshospitalet to Radisson SAS Hotel Nydalen
19.00-23.00	Conference Dinner at the Radisson SAS Hotel Nydalen, Nydalsveien 33, Oslo A welcome drink will be served in the bar from 18.30. Entertainment: Hellstring www.hellstrings.no

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:
8.30	Bus transfer from Radisson SAS Hotel Nydalen to Rikshospitalet
9:00-11:30	Morning workshops:
	Workshop 1 - Auditorium 1 (Green / Grønt) Open Access & Evaluating Research. Chairs: Rune Nilsen DMD PhD, & Gunnar Sivertsen PhD The workshop is a follow up of the two events on Friday afternoon: Part 2: “Scientometrics, Bibliometrics & the Quantitative Evaluation of Research: Evaluating Articles, People & Institutes” The Round Table: “Quantitative evaluation of research: the best or worst of worlds?” The speakers from these sessions will participate.
	Workshop 2 - Auditorium 2 (Red /Rødt) Writing a Science Paper, Ethics & Plagiarism. Howard Browman PhD IMR, Storebø Ed Pentz, CrossRef, Oxford
	Workshop 3 - Auditorium 3 (Blue / Blått) Chair: Heiko Herwald Web of Science & Journal Citation Reports. Mary Van Allen, Manager, Thomson Reuters, Philadelphia Scopus: a means to evaluate research performance and scientific trends. Gert-Jan Geraeds , Scopus, Amsterdam Faculty of 1000: rapid post-publication filtering and evaluation. Natalia Timiraos, Senior Sales Executive BioMed Central, London
	Workshop 4 - Computer training room, Domus Medica 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 NOW FULL! - Computer training room, Domus Medica Entrez Databases Hands-on training. David Herron, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (limited number of participants)
	Workshop 6 - Seminar room 13A-13B What peer reviewers need to know. 1 & 2 Trish Groves MD & Juliet Walker, BMJ Training, London. (Max 30 participants)
	Workshop 7 - Auditorium 1 (Green / Grønt) Chair: Yvonne Hultman Özek 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 Lund Medical Faculty Monthly - Promoting faculty members publishing. Yvonne Hultman Özek, MSc, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University
	Workshop 8 - Auditorium 2 (Red /Rødt) Societies and Open Access Publishing Caroline Sutton, Co-action Publishing, Norway David Solomon, Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan and editor of Medical Education Online
15:10-15:25	Concluding remarks - Main auditorium Graham V Lees, PhD, Chair of Programme Committee
The programme will be subject to change.

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Graham V Lees (Chair)
Arne Jakobsson (Chair LOC)