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Category Archives: Conferences and Presentations
What does scholarly synergy look like?
A few months ago, Laurel Haak, Executive Director of ORCID, invited me to co-author an article in Science about data sharing and the need to create a web-based, multidisciplinary, collaborative infrastructure for both sharing and analysis. Standards and Infrastructure for Innovation Data Exchange, which was published on Friday, highlights several key issues we need to [...]
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reconnect12: Gaming Undermines the Occupation
I’m on my way to Montreal, Canada for @OccupyImpact, CASRAI’s 1st Annual International Conference. During my session, Gaming Undermines the Occupation, with Jennifer Lin from PLoS, we will discuss the issues related to working with large and growing amounts of content. There will be keynotes by Maryse Lassonde, Dr. Claire Donovan and Cameron Neylon, and [...]
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A Little Glue for Data Repositories
I’m on my way to Scotland for the sold out Open Repositories 2012. We have been looking at data sharing over the past several months and I was invited to join the Institutional Repositories & Data – Roles and Responsibilities Workshop (#OR2012data) on Monday. SSRN is joining a fantastic collective of leaders this year: Angus Whyte (@aw_dcc), Monica [...]
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Who is Who?
I just got to Washington, DC for tomorrow’s Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Workshop (#SSP2012). Euan Adie (Digital Science), Ellen Rotenberg (Thomson Reuters), Laurel Haak (ORCID) and I will be discussing Applying Unique Identifiers to Understand and Establish Influence. SSP’s theme this year is “Social, Mobile, Agile, Global: Are You Ready?” A very broad topic that [...]
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Alternative is the New Grey
Jason Priem asked me to give a keynote at the altmetrics12 workshop at Northwestern on 21 June. Unfortunately, the timing of #altmetrics12 isn’t very convenient. I was supposed to be on a plane on my way to #ALA12 in Anaheim. But, I think metrics are important and have written about what SSRN is doing in [...]
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Happening: SPARC and UKSG
I’m at the SPARC 2012 Open Access Meeting (#sparc2012) in Kansas City this week where John Willbanks (Kauffman Foundation, Creative Commons) is the keynote along with many others - discussing how to expand the dissemination of scholarly research and open access. Later this month, I’ll present at the UKSG Annual Conference (#uksglive) in Glasgow. In it’s 35th [...]
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SSRN Attending JISC & Online Information Meetings in London
There are a lot of people changing the world of scholarly communications and I’m looking forward to the 2011 JISC Geospatial Innovation Meeting (Joint Information Systems Committee) at Ravensborough College and Online Information 2011 at the Olympia Exhibition Center. Both of these meetings will highlight important new ways to use data and other tools to create innovative research. [...]
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Open Access Week: SSRN at MIT
Open Access Week, now entering its fifth year, is just around the corner. It is a global event which promotes the benefits of open access publishing via free, immediate and online access of scholarly research (#OAW2011). I will be celebrating the week by speaking at MIT on 10/26. I will discuss how scholarly communications has changed in recent years and the [...]
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Searle Center “Internet Search and Innovation” Conference Keynote
I’m looking forward to delivering the keynote, Searching and Accessing the Right Content, in the Right Place at the Right Time, tonight at the Searle Center’s Second Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation at Northwestern Law School. The Searle Center runs several conferences each year related to the impact of laws and regulations on [...]
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Who’s Who? ORCID and the Author Disambiguation Issue
I’m speaking at the ORCID (Open Research and Contributor ID) Meeting at Harvard on May 18th. ORCID is a global initiative tackling the author name ambiguity issue, with over 200 participating organizations including academic institutions, publishers, societies, corporate, non-profit and government organizations. Author names create a lot problems for repositories like SSRN. We often find errors [...]
Gordon to Speak at AACSB ICAM 2011
I am looking forward to speaking on Saturday at this year’s Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Conference and Annual Meeting, in New York this weekend (4/29-5/1). It will be a great opportunity to talk with several business schools and discuss the scholarly continuum, current research trends and the future (and beyond) of [...]
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TODAY: Kauffman Economics Bloggers Forum – Stream Live
I’m in Kansas City today looking forward to attending the Kauffman Foundation’s Economic Bloggers Forum. I met some great thinkers and friends at the inaugural conference in ’09 and I am sure this year will only be more of the same. Stream the presentations live today (Friday, April 1 2011) from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 [...]
Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics(2)
PIRUS2 (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) is a cooperative project involving publishers and repositories determined to develop standards and processes that will enable open usage statistics. I will be presenting about SSRN’s view on article level metrics at the PIRUS2 seminar this week in London. I am also looking forward to learning about the [...]
Also posted in President's Notes, What's new Tagged librarians, libraries, Open Access, publishers, repositories, repository managers, research managers, research outputs, usage statistics 1 Comment
International Conference on Business Research 2011
Image via Wikipedia I will be a Key Guest and deliver the inaugural address later this week at the International Conference on Business Research (ICBR) at the SRM University in Tami Nadu, India. The event is being organized by SRM’s School of Management where folks will be sharing discussions on emerging research in business management [...]
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Modern Finance – Past, Present and Future, 2010
I’m speaking at the Chicago Booth School of Business on Thursday, 4 November 2010 for the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Forum 2010. Jason Zweig author, editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal will moderate the panel. The panel will also include Rodney Sullivan, CFA, head of publications for the CFA Institute and Daniel Giamouridis, Assistant [...]
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Open Access
It’s Open Access Week. OAW is an international gathering of the minds focused on creating awareness of free, immediate and online access of scholarly research. I will finish celebrating the week at the University at Buffalo tomorrow (Friday, 10/22) with a presentation – Critical Mass is Critical: A View Into the Changing World of Scholarly [...]
Vote on the Social Sciences’ Hardest Unsolved Problems
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the April 10th Hardest Problems Symposium that took place at Harvard University. The one day symposium brought together twelve panelists from top universities to share, in their view, the toughest social science challenges. The panelists identified the top thirty hardest, most important, unsolved problems in social science [...]
Also posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes Tagged Ann Swidler, Cambridge Massachusetts, Claudia Goldin, Emily F. Oster, emily oster, Gary King, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Hilbert Problems, Indira Foundation, james fowler, James H. Fowler, Nassim N. Taleb, nassim taleb, Niall C. D. Ferguson, Nicholas A. Christakis, nicholas christakis, Nick Bostrom, Peter S. Bearman, Richard J. Zeckhauser, richard zeckhauser, roland fryer, Roland G. Fryer, Social sciences, social sciences division, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Susan Carey, Unsolved Problems Leave a comment
Social Sciences’ “23 Hardest Problems”
Image via Wikipedia I received a call from Nick Nash, Indira Foundation, a few minutes ago telling me about a very interesting symposium tomorrow. Harvard University’s Division of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences along with the Indira Foundation are convening a symposium of multidisciplinary experts to identify the world’s hardest unsolved [...]
Also posted in President's Notes, Scholarship Tagged Ann Swidler, Cambridge Massachusetts, Claudia Goldin, Emily F. Oster, Gary King, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Hilbert Problems, James H. Fowler, Nassim N. Taleb, Niall C. D. Ferguson, Nicholas A. Christakis, Nick Bostrom, Peter S. Bearman, Richard J. Zeckhauser, Roland G. Fryer, Social sciences, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Susan Carey 2 Comments
APE 2010: What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking at Academic Publishing Europe (APE 2010) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences about article level metrics. APE 2010 was a very interesting conference with a wonderfully diverse audience. The sharing was open and the discussions were quite frank, especially considering the number of competitors in the [...]
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