2011 European Conference

October 18, 2011
St Hugh's College
Maplethorpe Building 
Oxford, United Kingdom

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European Conference Information
Conference registration, accommodations, locations and other information.
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European Conference Agenda

Monday 17th October
1900

Pre-conference dinner, Quod Brasserie & Bar, Oxford
Guest speaker:
Eva Baranyiová, Professor
Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague‘Change and challenge: 40 years of journal editing’

All available seats for the pre-conference dinner have been filled as of October 9, 2011.
 
Tuesday 18th October - All Conference Session Held in the Maplethorpe Building, St Hugh's College
0900 Welcome and introduction
0910 ISMTE: Developments and Direction
Elizabeth Blalock, ISMTE President
0930 Open access update
The case for open access: Caroline Sutton, Chair, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
How should traditional publishers respond to open access? Steve Hall, Managing Director, Institute of Physics Publishing
1045 Tea/coffee
1115

ISMTE: Resources and Training
Jason Roberts, ISMTE Past President
1125 The changing landscape of peer review
Adrian Mulligan, Associate Director Research & Academic Relations, Elsevier
Trish Groves, Editor-in-Chief, BMJ Open
1230 ‘Ask the Expert’
Open forum: An opportunity to ask your fellow managing and technical editors for ideas and advice
1300 Lunch
1400 Workshop session 1
  • Reporting guidelines
  • Managing and involving your editorial board
  • Attracting authors (Andy Collings, PLoS)
1500 Feedback
1515 Tea/coffee
1545 Workshop session 2
  • Pre-screening and triage
  • Strategies for managing accepted articles
  • Building up reviewer loyalty
1645 Feedback
1700 Close

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