eScience Workshop 2011 – Transforming Scholarly Communication

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View videos of the presentations from the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop, Transforming Scholarly Communication. Mic (opens in new tab)rosoft Research (opens in new tab) and Harvard University (opens in new tab) sponsored this invitation-only event from October 23 to 25, 2011, at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The workshop—co-sponsored in close collaboration with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (opens in new tab), and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (opens in new tab)—convened experts in scholarly communication from academia, the publishing industry, scholarly and learned societies, and funding

The workshop identified and promoted the adoption of new platforms and approaches to facilitate research in the eSciences. In response to growing interest in new forms of communication, the workshop helped participants transition to these new paradigms effectively and sustainably.

Learn More

• Beyond the PDF Workshop (opens in new tab) (January 2011)
• Elsevier’s Article of the Future Project (opens in new tab)
• PLoS Article-Level Metrics (opens in new tab)
• Dataverse (opens in new tab)
• Dryad Project (opens in new tab)
• PressForward (opens in new tab)
• ORCID (opens in new tab)
• DataCite (opens in new tab)

Workshop Topics

• Research Management: project collaboration software, “smart” laboratory software, provenance systems
• Communication (New Media): production, distribution, archiving (for example, video, 3-D modeling, and databases)
• Communication (Literature-Based): publications based on text and still images (creation, reviewing, dissemination, archiving, reproducibility)
• Communication (Peer Review): standard publication-based systems, alternative rating systems, etc.
• Resource and Information Management: seamless technologies for literature and data (literature and data search engines; cloud-based, group sharing, adjustable permissions, integration with search
• Credit and Citation Models: how can we best enable cooperation and adoption?

Workshop Organizing Committee

• Alyssa Goodman (opens in new tab)—professor of Astronomy and research associate, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
• Alberto Pepe (opens in new tab)—Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
• Mary Lee Kennedy (opens in new tab)—senior associate provost, Harvard Library, Harvard University
• Malgorzata (Gosia) Stergios (opens in new tab)—knowledge and information programs strategist, Harvard University
• Lee Dirks (opens in new tab)—director, Microsoft Research Connections
• Alex Wade—director, Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research
• Joshua M. Greenberg (opens in new tab)—director, Digital Information Technology and the Dissemination of Knowledge Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Chris Mentzel (opens in new tab)—program officer, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Primary support for the workshop was pro (opens in new tab)vided by Microsoft Research Connections, headed by Corporate Vice President Tony Hey (opens in new tab), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (opens in new tab), and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (opens in new tab). (opens in new tab)