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UK Serials Group  are pleased to announce that booking is now open for our
seminar:

 

Measure for Measure, or, Much Ado about Nothing:

Measuring the quality and value of online journals

 

To be held on Thursday 14 June 2007

at

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London

 

This highly topical seminar brings together a range of eminent speakers to
explore the ways in which the quality and value of online journals and their
published output can be assessed, from the latest developments in
long-standing citation-based assessment methods to newer technologies which
have yet to be developed into reliable standards, including usage-based
measures and linking metrics.  Our experts will also consider the wider
environment in which such measurements take place, in terms of the influence
of quality measures on author and reader behaviour, the differing
perceptions of value between disciplines, and the development of national
quality initiatives such as the UK's Research Assessment Exercise.

 

The seminar will be of keen interest to librarians, publishers and all those
with a stake in understanding the multi-faceted topic of determining the
quality of journals. 

 


PROGRAMME


10.00  Registration and coffee

            

10.30  Welcome and introduction by the Chair 

Hazel Woodward, University Librarian and Director of the University Press,

Cranfield University

 

10.40  Perceptions of value and value beyond perceptions

Carol Tenopir, Professor, School of Information Sciences and Director of
Research, College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, USA

            

11.15  Journals in the arts and humanities: their role and evaluation

Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Warden, Goldsmiths, University of London

 

11.50  The usage factor – how can we enhance the relevance of usage as 
an indicator of value?

Richard Gedye, Sales Director, Oxford Journals

 

12.20  Lunch

            

13.15  The anxiety of hyper-influence: measuring the impact of
user-generated content

Geoffrey Bilder, Director of Strategic Initiatives, CrossRef

 

13.50  Bibliometrics, assessment and UK research

Jonathan Adams, Director, Evidence Ltd

 

14.25  Break

 

14.45  What impact, whose value?  Citation metrics in a workflow perspective

James Pringle, Vice President, Development, Academic & Government Markets,
Thomson Scientific 

 

15.20  What next?  A round-up of the day and some thoughts about achieving
the agenda

            Hugh Look, Senior Consultant, Rightscom Ltd

 

15.45  Chair’s closing remarks

 

16.00  Close of seminar

 

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Fee

UKSG members       £135.00 + £23.63 VAT (total £158.63)

Non-members           £170.00 + £29.75 VAT (total £199.75)

The fee includes refreshments and lunch.

 

Venue

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 

London, NW1 

Location details will be sent with confirmation of booking.

 

Cancellations

By 6 June 2007         Full refund

From 7 June 2007    No refund

 

Bookings

Please book via the UKSG website - http://www.uksg.org/events/measure - or
contact:

            

Karen Sadler

UKSG Administrator

Tel. +44 (0)1865 744279

Fax. +44(0)1865 742164

www.uksg.org