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Peer review training
Dr. Sara Schroter and Trish Groves, BMJ Training UK

Want to learn more about peer review? Peer review is fundamental to science, but has been largely an amateur process, with new reviewers learning their trade like apprentices. It is possible to learn about critical appraisal of research papers and other academic articles in many places, but do you really understand what editors want from you? We are offering a unique opportunity to attend a workshop run by the BMJ aimed at training peer reviewers.

Aims of the training:
  • Inform delegates about the current state of peer review research
  • Understand what makes a good review
  • Understand what BMJ editors want from a review
  • Provide guidance on how to produce good reviews

Benefits of attendance:
  • Formal training in peer review
  • Exchange ideas with other peer reviewers
  • Network with like-minded colleagues
  • Put your questions to BMJ editors
  • Reassurance that you are getting it right!

"The New World of Webmetric Performance Indicators: Mandating, Monitoring, Measuring and Maximising Research Impact in the Open Access Age"
Dr. Stevan Harnard, University of Southampton, UK

The workshop will be on the nature of research communication, evaluation, and compensation. Researchers choose have chosen to become researchers because they wish to contribute to human knowledge. That is why they publish. In the online age, the rate and scope of research usage and progress can be greatly increased by making it accessible free for all users worldwide online. The workshop will present how open-access self-archiving policies have succeeded in generating open access at the institutions that have adopted them, how open access increases citation impact and generates rich new measures of impact, including download impact, co-citation impact, co-authorship impact, collaborative impact, institutional impact, Hubs/Authorities, CiteRank (a google-like based on citations instead of links), "semantic" impact, and time-series analysis and prediction of the direction of scientific and scholarly influence and progress. Researchers, research-institution administrators and research funders will all learn a great deal from the exciting new webmetrics that will be defining and describing the face of scientific/scholarly communication in the Post-Gutenberg Millennium.

Entrez life sciences databases - freely available access to molecular information from Genome to Structure.
Dr. David Herron, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

The workshop will focus on information retrieval from the molecular biology databases within NCBI's Entrez system. Theory and practical hands-on exercises will be combined to demonstrate easy access to the diversity of molecular and genetic information within the system.

Aim:
The aim of the workshop is to explore the integrated features of the Entrez information retrieval system, with emphasis on access to molecular and genetic information.

Benefits:
Improve your resource awareness at the Entrez site
Better understand how Entrez works
Improve your ability to navigate between molecular and genetic information resources in Entrez
Improve your ability to search the Entrez databases


Publishing of research results – what are the copyright issues?
Annette Persson, Legal counsel, Department of Legal Affairs, Lund University.

This workshop will discuss the following issues,
  • Exposition of the Swedish Copyright Act in general
  • Legal conditions related to publishing agreements in particular
  • Conditions for publishing agreements according to custom
  • Review of the Lund University Model Contract on Publishing
  • Questions and Answers
Aims and goals
  • To give researchers a better understanding of copyright issues as a whole and of conditions for publishing especially.
  • To give researchers means to look out for their interest in contact with publishing houses and in cooperation with co-authors.
Research Output as the Basis for Resource Input
Hampus Rabow, Lund University

In recent years scientific communities have come under increasing pressure, both from within and from without, to score high on supposedly objective measures of research output. Such measures play an increasingly important role in resource allocation. The most obvious use is in allocating grants from funding bodies, but the purported measures may also have direct effects on the supply of talented researchers and students.

In this workshop we will examine the most commonly used measures of scientific productivity & excellence in order to make clear their respective strengths and weaknesses.

Practical use of the Impact Factor and Citation Analysis using ISI Web of Knowledge, plus the introduction of a new archive from BIOSIS.
Simon M Pratt, Strategic Business Manager, Thomson Scientific.

This presentation will cover the following:
Practical and effective use of the Journal Citation Reports and the Impact Factor for evaluating journals in the medical sciences.
Advanced searching techniques of the Web of Science for citation analysis and research evaluation. Plus an introduction to a new historical archive from BIOSIS. Learn advanced techniques and tips of using citation data in the correct context.
The presentation will be 1 hour and 30 minutes and, in addition, 30 minutes for questions and answers.