Digital Science and Overleaf to Attend Charleston Conference #CHS16

Roll with the Times, or the Times Roll Over You

Image: Charleston Conference Website

The Charleston Conference is an annual meeting point for librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers and consultants to talk about issues currently facing their respective industries in an informal manner. Since its humble beginnings in the 1980s, the Charleston Conference has grown in popularity from 20 participants to over 1,600 in 2014.

New metrics are on the rise – altmetrics, socio-economic indicators and many other indicators are all starting to become a bigger part of funder and policy-maker decision-making. Are altmetrics destined to become a tool selectively used by faculty members to help promote their department, or can they tell us vital information about wider impact?

Our Head of Metrics Development, Mike Taylor, will be introducing and taking part in a panel called, ‘Understanding The Wider Impact of Scholarly Research with New Metrics‘. Mike’s focus will be on, ‘Building a Social Contract Around the Value of Metrics’.

Mike’s session will begin at 11:35 AM on Thursday, November the 3rd.

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Sales and Academic Outreach Manager for Overleaf, Shelly Miller, will also be attending and speaking at the a session from 3:35 PM titled, ‘Shotgun Session: End Users/ Use Statistics and Technology/ Trends Threads’.

‘The 5 C’s Related to Rolling Out an Effective Scientific Authoring & Publishing Platform: Collaboration, Creativity, Customization, Centralization, & Compliance’ 

Follow Shelly @ShellyM_7

Today’s global collaborative scientific research developments offer libraries the opportunity to create a scientific authoring and publishing platform that reflects the nature and needs of the campus community. Shelly aims to provide information that will inspire collaboration and offer solutions to the the challenges and opportunities encountered by libraries as they work to roll out new technologies and solutions that support, accelerate and improve the quality of research publications while minimizing the management footprint.

Shelly will touch on Overleaf‘s partnership with The Caltech Library to develop a customized LaTeX scientific authoring portal that supports the entire campus community. This presentation will highlight the main components of an effective roll-out and current use of the innovative Overleaf-Caltech scientific authoring portal, including: easy sign-up, teaching tools, enhanced thesis templates with Caltech-approved information, featured journal templates and real-time administrative dashboard for the library to monitor data and analytics.

Use @chsconf and  #CHS16 for updates at Charleston.

Below is a video from last year’s conference to give you a taster of what’s to come!

‘The Value of Libraries‘