Doors open for Registration (Coffee, Tea & Snacks)

Welcome

Arnoud de Kemp, Conference Chairman

Opening and Chair:

Prof. Miachel Mabe, CEO, The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), The Hague/Oxford

Keynotes:

Science as Social Machines

Prof. Dr. Barend Mons ,Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) should enable a ‘social machine’ approach to knowledge discovery, where machines and humans interactively reveal patterns in large, complex and interlinked data sets and where humans extract actionable knowledge from these patterns, feed the new knowledge back into the system and share this with other EOSC users (where possible in OA). Narrative articles will play a significantly different role in this system. In fact, narrative articles should become ‘supplementary’ to the published data, and explain in human readable language how things were done and why the conclusions were drawn. Continuous annotation of re-used data sets will also be a crucial feature of the EOSC. The novel mining technologies that are able to detect co-occurrences that are 'not seen before’ will break through closed models in any case and new platforms supporting social machines will be the core of modern science.

The Future of Scholarly Scientific Communication

Dr. Stuart Taylor, Publishing Director, Royal Society, London

An overview of the key themes to emerge from a four day conference, held at the Royal Society in Spring 2015, as part of the program to celebrate the 350th anniversary world's first science journal.

Friction in the Workflow: Where are we generating more Heat than Light?

John Sack, Associate Publisher and Founding Director,HighWire, Stanford

In twenty years of web-based scholarly publishing, we have done a lot of automation, but not so much transformation.  That is, the process of publishing is more efficient, but not very different. What are the barriers to further improvement, and ultimately to transformation?  Which barriers can be surmounted by technology, and which will require disciplines or norms to change?  Beyond the barriers, where are the opportunities?  Will formal scholarly communication need to depart the limits of scholarly publishing?

Access and Destinations: Navigating the Choices

Philippe Terheggen, Managing Director, Elsevier Journals, Amsterdam

The duality of access methods to trusted research content is discussed in terms of subscription content and open access. How much are both growing? Will the one overtake the other? What is or would enhancing a transition, and what is seen as current bottle necks? Access models define how access is given, yet let's also reflect what they give access to.

Open Access Transformation of Scientific Journal Publishing - Perspectives after Berlin 12

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pöschl, Director,Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz

The presentation will outline why and how the majority of scientific journals can and shall be transformed from subscription to open access publishing in the near future.

Buffet Lunch

Keynotes:

Introduction:

Ulrich Korwitz, Director, Leibniz Information Center for Sife Sciences, Köln

The German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures - Status and Perspectives

Sabine Brünger-Weilandt, President and CEO, FIZ Karlsruhe, the Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

In 2013, the German Joint Science Conference (GWK) decided  to  establish a national Council for Scientific Information  Infrastructures. It serves as an Advisory Council to the German  Federal Government (Bund) und to the Federal States (Länder), and its  mission is to work on recommendations related to the digital shift in  Science and Research. It aims at monitoring developments in the  national science system, across disciplines and institutions. The  German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures held its 
inaugural meeting in November 2014. The presentation will give an overview of outcomes from the Council´s first year and reflect on current developments.

Session: Wanted - an Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication

Chair: Alice Meadows, Director of Communications, ORCID, Bethesda, MD

Continuing growth in research outputs along with an increasingly complex scholarly communications ecosystem requires the support of a trusted, sustainable, and interoperable infrastructure. This requirement has brought the publishing community together to work with other stakeholders to add value by conceiving, creating, and implementing standards and persistent identifiers such as CrossRef, ORCID, Fundref and others.  Funders and research institutions - who together with publishers provide financial and other support for these sorts of initiatives - are increasingly aware of the value of these services, which improve discoverability and reduce reporting burdens. However, many researchers - those the scholarly publishing infrastructure is intended to support - are largely or entirely unaware of this infrastructure and the critical role they play in its definition and implementation.  What they see instead is a growing mountain of paperwork.

How can the scholarly community collaborate to demonstrate to ensure that researchers are aware of these innovations and of the benefits they deliver for them as well as for their organizations? This session brings together representatives from across the community to review progress and answer this question.

Ginny Hendricks, Director of Member and Community Outreach, CrossRef, Lynnfield, MA

Dr. Daniel Hook, Managing Director, Digital Science, London

Klaus Zinoecker, Strategy & Data Analysis, FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds, Wien

Alicia Wise, Director of Access and Policy, Elsevier, Oxford

Matthias Razum, Head E-Science, FIZ Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

Coffee & Tea and Networking

Session: Money, Money, Money

Chair: Robert C. Campbell, Guest of Honour, Oxford

It's never about the Money

Kent Anderson, Caldera Publishing Solutions, Westborough, MA, USA

The funding of the scientific enterprise is a fundamental issue for researchers, libraries, publishers, and our civilization generally. Cuts in discovery science budgets combined with successful efforts to increase the number of trained scientists are creating major pressures on the system. This talk explores these trends, their impact on publishers, scientists, and progress, and explores the notion that some, if not all, current in-fighting in the sciences and publishing are actually fights about scarce resources.

Money for Nothing … and the Clicks are free

Ian Russell, CEO, Society for Endocrinology

 

Scientific research drives productivity and economic growth but the global economic downturn has placed increasing pressure on public sources of research funding.  Learned societies have a valuable role to play in influencing government policy to try to ensure that investment in research is maintained and we will discuss how they can best marshal and mobilize the resources at their disposal and what publishing partners, trade associations, and other umbrella organizations can do to assist.

Digital First: the Publisher's Value Proposition in an Age of Open Data and Reproducible Science

Todd Toler, VP, Digital Product Management, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ

The first wave of digital publishing solved the customer problems of storage and convenient access to published works, but it merely put a digital lens over a print-based system.  The second wave will transform digital works into a connected, semantic knowledge graph of scientific discovery, an inter-connected web of machine readable research outputs.  Publishers will embrace digital first workflows as an opportunity to speed up and simplify their processes, re-engineering their value proposition for a world of digital dissemination first, print (on demand) second.  Authors will spend less time in the publisher’s production systems on “page proofing” and more time making sure links are in place, content is tagged properly, licenses are set up properly, and sources are represented as complete.  Funders will transition from talking about Open Access to talking about open science, open data, and open standards.

Introduction:

Dr. Herman P. Spruijt,Past President, International Publishers Association (IPA), Leersum

The APE Lecture

The History of Acdemic Publishing since 1500 up today

Prof. Dr. Klaus G. Saur ,Humboldt University, Berlin

Conference Dinner at the Restaurant 'Refugium' (on Invitation or separate registration - limited seating)