The Second European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and
Medicine will be held in Oslo, 4-6 September 2008. Registration is now open,
with early bird discounted bookings available until 30 June.
The conference aims to broaden researchers' understanding and knowledge of
the rapid changes in the scientific communication and publishing environment
and its direct impact on the research community. The main sessions are
centred on two themes - open access and metrics for assessing research.
There will also be a series of workshops on:
- Open access and evaluating research
- Writing a Science Paper, Ethics & Plagiarism
- Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, Scopus and the Faculty of 1000
- Entrez databases - hands-on training
- Peer review: what peer reviewers need to know
- Nature Precedings and HeRA (Helsebibliotekets Research Archive)
Further details of the programme, speakers and registration can be found at:
http://www.ub.uio.no/umh/ecspbiomed/
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro
Received on Tue Apr 08 2008 - 20:25:20 BST