Fifth Belgrade International Open Access Conference 2012

National Library of Serbia,  May 18, 2012 – May 19, 2012


Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science is pleased to announce that, in partnership with the National Library of Serbia, the Fifth Belgrade International Open Access Conference will be held on Friday&Saturday, May 18-19, 2012 in Belgrade, Serbia.

This year conference will focus on local and regional journals striving for international excellence and recognition. It will be assisted with a powerful partnering tool to ensure networking of the visitors, before, during, and after the conference duration.

We welcome contributions and participation from journal editors and publishers, science managers and administrators, research evaluators, librarians, information systems developers, and all others interested in issues listed in programme. Especially welcome are papers addressing evaluation and quality issues of journal publishing in developing, transition, and emerging market countries.

To decide, please consult Conference Overview. For the details, see appropriate items from the Conference Information menu left.

Major invited speakers

Professor
Stevan Harnad >>

James Testa, VP at
Thomson Reuters >>

Professor
Ana Marušić >>

Satellite workshops speakers >>

Ed Pentz, CrossRef
Executive director

Ian Potter,
Thomson Reuters

Biljana Kosanović,
DOI Serbia

Nikola Stanić,
CEON/CEES

Announcements

 

Final Schedule published

 

Workshop Day, Thursday, May 17th

03:00-03:30 PMRegistration
03:30-04:45 PMWorkshop on CrossRef services
CrossRef: Trust and the future of scholarly publishingEd Pentz
CrossRef Executive Director
DOI Serbia: Seven years of experience with CrossRef in a transition countryBiljana Kosanović
DOI Serbia
CrossChecking papers from the Serbian Citation Index: Technology, organization and financesNikola Stanić
CEON/CEES
04:45-05:15 PMCoffee break
05:15-06:30 PMScholarOne Manuscripts: A peer review workflow management system by Thomson Reuters

How do you make your scholarly journal or book more international? ScholarOne Manuscripts is a key ingredient in the recipe

Ian Potter
Thomson Reuters
06:30-09:00 PM
Welcome drink

 

Day 1, Friday, May 18th

09:00-10:00 AMRegistration
10:00-10:30 AMOpening Keynote Address

Pero Šipka

CEON/CEES, Belgrade, Serbia; PC Chair
10:30-11:45 AMKeynote Lecture One

James Testa

Vice President, Editorial Development & Publisher Relations at Thomson Reuters
11:45-12:15 AMCoffee break
12:15-01:45 PM
Full Paper Presentations Morning
Libraries advocating for open access: Best practices and lessons learntIryna Kuchma
EIFL: Electronic Information for Libraries, The Netherlands
Enhanced journals: A case study with general remarksAndrás Holl
Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Konkoly Observatory, Hungary
Progressive opportunities for research journal publishingEleonora Dagiene
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
The BRIF (Bioresource Research Impact Factor) as a tool for tracing and promoting the use of bioresourcesAnne Cambon Thomsen1, Laurence Mabile1, Paola De Castro2, Federica Napolitani2, Anna Maria Rossi2, Elena Bravo2
1 Université de Toulouse III: Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
2 Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
01:45-03:00 PMLunch
03:00-04:30 PM

Keynote Lecture Two
Open Access: Green, Gold, Gratis, Libre, North, South -- How To Get There
see abstract

Stevan Harnad

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada and Southampton University, UK
04:30-05:40 PMFull Paper Presentations Afternoon
Journal classifications based on citation data: The comparison and suitability of three distance measuresDejan Pajić
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Serbia
"Face validity" differences between locally published and the highest level international journals based on the in-text citations approachSiniša Subotić
NGO "Persona", Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Open Access journals in India: A study report with special reference to computer science journalsBhaskar Mukherjee
Banaras Hindu University, Department of Library and Information Science, India
05:40-06:10 PMCoffee break
06:10-06:40 PMMad Minutes Plenary
06:40-07:10 PMPoster Presentations
07:10-08:00 PMSEERIIuS Start-up Meeting

 

 

Session of AgINFRA: A data infrastructure for agriculture
(only for participansts invited by AgINFRA)

04:30-04:40 PMOpeningViktor Nedović1, Antun Balaž2
1 Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade, Serbia
2 Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia
04:40-05:00 PMHigh Performance Computing eInfrastructure for AgricultureAntun Balaž
Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia
05:00-05:20 PMStakeholder Expectations from Agricultural Research InfrastructuresCharalampos Thanopoulos
AgroKnow, Greece
05:20-05:40 PMThe AGRIS Network of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the institutional repositories sub-network Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository (VOA3R)Effie Tsiflidou
Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET), Greece
05:40-06:10 PMCoffee break
06:10-07:00 PMDiscussionAll participants

 

Day 2, Saturday, May 19th

10:00-11:15 AMKeynote Lecture Three
Can Small Journals Provide Leadership?

Ana Marušić

University of Split, School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
11:15-12:15 AMFull Paper Presentations Morning
Strategy of international journal publishing in constraints condition: A case study for quality research areaSlavko Arsovski1, Zdravko Krivokapić2, Zora Arsovski3, Miladin Stefanović1
1 University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Engineering, Kragujevac, Serbia
2 University of Montenegro, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Podgorica, Montenegro
3 University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Economics, Kragujevac, Serbia
Bibliometric quality of Serbian journals 2002-2011: More than just a dress for successPero Šipka
CEON/CEES, Belgrade, Serbia
12:15-12:45 AMCoffee break
12:45-02:15 PMFull Paper Presentations Morning cont'd
Mapping science based on keywords of articles antecedences, presences, and consequences: An application of CEON/CEES model of multi-perspective description of articlesTanja Jevremov1, Dejan Pajić1, Miša Sotirović2, Pero Šipka2
1 University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Serbia
2 CEON/CEES, Belgrade, Serbia
Supporting Open Access nationwideJadranka Stojanovski
University of Zadar, Zadar, and Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Does Open Access business model have a significant impact on citation of publications?: Case study in the field of civil engineeringTeja Koler-Povh, Primož Južnič, Goran Turk
University of Ljubljana, Faculty for Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia
02:15-03:15 PMLunch
03:15-04:45 PMFull Paper Presentations Afternoon
Computer Science and Information Systems: Publishing an international Open Access journal in a developing countryMirjana Ivanović, Miloš Radovanović, Vladimir Kurbalija, Jovana Vidaković
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Science, Novi Sad, Serbia
Applicability of the nano-publication concept for fostering Open Access in developing and transition countriesAdam Sofronijević, Aleksandra Pavlović
University of Belgrade, University Library, Serbia
Output in Web of Science and representation in Journal Citation Report of South East European nations: Does mother Thomson cherish all her children equally?Biljana Kosanović1, Pero Šipka2
1 National Library of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
2 CEON/CEES, Belgrade, Serbia
04:45-05:15 PMCoffee break
05:15-07:15 PMInternational Database Publishers Open Forum

Chair:
Agathe Gebert, GESIS, Köln, Germany

Speakers:
David Tempest, Elsevier
James Testa, Thomson Reuters
Jadranka Stojanovski, SRCE, Zagreb, Croatia
Pero Šipka, CEON/CEES, Belgrade, Serbia

07:15-07:20 PMConference Closing Address
08:20-11:00 PMConference Farewell Dinner
 
Posted: 2012-05-04
 
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