International Association of STM Publishers’ (STM) Annual Frankfurt Conference, scheduled for October 18, 2016, has established itself as the ‘must-attend’ event prior to the Book Fair. Attracting leading figures from across scholarly and professional publishing, STM’s event provides a program focused on strategic thinking, public policy, business models and key drivers shaping the future of the STM industry.
A not-to-be-missed event for publishing managers, executives and industry leaders, the Frankfurt conference is an unrivalled networking opportunity, which attracts international attendees from all sizes of publishing organisations.
Brian Nosek, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Center for Open Science, will be the Keynote Speaker. His presentation is entitled ‘Increasing openness will increase credibility of scholarly research.’
Jo McShea, Vice President & Lead Analyst, STM. Outsell (UK) Ltd, will moderate a session that will focus on the latest updates and developments that are occurring in the scholarly publishing industry.
Open-access ‘mega-journals’, such as PLOS ONE and Scientific Reports, with their broad scope and their novel approach to peer review, have given rise to controversy in the academic and publisher communities. Professor Stephen Pinfield, Professor of Information Services Management Information School, The University of Sheffield, in his presentation ‘Open Access mega journals and the future of scholarly publishing’ will provide an update on the project and a preliminary report of some of its key findings. The work being carried out incorporates quantitative analysis, including a bibliometrics study, and qualitative research, including interviews with senior figures from the publishing industry. The different strands of the project are contributing to an emerging picture on the role of mega-journals now and their potential impact on the wider scholarly communication environment in the future.
The need to freely share and post research articles is one of the greatest sources of tension between researchers and authors on one side, and subscription publishers on the other. Both sides have valid arguments and concerns, and despite differences they agree that the ability to share and post one’s own work, or articles relevant to collaborative research efforts, is essential to advancement of knowledge. Publishers are making moves to adapt both individually and through the first cross-publisher effort, the STM Association’s Reference Group on Scholarly Collaborative Networks, which produced a set of voluntary guidelines around article sharing in 2015. Since then the group has continued to work toward supporting consistent and sustainable system of article sharing. In his presentation, Nicko Goncharoff, Chief Business Development Officer, Digital Science, will look at the group’s progress since the release of the voluntary principles and future steps required to bridge the bridge the gap between the status quo and a system of sharing that truly the needs of researchers and other key stakeholders.
Additionally, David Worlock, Co-Chair, Outsell Leadership Programs , will moderate a session ‘The Futurist panel’ where experts will share their views and insights on where they see industry headed in the areas of technology, standards, researcher needs and new applications.
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