Find here presentations delivered at Elsevier-sponsored events around the world. (The slides are in English unless otherwise noted.)

Publishing Connect Event: Publishing Ethics

"Keeping the scientific publishing process ethical is in everyone’s best interest, from scientists to peer reviewers, from editors to publishers."
Sponsored by Elsevier and University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library
Held 18 October 2011

Welcome Address
M.J. Tooey, MLS, AHIP, FMLA, Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs; Executive Director
Health Sciences & Human Services Library, University of Maryland
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Publishing Ethics in Practice at Elsevier
Mark Seeley, Senior VP and General Counsel, Elsevier
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Use of Committee on Publication Ethics as Editorial Support
Geraldine Pearson, PhD, APRN, COPE Council Member; Assoc Professor, Director,
HomeCare Program University of Connecticut
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Researcher Perspective on Publishing Ethics
Steven Munger, PhD, Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
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The Publishing Cycle: Closing the Ethical Loop
Gert- Jan Geraeds, Executive Publisher, Elsevier
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Preserving the Global Commons
Ellen Silbergeld, PhD, Professor, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research at Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Q&A Panel Discussion
Moderator: Kelechi Okere, Regional Sales Director, Elsevier
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Presentations in USA (2011)

Dr. Marianne Legato

Elsevier MLA Luncheon 
Does Gender Count in the Genomic Era? PPT
May 17, 2011 

Marianne Legato, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Professor Emerita of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 
Founder and Director of the Partnership for Women's Health, Columbia University

Event presenters (details below)

Research Connect Event at The Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library | 
Mapping and Measuring Scientific Output
May 10, 2011 

• James Tonna, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, North America, Elsevier
  Welcome
• Miriam Blake, Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library
  Welcome
• Dr. Eugene Garfield, Founder of the Institute for Scientific Information
  Full Text Downloads and Citations Analysis: Some Reflections
• Dr. Henk Moed, Senior Scientific Advisor, Elsevier
  The Multidimensional Research Assessment Matrix
• Dr. Henry Small, Information Scientist, SciTech Strategies
  Text Mining of Citations in Emerging Scientific Communities
• Dr. Jevin West, ARCS Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Washington
  The EigenFactor Metrics
• Dr. Katy Borner, Professor, School of Library & Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington
  Atlas of Science - Navigating, understanding, and communicating  the structure and dynamics of science and technology
• Dr. Kevin Boyack, President, SciTech Strategies, Inc.
  Science Mapping and Applications: Choices and Trade-offs
• Mr. W. Bradford Paley, Principal, Digital Image Design Incorporated
  Visual and Cognitive Engineering Techniques to Support the Analysis of Scientometric Networks
• Dr. Johan Bollen, Associate Professor, School of Informatics & Computing, Indiana University
  A large-scale survey of scholarly impact metric: popularity vs. prestige
• Panel Discussion and Q&A
  Audience questions and panel discussion

Photo: (L-R) Standing - Brad Paley, Dr. Jevin West, Dr. Henk Moed, Mrs. Miriam Blake; Sitting - Dr. Katy Borner, Dr. Kevin Boyack, Dr. Henry Small, Dr. Eugene Garfield

Event speakers (details below)

Research Connect Event at The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Library | 
Scientific Collaboration: Trends and Future Directions
March 30, 2011 

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• Dr. Julia Melkers, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
  The social capital of global ties in science: The added value of international collaboration Audio | PPT
  
• Dr. Benjamin Y. Clark, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Cleveland State University
  Influences of federal policies on academic-industrial collaboration Audio | PPT
  
• Robin Dixon, Branch Head, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Library, and Dr. Michelle Thaller, Physical Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Utilizing research results for outreach Audio | PPT, Data in Education and Public Outreach PPT
  
• Jon Verville, Information Based Software Engineer, and Emma Antunes, IT Specialist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Social networking and collaboration: Mythbusters edition Audio | PPT
  
• Derek L. Hansen, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland iSchool
  Social networks and career development Audio | PPT
  
• Daniel Calto, Director of Business Development, Elsevier
  Collaboration, competition and the global drivers of research Audio | PPT

Photo: (L-R) Dr. Julia Melkers, Jon Verville, Daniel Calto, Emma Antunes and Dr. Ben Clark

Speakers at the University of Michigan Library Connect event

Library Connect Event at the University of Michigan |  
The Future of E-Textbooks: A Symposium on the Influence of E-Textbooks on Academic Life
March 18, 2011




 

• Bryan Skib, Associate University Librarian for Collections, University of Michigan Library
  Welcome
• Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director for Science & Technology Books, Elsevier
  Opening Remarks
• Maria Bonn, Associate University Librarian for Publishing, University of Michigan Library
  Responding to the Changing Textbook Terrain at the University of Michigan
• Stephen Acker, Ohio State University, Research Director for the eTextOhio Project
  Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons: Creating new business models for digital textbook delivery that serve publisher, librarian, bookstore, faculty and student requirements
• Natsuko Nicholls, Research Area Specialist Associate, MPublishing, University of Michigan Library
  Michigan Textbook Study and Pilot: A Research Perspective

UM Student Panel: Student Discussion  

• Megan Hixon, Library and Information Services MSI
• Lana Ji, LSA undergraduate 
• Weitian Wang, Engineering undergraduate 
• Jennifer Green (moderator), Manager of SAND, Government Information & Maps at the University Library

UM Faculty/Instructor Panel 

• Tim McKay, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics
  Slides
• Brenda Gunderson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics
  Slides
• Chris Gerben, Graduate Student Instructor / Graduate Teaching Consultant, Department of English Language and Literature
  Slides
• Moderated by Scott Dennis, Humanities Librarian and Coordinator, Core Electronic Resources at the University Library
  Faculty/Instructor Discussion 
  

Ken Brooks, Cengage Learning
The New Textbook: Moving Beyond Paper

Rafael Sidi, VP, Product Management for Science Direct, Elsevier
There's an App for That!  Empowering the Community for Better Outcomes


Photo: (L-R) Bryan Skib, Natsuko Nicholls, Stephen Acker, Ken Brooks, Rafael Sidi, Scott Dennis

Elsevier booth presentation

Librarians Connect With Elsevier

A conference is a wonderful opportunity to ask questions, share ideas, provide feedback and build relationships. This video highlights librarians connecting with Elsevier team members in a host of ways from panel discussions to product demos to receptions. We want to listen to your voice in everything we do and hopefully have some fun along the way.

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Presentations in India (2010)

YS Chi

• YS Chi, Elsevier:
  Technology in Scholarly Publishing  
• Daniel Calto, Elsevier:
  Looking at India's University Research Output

Presentations in USA (2010)

Presenters and event organizers

Impact and Productivity Measurements in a Changing Research Environment
October 27, 2010
Washington, DC

Visit Elsevier's TrainingDesk for   links to eight presentations on research and productivity measurements in the scholarly community.

Rafael Sidi

Find below slides delivered at the Elsevier event “Harnessing the Value of Grey Literature” (see the agenda), held during the SLA Conference in June:

• Richard Huffine, US Geological Survey:
  Value of Grey Literature to Scholarly Research in the Digital Age

Photo: Elsevier Vice President, Product Management, ScienceDirect & SciVerse, Rafael Sidi speaks about new trends in search and discovery solutions, during an Elsevier-sponsored breakfast discussion on June 15, held in conjunction with the SLA 2010 Annual Conference in New Orleans. Focused on how to get the most value from integrating grey literature with peer-reviewed resources, the event also featured US Geological Survey National Library Coordinator and ALA Federal and Armed Forces Libraries Round Table President Richard Huffine, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library Director Miriam Blake and National Biodefense Analysis & Countermeasures Center Technology & Information Specialist Cindy Sheffield.

Speakers and Elsevier colleagues at "Informationist" seminar

Find below slides and talks delivered at the Research Connect Seminar addressing the theme "The Informationist" (see the agenda), held in March:

• Annette M. Williams, Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
  See slides: Integrating Best Evidence into Patient Care: A Process Facilitated by a Seamless Integration with Informatics Tools
  Listen to recording of   Annette Williams' talk
• Edward H. Shortliffe, American Medical Informatics Association:
  See slides: Medical Librarianship and the Biomedical Informatics Workforce
  Listen to recording of   Edward Shortliffe's talk
• Ellen Detlefsen, University of Pittsburgh:
  See slides: The Librarianship - Informatics Challenge: Where We Are Headed
  Listen to recording of   Ellen Detlefsen's talk
• John L. Schnase, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center:
  See slides: Science and Technology Challenges of Eco-Informatics
  Listen to recording of   John Schnase's talk
• Medha Bhagwat, NIH Library:
  See slides: Bioinformatics Support Program at the NIH Library; Based on the Needs of the NIH Research Community
  Listen to recording of   Medha Bhagwat's talk
• Steve Kempler, NASA:
  See slides: Multi-Instrument Tools and Services to Access NASA Earth Science Data from GSFC Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center
  Listen to recording of   Steve Kempler's talk

Presentations in Japan (2009)

Chihaya Adachi

See all the   Publishing Connect Author Workshop presentations delivered in Japan.

See below a selection of the Publishing Connect Author Workshop presentations delivered in Japan:

• Chihaya Adachi, Kyushu University:
    How to Get Published in Scientific Journals (in English and Japanese)
  
• Tom da Costa, Edanz Editing:
    Writing Research Papers: What Do Journal Editors Want?
  
• Chad Walker, Edanz Editing:
    Writing Research Papers: Tips from a Science Language Editor (in English and Japanese)
  
• Steve Watson, Elsevier:
    Global Trends in Physics Publishing
   
  

See below both the   Library Connect Workshop presentations delivered in Japan:

• Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Beth Woodard, University of Illinois:
    Information Literacy

Presentations in South Africa (2009)

Dr. Peter Brimblecombe

• Professor Peter Brimblecombe, University of East Anglia:
  The Role of Scopus in Highlighting International Research 
• Laila Vahed, South African National Library and Information Consortium:
  SANLiC: Are We Weighing Up? 
• Professor D. Gansen Pillay, Durban University of Technology:
  The Changing Pulse of the South African Higher Education Research Landscape 
• Helen de Mooij, Elsevier:
  SciVal Spotlight, Enabling Strategic Decision Making 
• Cameron Ross, Elsevier:
  Journal Evaluation and the Next Generation of Scopus 

Presentations in Germany (2009)

• Gerrit Borchard, Universite de Geneve:
  Librarie = Liberte? Professionalisierung der Informationsfindung im akademischen Umfeld (in German)
• Thomas Edelmann, Elsevier:
  Elektronische Bucher auf ScienceDirect (in German)
• Roy Jakobs, Elsevier:
  Elsevier: Vom Verlag zum Losungsanbieter (in German)
• Ove Kahler, Elsevier:
  Losungen fur die Probleme unsere Kunden (in German)
• Barbara Ulm, Medical University Vienna:
  Rethinking the search for research 

Presentations in Spain (2009)

• Ángel Borrego, Universitat de Barcelona:
  Uso de revistas electrónicas en las bibliotecas del CBUC (in Spanish)
• Claudio Colaiacomo, Elsevier:
  Recognizing and valuing the importance of research
• Clara Macedo, University of Porto:
  An academic library without walls, without shelves, without limits
• Isabel Iribarren Maestro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid:
  El papel de la bibliometria en la evaluacion de la investigacion (in Spanish)
• Gregorio García Reche, Universidad de Málaga:
  Modalidades, estrategias y alianzas de ALFIN en una biblioteca universitaria (in Spanish)
•   See photos fro this event in May 2009