Digital Science’s Nicko Goncharoff and Phil Jones to Speak at ALPSP Conference and Awards

Where: Park Inn Heathrow, London, UK

When: 14-16 September

This year Alice Meadows, Director for Community Engagement and Support at ORCiD, will chair a panel examining the different players and opportunities for collaboration to support the needs of researchers, their organizations, and the wider scholarly community.

Scholarly communication is forever changing and growing; open access to journals is being demanded from a growing number of academics from around the world. Collaboration is key if publishers are to be part of the solution rather than the problem. The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers’ Conference helps bring together all the players in scholarly publishing to hear about new ideas and developments and to discuss specific issues in an open and constructive atmosphere.

Nicko Goncharoff, Chief Business Development Officer at Digital Science will ask:

‘Scholarly article sharing – not if, but when, how and with whom?’

By concentrating entirely on the risk, are we missing an opportunity? Sharing is here to stay, so publishers must actively and urgently work with other key stakeholders such as institutions, funders, SCNs and policy makers to create sustainable sharing workflows while there is still time. In his talk, Nicko will look at efforts some publishers have made to date, results and impacts so far, and how sharing might create new opportunities for publishers and authors.

Phil Jones, Director of Publishing Innovation, is looking to clear the air surrounding open access, and to suggest new venues for learned societies to generate revenue and support their members.

Helen Bray, Director of Communications at the Knowledge Transfer Network will examine:

‘Cross fertilization: Connecting unusual suspects, thinking unusual thoughts.’

Innovation happens when people interact with others who have different ideas, perspectives and who often use different terminology. The journey can be fraught with misunderstandings and miscommunication but the benefits to individuals, organizations and society can be huge. It all sounds great in theory, but we know is hard in practice. So how can publishers take their place in collaborative innovation?

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To give you a taste of things to come, last year Dr Beatrice Alex did a talk on Edinburgh’s literary past revealed via text mining: