From: Matt McKay <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 07:45:09 +0000

STM Association Frankfurt Conference 2014

7th October 2014, Westin Grand, Frankfurt

Registrations are still available but filling up fast for the STM
Associations Annual Frankfurt Conference. Attracting the leading
figures from across scholarly and professional publishing, STM’s event
provides a programme focused on strategic thinking, public policy,
business models and key drivers shaping the future of the STM
industry. A not-to-be-missed event for publishing managers, executives
and industry leaders, the Frankfurt conference is an unrivalled
networking opportunity, which attracts international attendees from
all sizes of publishing organisations.

Registration information available from the STM website

2014 Programme

08:15

Registration, Continental Breakfast & Networking

09:30

Welcome & Opening:  STM Board Chair

09:35

Keynote Speaker:  How Clinicians are Changing the Face of Scholarly Publishing

Cathy Wolfe, President & CEO, Medical Research, Wolters Kluwer

What lessons can we learn from understanding how scholarly content is
accessed and consumed by connected, mobile practitioners? A closer
look at the medical publishing sector reveals insights into how we can
learn from users to best navigate change, stay relevant, and
anticipate the future of the journal.

10:30

Refreshment Break

11:00

Social media as a tool for publishers and academics to share content
and encourage collaboration

Moderator: Ruth Francis, Head of Communications, BioMed Central

Jacob Molyneux, Senior Editor, American Journal of Nursing

Simon Chadwick, Professor of Sport Business Strategy and Marketing,
Coventry University UK

Joachim Müller-Jung, Science Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The Internet has allowed for an incredible explosion in the reach of
knowledge through social channels such as blogs, microblogs, and
social media. This session will examine how researchers and publishers
can promote research, develop engagement and encourage collaboration
through sharing of published content. It will examine how this content
can be used to:

§  Reach new audiences including journalists

§  Drive traffic and conversation about published content

§  Assist researchers with raising the profile of their research

§  Help build relationships between publishers, editors and the
research community

12:15

Lunch

1:15

Is a Rational Discussion of Open Access Possible?

Rick Anderson, Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections,
Marriott Library, University of Utah

Like any other system of dissemination, Open Access (in its various
forms) carries with it both benefits and costs. The OA advocacy
community is very receptive to discussion of its benefits, but tends
to respond negatively—even aggressively—to any attempt to address its
costs and downsides. This tendency makes rational discussion of OA
unnecessarily difficult. This presentation will attempt to demonstrate
the scope of this problem and propose some strategies for mitigating
it.

2:15

Refreshment Break

2:45

Early Career Researchers Session

Moderator: Phill Jones, Ph.D., Head of Publisher Outreach, Digital Science

Farron McIntee, Ph.D., Division of Biology & Biological Sciences,
Washington University, St. Louis

Anna Villar-Piqué, Ph.D., Department of NeuroDegeneration and
Restorative Research, University Medical Center, Goettingen

Jonathan Foster, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Nitschke Research
Group, University of Cambridge

Over the past decade, the number of early stage researchers, and in
particular post-doctoral fellows, has exploded. Fueled by what many
academics consider to be an over-production of PhDs, and ever-scarcer
funding to support full-time faculty positions, the number of postdocs
in the US alone is thought to be as high as 90,000. Surprisingly,
little research on the numbers of postdocs worldwide exist, but it is
believed that over 50% of US postdocs are foreign citizens and that
only 15% ascend to faculty positions within 6 years of being awarded a
PhD.  As in many industries, researchers remain in early career stage
for longer. There has emerged a globally competitive market place,
with greater requirements for advancement to mid-career than ever
before.During this session, a range of topics of importance to early
career researchers will be discussed, including the effect of open
access mandates on postdocs’ ability to compete internationally for
faculty posts. Our international panel will discuss the challenges
they face and how new technologies and services from publishers can
help them meet the new challenges of developing a career in research
in the 21st century.

4:00

CHORUS: An Update

Howard Ratner, Executive Director, CHOR, Inc.

4:15

Close for Non-Members

4:20

Members Only Forum:  Update on issues critical to academic &
professional publishers

5:00 – 6:30

Members only drinks & networking

Matt McKay
Director of Communications and Events
International Association of STM Publishers
Prama House
Oxford OX2 7HT
www.stm-assoc.org