Seasonal Seminars: STM Week 1st-3rd December 2015

Matt McKay is Director of Communication & Events. He is a Chartered Public Relations Practitioner who has worked across STM, transport and engineering for the past 15 years. Matt is a Fellow and past board member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and a regular industry speaker on digital communications, and measurement and evaluation techniques.

The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) will once again be in London for ‘STM Week’.

STM Week consists of three events bringing together the industry’s most established thinkers and bright up-and-coming stars to give attendees an insight into the hottest innovations, technological trends and essential developments which will define STM publishing over the years to come.

• Digital Publishing 2015: Production Technologies, Content Management and More will take place on the 1^st December. An evolution of the popular eProduction Day, it will bring together the leading digital operations champions to discuss how to take advantage of platform technology. With a keynote from Ove Kähler of Brill, and panels discussing content sharing, platform strategies and moving away from paper-based proof mark up this seminar promises to provide a deep insight for all attendees
• Innovations 2015: “Play it again Sam” – Research reproducibility and reputation management will follow on the 2^nd December. This year’s seminar will focus on the key themes of research reproducibility, cyber security and researcher’s reputation management. Attendees will learn how scientists and researchers are utilising the new opportunities presented through open science and data-sharing and how publishers like Science and SpringerNature are facilitating new sharing environments. Presenters will demonstrate how new initiatives are helping scientists successfully manage their reputation and renowned experts and industry commentators will give their views on where the industry is heading.
• Finally, STM Week closes with a special seminar: Publication Ethics and Research Integrity taking pace on the 3^rd December. Publication Ethics is now of importance to all those concerned with journals.  It is a point where the research process meets the everyday world of journal processes and it can become a source of embarrassment at mistaken procedures or pride in getting answers right. It is no longer a specialist area but one which all publishers have to understand what to do when something goes wrong and how to safeguard against this happening. Peer review is central to researcher trust in publications and where much misconduct happens but ethical questions are much wider and the seminar programme acknowledges this. This seminar is concerned with the needs of the publisher community, and how they should run their journals and advise their editors.

Recognising that those attending an STM Week seminar often enjoy wider networking (and perhaps even some Christmas shopping) a discounted combined registration is available to attend all three events taking place. http://www.stm-assoc.org/events/stm-week-2015-combined-registration/?register

We look forward to seeing colleagues, both old and new in London in December!

You can also join Digital Science and their Managing Director, Daniel Hook, for a cocktail on the evening of the 2nd December immediately following the STM Innovations Seminar. They will be hosting an evening of demos at the Congress Centre starting at 6.30pm.