Where possible, we have obtained presentation slides from the plenary session speakers at the 33rd UKSG Annual Conference. These are posted below, along with links to reviews of the sessions on UKSG's LiveSerials blog. Slides and reports of the conference's breakout sessions can be found here.
Monday 12th April 2010
Plenary
Session 1: The technology of information consumption
Chair: Tony Kidd, University of Glasgow
Rearchitecting science: a vision for STM in the 21st century
Adam Bly,
Seed Media Group
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Technology and change
Richard Wallis,
Talis
- view slides (link to Slideshare)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Computation, communication and the new era of knowledge
Conrad Wolfram,
Wolfram Research
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Plenary
Session 2: Economics of scholarly information
Chair: Hazel Woodward, Cranfield University
Librarians and the terrible fix: economics of the Big Deal
Ted Bergstrom,
University of California Santa Barbara
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Reset – a publisher’s response to the changing economy
Marybeth Manning,
SPIE
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
University investments in the library: measuring the return
Carol Tenopir,
University of Tennessee
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Plenary
Session 3: Rights and Licensing
Chair: Ed Pentz, CrossRef
Who owns our work?
Dorothea Salo,
University of Wisconsin
- view slides (link to Slideshare)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
New models for monographs – open books
Eelco Ferwerda,
Amsterdam University Press/OAPEN
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Paved with gold: an institutional case study on supporting open
access publishing
Jill Russell,
University of Birmingham
- view slides (PDF)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Plenary
Session 4: Researcher Behaviour
Chair: Charlie Rapple, TBI Communications
Network ecology and the knowledge economy:
why researchers need to get online and social
Tony Hirst,
The Open University
- view slides (link to Slideshare)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Life scientists go online – collaboration, communication and credit
Lucy Power,
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Plenary
Session 5: Research quality assessment – controversies and challenges
Chair: Richard Gedye, Oxford University Press
Citation impact and research evaluation: current trends
James Pringle,
Thomson Reuters
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
PIRUS 2: developing a standard for individual article usage
statistics
Peter Shepherd,
COUNTER
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Research assessment in the humanities and the ERIH project (European
Reference Index for the Humanities)
Alain Peyraube,
CNRS
- view slides (PowerPoint show)
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
The raw and the cooked: bibliometrics and the flight from judgment
Hugh Look,
Rightscom Ltd
- Hugh Look did not use slides
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
- read questions and answers from this session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
Plenary
Session 6: The Light Programme
Chair: Tony Kidd, University of Glasgow
Stop making sense: human approaches to exploring information
Brendan Dawes,
magneticNorth
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog
- alternative review of session
Improbable research and the Ig Nobel Prizes
Marc Abrahams,
Annals of Improbable Research
- read review of session on UKSG's LiveSerials blog