A one-day seminar on scholarly communication in the 21st Century
The times they are a changing!
Friday 4th December 2009 in Aungier Street Room 5/050
Increasingly, researchers and their institutions are providing free, online and immediate open access to the results of their work – including full text journal articles, conference papers, reports, book chapters, visual images …
The seminar will explore issues surrounding this trend, offering answers to some frequently asked questions:
- How is the communication of research results changing?
- How does that affect researchers and libraries?
- What about impact factors?
- Can I get help publishing my work?
The keynote speaker is Professor Jane Grimson of Trinity College Dublin and Chair of IRCSET: the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.
Other speakers will discuss academic publishing, the growing importance of impact factors, federated searching and portals, promotion and risk management.
Last but not least, the practicalities of operating research repositories will be fully explored with presentations from a number of live projects currently running in Ireland.
The seminar includes lunch and is free of charge but places are limited. Please register at http://www.dit.ie/arrow Registration closes on 27th November. Full details are at http://arrow.dit.ie/irday/
This event is organised by DIT Library Services - as part of its ongoing efforts to support research activity in the Institute and in the wider academic community in Ireland.
