The 2nd day of the ALPSP conference started with Keynote from Kuansan Wang, Director of the Internet service Research Centre, Microsoft Research. This Keynote considered the impact for the publishing and consumption of content, drawing on observations derived from a web scale data set, newly released to the public.
Parallel sessions followed covering text & data mining which included 3 very different presentations.
Guy Singh, Senior Manager, Product and Strategic Alliances, Linguamatics, in his presentation, looked at the application of NLP-based text mining to identify trends, analyse sentiment and track how opinions spread using a variety of high profile new stories affecting large parts of both UK and international population. He talked about how the use of text analytics can help to filter out irrelevant information within a noisy data source, Twitter.
Dr Beatrice Alex, Research Fellow in Text Mining, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, introduced Palimpsest, an interdisciplinary collaboration between literary scholars and computer scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the University of St.Andrews. The project extracted tens of thousands of references to the UNESCO World City of Literature in works of hundreds of authors, including Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Margaret Oliphant and some modern-day writers.
Dr Judith Bara Leverhulme Research fellow, Queen Mary University of London presented an alternative approach to text and data mining. Other sessions covered smart ways for small publishers to go global and a selection of Industry updates.
The winners of the 2015 ALPSP Awards were announced at the ALPSP Conference Dinner on September 10. This year, the award was presented to Michael Jubb. Michael has held a distinguished career in research policy, funding and administration, as well as scholarly communications. In particular, he has led Research Information Network (RIN) since its inception in January 2005. In effect Michael 'is' RIN and has served all aspects of the scholarly community with honour and integrity. Perhaps the highlight of Michael's work with RIN was his role as Secretary to the group that produced the original Finch report in 2012 and subsequent report in 2013. Most recently, he has led the team that will report this autumn on key features of the transition to open access in the UK and the rest of the world.
Kudos was named winner of the 2015 ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing. Kudos is a web-based toolkit for researchers and their publishers to increase the visibility and impact of published research. The judges were particularly impressed with the fact it is not a closed community – it can be used for any publication with a CrossRef DOI, works across all publishers and platforms and offers a single view for the author and publisher to see which communications channels are most effective.
The judges awarded Highly Commended to JSTOR Daily and Overleaf.
The final day at the 2015 ALPSP Conference included presentations from John Sack, founding Director at Highwire. He was joined by a panel of speakers: Dr Aileen Fyfe, PI of 'Publishing the Philosophical Transactions' project at University of St Andrews; Dr John Inglis, Executive Director and Publisher, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Press; Dr Simon Kerridge, Director of Research Services, University of Kent and Chair of the Board of Directors, Association of Research Managers and Administrators; and Dr. Kirsty Edgar, Leverhulme Early Career Research fellow, University of Bristol. The session covered short presentations, discussions and a lively debate around three hot topics in peer review. Aileen Fyfe spoke on the historical development of reviewing purposes, processes and practices and asked which of these we still need; John Inglis covered peer review of research in biomedicine: where, when, how and by whom, including the debate on whether review must precede or may follow dissemination; Simon Kerridge provided a research manager's view of recognition for review activities and the way in which academic effort can be recognized and rewarded; Kirsty Edgar gave the audience an early-career researcher's insight on her fellow panelists' presentations.
John White, Head of Product Emerald Group Publishing, chaired the final Session on Digital developments and new revenue streams joined by a panel including : Tanya Field, Director MVP; Mary Ging, Consultant; Chris Graf, Business development Director, Society services, Wiley; Timo Hannay, Ed Tech Entrepreneuer; and Mat Pfleger, Managing Director, Copyright Licensing Agency. This session covered digital development and new revenue streams, providing a varied view from five different scenarios.
All the presentations from the conference will be available on the ALPSP website www.alpspconference.org.
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