The 2019 LIS-Bibliometrics event will focus on open metrics and measuring openness. It aims to provide a forum for practitioners to hear, share, discuss and debate how open metrics can be introduced, developed and used and how to measure openness and its impact.

The event will include keynote presentations from Catriona McCallum, Co-Originator of the I40C Initiative for Open Citations; Dr Isabella Peters, Professor of Web Science at the ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and CAU Kiel University followed by three parallel sessions. In the afternoon there will be lightning talks and a panel session: Thinking globally about research evaluation: common problems and common solutions?

Agenda

9:00 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 9:50 Welcome, Torsten Reimer (British Library) & Lizzie Gadd (Chair of LIS-Bibliometrics committee)

9:50 – 11:10 Introductory session: Keynotes

Presentation ONE: Catriona McCallum (I4OC), Open metrics – what they are and why they are needed

Presentation TWO: Isabella Peters (Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft), Measuring openness – why measure openness and how do we do it

11:10 – 11:30 Tea break

11:30 – 12:45 Three parallel sessions

a) How are funders and suppliers openly engaging with communities?

Anna Clements (St Andrews University); Gavin Reddick (Researchfish) & Mike Taylor (Digital Science)

b) Introducing research evaluation to early career researchers

Katie Evans (University of Bath) & Ray Kent (Royal Veterinary College)

c) Case studies of measuring open impact in non-academic sectors

Andrew Clark (UCB) & Philip Horgan (Open Data Institute)

12:45 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:00 Feedback from parallel sessions

14:00 – 15:00 Lightning talks

What can(not) a national library do about scientific information and open access: a Croatian example. Ivana Čadovska (National and University Library in Zagreb)

Opening up hidden metrics, David Sommer (Kudos)

Using open citation data to identify new research opportunities, Stephen Pearson (University of Manchester)

Code of practice for research data usage metrics, Lorraine Estelle (COUNTER)

Measures of open research at City, Diane Bell (City University)

The value of open metrics: a commercial perspective, Mike Taylor (Digital Science)

Semantometrics: Moving beyond contribution, Dasha Herrmannova (Open University)

Peer review and citation data in predicting university rankings, David Pride (Open University)

Using open NIH Pubmed data, Ian Rowlands (King's College)

15:00 – 15:30 Tea break

15:30 – 16:30 Panel: Thinking globally about research evaluation: common challenges, common solutions?

Stephen Curry (Imperial College), Ian Rowlands (King's College), Kate Williams (Harvard University/Cambridge University)

Chair: Lizzie Gadd (Loughborough University)

16:30 – 16:45 Summary and close, Karen Rowlett (University of Reading)

Please note that places are limited to one place per commercial supplier. All tickets are subject to cancellation if any organisation oversubscribes.

This event is kindly sponsored by Digital Science.

Organising committee: Nathalie Cornée, Nicola Dowson, Dimity Flanagan, Stephen Grace, Ray Kent and Mike Taylor.

Community blog: https://thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/

Photo credit: "measuring tape" by liz west is licensed under CC BY 2.0