CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication

The OAI8 Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication is taking place in the University of Geneva and in CERN, Geneva, on 19-21 June 2013.

The Programme can be found at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=211600.

There are six plenary sessions on:

– Technical developments
– Metrics
– Semantic Indexing
– Research Data
– Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
– Gold Open Access Infrastructures

The Tutorials, which start the Workshop, are devoted to:

– Research Data Services
– OJS, beyond editorial tradition
– The NISO/OAI ResourceSync Synchronization Framework
– Open Access Café 2013
– Metrics
– Metadata for the Research Lifecycle

Five Breakout Groups have been arranged so far for group discussions:

– Altmetrics
– Open Access Policy developments
– How to make your university a monograph publisher
– Open Annotations
– Gold Open Access infrastructures

There will also be 20+ posters in the timetabled poster session.