President of European University Association, Rector of University of Vienna; Professor Dr. Georg Winckler presented his report about Universities in the 21st Century. He told that originally universities were a community of teachers and students dedicated to learning. But now he tells that universities in the 21st Century should make junior researchers more independent and that he hopes on open science, on fast and open publication. He underlines that researches should give up their rights to research results to give students rights to get latest researchers and knowledge. Professor Dr. Georg Winckler thinks that it would be very useful for future innovations.
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Keynotes from Professor Georg Winckler
February 10th, 2009New Business Models from Wim van der Stelt
February 2nd, 2009The first presenter on The Road Ahead that was chaired by Dr. Einar Fredriksson (Director, IOS Press, Amsterdam) was Wim van der Stelt. Mr. Van der Stelt – the Executive Vice President Business Development of Springer. He told that it is better to use Google or Google Scholar if you are searching for background research (new area research) but you should use SpringerLink acts if you are looking for Springer’s published researches. SpringerLink is one of the top content sites in the Internet. And then Wim van der Slelt talked about the future of books and threats to publishers that are connected with electronic Books (eBooks).
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Videolectures.net – resource of video lectures online
January 28th, 2009Anthony Watkinson from University College London was a chairman of session “The Impact of Technology”. It was very interesting to hear Sebastjan Mislej (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana) with first presentation in this session. He spoke about very perspective project videolectures.net. It is the portal with huge archive of free scientific content. Here users could find video lectures about Architecture, Arts, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Computers, Economics, History and etc. and know about different specifit scientific events like different lectures, conferences, summer schools or workshops. Mr. Mislej thinks this resource in perspective and would help users to find a lot of freshest scientific information they need.
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Report from Dr. Ralf Schimmer on APE 2009
January 26th, 2009Dr. Salvatore Mele was chairman in session Information Discovery and Access: Repositories, Infrastructures, Libraries, How Everything Comes Together. First words in this session were from Dr. Ralf Schimmer from Max Planck Digital Library. Doctor Schimmer presented report on theme “The European Landscape of Licensing”. He told that there are three drivers of licensing: open access, technology and users. He underlined that users mostly are doing more than just reading (for example, some of they are searching for scientific information for their own researches). And he told that his organization (MPDL) would do its’ best to help users to find everything they need for researches.
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Words of greeting from Michael Mabe and Karl-Peter Winters
January 25th, 2009Fourth International Conference on Academic Publishing in Europe (APE 2009) which was taking place from 20 to 21 January in Berlin was opened by CEO of International Association of STM Publishers – Professor Michael Mabe. In his presentation Professor underlined that APE would examine influence of publishing through institutions not only like repositories and libraries but also with regard of usage statistics. Second word was from Dr. Karl-Peter Winters – Member of the Board of the German Association of Publishers and Booksellers. Dr. Winters thinks that one of the most important changes were: the Google book settlement, introduction of Amazon’s Kindle and the Libreka book finder.
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