Program & Presentations

The value of repositories lies in their interconnectedness. This session will explore the implementation of cross-regional repository infrastructures, their alignment and the benefits they bring global research.

• OpenAIRE: Donatella Castelli – CNR-ISTI,  OpenAIRE technical coordinator
• SHARE: Elliot Shore – Executive Director Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
• RED CLARA/LaReferencia: Carmen-Gloria Labbé
• World Bank: Jose de Buerba – Senior Publishing Officer, Head of Marketing, World Bank
• Q&A

Session 2: Research data: the institutional context and beyond

Research data are an integral part of the open access landscape. This session will look at how the research institution is well placed to manage research data, what are the policies, responsibilities and workflows that need to be in place. The benefits of open data will also be stressed, and how the institution can meet the demands of modern science.

• Challenges and ways in managing research data in a large research-led institution – Jeff Haywood, Vice-Principal, Knowledge Management, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Long tail of Science – Making the link from long tail to libraries – Chuck Humphrey, Research Data Management Services Coordinator, University of Alberta, Canada
• Allowing research data to shine: providing tangible credit for data sharing – Varsha Khodiyar, Editorial Biocurator at F1000Research
• Q&A

Text mining has become an important new research method. This session will examine how to extract new insights from data and literature, what are the legal and technical barriers, and how to overcome them.

• Legal challenges. Looking forward to the new licences for Europe – Prodromos Chiavos, Legal adviser to the Greek National Documentation Center, member of the LAPSI project
• Content Mining in Practice: Challenges and opportunities for publishers – Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director for PLOS
• Argo: a platform for interoperable and customisable text analytics – Sophia Ananiadou, School of Computer Science, Director, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester
• Q&A

Perspectives on the impact of Open Access and Open Science; who it affects, how to increase and how to evaluate and measure research impact.

A host of new initiatives are being developed that challenge the traditional scholarly publishing paradigm. This session will showcase some emerging models and initiatives that are gaining traction, and provide insight into a very different future for scholarly communications.

• Open peer review – Pantelis Perakakis/Michael Taylor – Co-founders of Open Scholar
• Open Science – The Future of Scholarly Publishing -Kamila Markram, Neuroscientist, Co-founder and CEO of Frontiers
• Q&A

Panel Discussion: How to align and move forward? What are the priorities?

The panel will be comprised of leaders who will be asked to be provocative, think outside of the box and describe how they see the future for scholarly communication in 5 years.

• Norbert Lossau – Vice-President of Göttingen University
• Giulia Ajmone Marsan – OECD, Country Studies and Ourlook Division Direcrorate for Science, Technology and Industry
• Gregory Grefenstette – INRIA Senior Researcher
• Heather Joseph – SPARC Executive Director
• Jarkko Siren – European Commission
• Q&A