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Program

Introduction

Provisional program

The third conference addressed 3 major themes essential to research scientists and academic clinicians, as well as publishers.

  • Open Access and beyond. What is happening to OA publishing and OA archiving? Are ‘wikis’ emerging as reliable sources of information and venues for publishing results? What about the importance of datasets being open? And how are reference and bibliometric services responding?
  • Impact of science. Can bibliometrics be employed to evaluate research at the level of the researcher, the department, the institute and even at the country or federation level? Are the measures currently being developed sufficiently fair, objective and robust for governing bodies to use them? Is your research being fairly judged? What about (micro-, nano-) credits for small, but significant contributions that are very useful but do not amount to full papers? What information are the funding authorities and tenure committees using to evaluate proposals and achievements?
  • Translational Medicine. Is knowledge transferred properly and efficiently ‘from bench to bed’? And is the existing knowledge communicated reliably from the research lab to the general public? If not (yet), what are the sticky points? What is – or should be – the role of publishers in this?

The conference gathered the most authoritative, interesting, and ‘cutting-edge’ opinions on these issues and offered the opportunity to learn about and participate in the worldwide discussions on these topics.


Provisional program


Thursday 27 May 2010

 
Time: 16.00 - 18.00 hour
Subject: Registration
Location: Leiden University Medical Center: Building 3
   
Time: 17.00 - approx. 18.30 hour
Subject: Welcome reception in the city hall of Leiden, attended by members of the Board of Directors from the Leiden University Medical Center, dean Prof Eduard Klasen, and Leiden University.
Location:  Town hall

Friday 28 May 2010

   
Time: 08.00 hour
Subject: Registration
   
Time: 09.00 hour
Subject: Theme 1: Beyond Open Access
Session chair: Paul Rutten
Sessions: 1.1  Barend Mons: The 'wikification of science': the answer to ‘complexity’ is ‘community’
1.2  Sijbolt Noorda: OAPEN
1.3  John Houghton: Economic impacts of alternative publishing models
1.4  Carrie Calder: The open access landscape: developments, challenges and impact

L U N C H

Time: 14.00 hour
Subject: Theme 2: Scientific Impact
Session chair: Ton van Raan
Sessions:

2.1  Keynotespeaker:  Katy Börner: "Plug-and-Play Macroscopes"
2.2 Fiona Godlee: Evidence-based medicine
2.3 Philip Purnell: What can bibliometrics tell us about Biomedicine and Medicine?
2.4 Henk Moed: New developments in electronic publishing and bibliometrics
2.5 Stevan Harnad: "Open Metrics in the Open Access Era"

D I N N E R

Time: 19.00 hour
Subject: Dinner
Location:  Faculty Club

Saturday 29 May 2010

   
Time: 9.00 - 15.30 hour
Subject: Theme 3: Translational medicine
Session chair: Albert Dahan
Sessions:

3.1  Bernhard H.J. Juurlink: Hippocrates’ Dictum And The Clash Between Public Good and Private Good as well as the Clash Between Individual Risk and Societal Benefit
3.2  Rune Frants: The modern library for translational biomedical research -  Information and Knowledge Centre
3.4  Ben Goldacre: The information architecture in medicine is unhelpful
3.5  Christos Liapis: Current Trends in Translational Medicine
3.6  Ségolène Aymé: Translational tools for rare diseases: the IT solutions developed by Orphanet