CONNECTING THE KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY Programme 2015 30 March - 1 April 2015 SECC, Glasgow www.uksg.org Platinum Sponsor EBSCO Gold Sponsors ACS Publications Atypon DataSalon IET Publishing Inderscience Publishers Innovative OrgRef Royal Society of Chemistry Springer The JAMA Network Turpin Distribution Services Silver Sponsors AdvantageCS AIP Publishing Cabell’s Copyright Clearance Center CrossRef Ex Libris Group IOP Publishing JoVE LM Information Delivery Nature Publishing Group PRE (Peer Review Evaluation) Publishers Communication Group SAGE Scholarly iQ Taylor & Francis Group Wolters Kluwer Plenary Session 1 Opening Salvo Lomond Auditorium Chair: Ross MacIntyre, Jisc: Mimas C 10.30 C 11.15 “The Four Straw Men Open data and the future Of The Scholarpocalypse” of science Geoffrey Bilder Geoffrey Boulton CrossRef University of Edinburgh / The Royal Society Watch animals confronted with danger, and their reactions The technological revolution of recent decades has produced are sometimes seemingly inexplicable. A bird stalked by an unprecedented explosion in the human capacity to a cat will peck the ground instead of flying away. A cat acquire, store and manipulate data and information and to encountering an errant dog will abruptly decide to groom instantaneously communicate them globally, irrespective of itself. But our attendance at UKSG this year may represent location. It challenges a principle that has been the bedrock a similar behaviour. Our focus on the apparently important of modern science, concurrent publication of concept and issues of open access, data, metrics and reproducibility is evidence whilst also offering new opportunities for scientific nothing more than an industrial-scale displacement activity. discovery which will require us to redefine many habits and These issues are straw men that we erect and then pummel norms of researchers and their institutions. Although science in an attempt to distract ourselves from a far bigger and is an international activity, it is done in a national cultural seemingly less tractable problem in academia. If, instead, setting, and requires that national strategies fit within a we focus our attention on fixing the bigger, more dangerous common international frame. Moreover, there are also deep problem, then these other issues will likely vanish in a puff issues about data and its analysis that must be addressed of dust and grass. if the future is to be one of open science, with science as a public and not a private enterprise. GEOFFREY BILDER is Director of Strategic Initiatives at CrossRef, where he has led the development and launch of a number of GEOFFREY BOULTON OBE FRS FRSE is Regius Professor of industry initiatives including CrossCheck, CrossMark, ORCID and Geology Emeritus and former Vice Principal at the University FundRef. He co-founded Brown University’s Scholarly Technology of Edinburgh. He was recently elected as President of CODATA, Group in 1993, providing the Brown academic community with chairs the Royal Society’s Science Policy Centre and was the lead advanced technology consulting in support of their research, author of its recent report on Science as an Open Enterprise. He is teaching and scholarly communication. He was subsequently head a member of the UK Government’s Research Transparency Board of IT R&D at Monitor Group, a global management consulting and until recently he was a member of the UK Prime Minister’s firm. From 2002 to 2005 Geoffrey was Chief Technology Officer Council for Science and Technology. His research, for which he has of scholarly publishing firm Ingenta and, just prior to joining received many national and international awards, is in the fields of CrossRef, he was a Publishing Technology Consultant at Scholarly environmental geology and glaciology. Information Strategies. 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CONNECTING THE KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY 2 Monday 30 March Morning 08.00 Registration Citations, made easy Hall 1 Smart, simple and free 08.30 Refreshments and exhibition viewing Hall 2 10.00 Opening of the Conference Lomond Auditorium, Loch Suite Ross MacIntyre Chair, UKSG Welcome from the Lord Provost’s Office Greetings from NASIG Steve Kelley President, NASIG Presentation of the 2015 John Merriman Joint NASIG/UKSG award Ian Jones Taylor & Francis UK award sponsored by Presentation to the sponsored students and early career professionals Jennifer Hopkins SAGE Roné Robbetze Springer Awards sponsored by Plenary Session 1 Tuesday 12:30-14:00 @ UKSG Opening Salvo Ness Room, Seminar Suite Lomond Auditorium Chair: Ross MacIntyre Find out how automated Jisc: Mimas 10.30 citations connect the world’s “The Four Straw Men Of The Scholarpocalypse” knowledge and how the data Geoffrey Bilder CrossRef impacts libraries, publishers and 11.15 the way we learn. Open data and the future of science Geoffrey Boulton University of Edinburgh / The Royal Society Please come and say hello 12.00 anytime during the event... Lunch and exhibition viewing Hall 2 [email protected] Lunch sponsored by 07540565200 @GetRefME 12.45 First-timers’ reception Hall 1 3 Plenary Session 2 Metrics and Assessment Lomond Auditorium Chair: Charlie Rapple, TBI Communications C 14.30 C 15.00 Altmetrics aren’t alt anymore: In metrics we trust? Prospects and pitfalls altmetrics meet the mainstream of the new research metrics Todd Carpenter James Wilsdon NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex / Chair, Independent Review of the Role of Metrics Long before the term altmetrics was coined in 2010, people in Research Assessment had recognised the problems associated with citation measurement and had been exploring new strategies for In April 2014 the Minister of State for Universities and expanding the toolset to assess scholarly impact. Over Science launched a review of the role of metrics in research the past five years these strategies have grown to include assessment. The review is chaired by Professor James not just downloads but other forms of digital interaction, Wilsdon (University of Sussex) and supported by an including social media reference, reference tracking, personal independent steering group, with the Higher Education library saving, and secondary linking activity. This plenary Funding Council for England (HEFCE) providing the talk will explore the adoption of these new approaches to secretariat. In 2008-09 HEFCE ran a pilot exercise to test assessment, their application in other information services, the potential for using bibliometric indicators of research and what can be done to shift altmetrics away from quality in the Research Excellence Framework (REF). At ‘alternative’ and ever more into mainstream. that time it was concluded that citation information was insufficiently robust to be used formulaically or as a primary TODD CARPENTER is Executive Director of the National Information indicator of quality, but that there might be scope for it to Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit industry trade inform and enhance processes of expert review. The 2014-15 association that fosters the development and maintenance of review has built on the previous pilot exercise to explore the standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and current use of metrics for research assessment, consider the effective interchange of information used in publishing, research robustness of metrics across different disciplines, and assess and learning. Throughout his career Todd has served in a variety of their potential contribution to the development of research roles with organisations that connected the publisher and library communities. Prior to joining NISO, Todd was Director of Business excellence and impact. This presentation will highlight initial Development with BioOne. He has also held management positions recommendations from the review; these will be targeted at The Johns Hopkins University Press, the Energy Intelligence to specific groups/communities, including: HEIs; research Group and The Haworth Press. Todd is a regular speaker at funders such as HEFCE, RCUK and others; data providers, publishing and library community events and is a contributor to e.g. HESA; metrics and data providers; publishers; research the Scholarly Kitchen. and data managers; and government departments. The review group will publish its final report in late June 2015. JAMES WILSDON is professor of science and democracy in the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, and director of The Nexus Network, an ESRC-funded initiative to support joined-up research, policy and practice across food, energy, water and the environment. Since September 2013 he P LATINUM Sponsor has been chair of the Campaign for Social Science, which works to make the case for UK social science with policymakers, the media and the wider public. In April 2014 Prof Wilsdon was asked by the Higher