Events
Events
2015
 
The 3rd SPARC Japan Seminar 2015
"Challenges and Possibilities of Emerging Research Information Platforms"
Date&Time January 19, 2016 / 13:00-17:00
Place National Institute of Informatics, 12F 1208 & 1210 Meeting room

The event was held on January 19, 2016. 87 people participated.

Please see SPARC Japan NewsLetter, No.28.
Documents, slides and videos are available only on Japanese version page.

Outline
Peer-reviewed scholarly journals and publishers’ platforms have been and will be a king and a kingmaker in the dissemination of research and scholarship. In recent years, new emerging research information platform, such as academic social networking services, research blogs and Twitter, have been used to disseminate and find research works and some services are gaining momentum. However, some studies showed negative stance on these new platforms among research community. Scholars concern with the relationship between new platforms and research achievement and still regard reliability of scholarly information as important. We can see reliance and avoidance for these platforms and it is still an open question how we can evaluate these new platforms. In this seminar, we’d like to share and discuss overviews, current status and possibilities of new emerging research information platforms. From researchers’ perspectives, two case studies ResearchGate and Polymath Project will also be provided. In a panel session, we’d like to discuss the challenges and possibilities of these platforms and how academic libraries can cope with them.
Program
Moderator:Keiko Yokoi (University Library, The University of Tokyo)
Time

Title

Speaker

13:00-13:10

Opening Greeting/Outline

Shinji Mine
(Mie University)

13:10-14:10

The slow revolution in scholarly communication and how libraries can adapt their perspective

[Abstract]

Jeroen Bosman
(Utrecht University Library)

14:10-14:50

A Brief Review of ‘Social Networks for Scientists’

[Abstract]

Keita Bando
(Coordinator for the Online Platform for Scientific Communication)

14:50-15:10

SNS for researchers : ResearchGate

[Abstract]

Fujio Toriumi
(The University of Tokyo)

15:10-15:30

Are blogs useful for research? How?

[Abstract]

Jun Tarui
(Univ. of Electro-Communications, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering)

15:30-15:45

Break

15:45-16:55

Panel Discussion

[[ Moderator ]]
*Kazuhiro Hayashi
(National Institute of Science and Technology Policy)

[[ Panelist ]]
*Jeroen Bosman
(Utrecht University Library)
*Keita Bando
(Coordinator for the Online Platform for Scientific Communication)
*Fujio Toriumi
(The University of Tokyo)
*Jun Tarui
(Univ. of Electro-Communications, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering)
*Shinji Mine
(Mie University)

16:55-17:00

Closing

(National Institute of Informatics)

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Speaker
Jeroen Bosman (Utrecht University Library)

Jeroen Bosman is scholarly communications and geoscience librarian at Utrecht University Library. His main interests are Open Access and Open Science, next to scholarly and web search engines, scientometrics, researcher profiles and reference management. He is an avid advocate for Open Access and for alternatives for simple metrics based assessment. Together with Bianca kramer he leads the 101 innovations project (https://101innovations.wordpress.com/) that includes the global survey on research tools. Jeroen can be found on Twitter as @jeroenbosman<https://twitter.com/jeroenbosman>.
See also, http://www.uu.nl/staff/JMBosman

Keita Bando (Coordinator for the Online Platform for Scientific Communication)

Keita Bando is an active advocate of new breed of digital technology for researchers and libraries in scholarly communication. He is active in conferences about Open Access and digital research support tools in Japan and internationally. He also works for some scholarly communication tools, such as Mendeley, Altmetric, and ORCID, as an official advisor or ambassador.
See also, http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0485-8891

Fujio Toriumi (The University of Tokyo)

http://researchmap.jp/tori/?lang=english

Jun Tarui (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering)

After completing undergraduate study at Univ. of Tokyo, Jun Tarui earned PhD in computer science at Univ. of Rochester. He was a lecturer at University of Warwick, UK, and is currently an associate professor at Univ. of Electro-Communications. His research is in theoretical computer science, and in particular, in computational complexity.

Kazuhiro Hayashi (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy)

Kazuhiro Hayashi has been involved in scholarly publishing, in a wide variety of roles, for more than 15 years. At the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ), he worked successively as Editor, Production Manager, E-journal Manager, and Promotions Manager. Throughout his broad range of roles in publishing he has focused on scholarly communication through E-journals, and he has used his IT skills to reconstruct and improve the way publishing is managed. In 2012 he moved from CSJ to the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), where he is now engaged in a study to provide evidence to develop a Science and Technology policy for administrators and policy makers.

Shinji Mine (Mie University)

Shinji Mine has been a senior lecturer at Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics, Mie University since 2010 after having served as an assistant professor at Nagoya University Library Studies. His research interest lies in library and information science, particularly scholarly communication.

Keiko Yokoi (University Library, The University of Tokyo)

A librarian, working at Information Processing and Management Division, the University of Tokyo Library. Prior to that, she worked at Tokyo Institute of Technology Library from 2003 to March of 2015.

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Abstract
The slow revolution in scholarly communication and how libraries can adapt their perspective
(Jeroen Bosman)

The number and variety of online tools and platforms for all phases of the research cycle has grown tremendously over the last 5-7 years. We contend that this marks a slow revolution. Important questions to be addressed are: what new tools & platforms have become available, what is their uptake and what does that tell us about how scholarly communication may be changing? To get to grips with the processes at play it is useful to classify tools according what new ways of working they facilitate (more open, more efficient, more reproducible and fair). It also helps to classify tools on a spectrum from traditional to experimental. Finally a workflow perspective makes clear that tool development and use cannot be viewed in isolation: smooth transitions and interoperability are key. Jeroen Bosman will update you on how the project he and Bianca Kramer are carrying out at Utrecht University sheds light on these issues. This project includes a global, multilingual survey, and you will be presented with a preview of some first and preliminary survey results that may be especially interesting in the Japanese context. Furthermore, Jeroen Bosman will elaborate on a proactive role of research libraries in this process and finally also on what remains to be done and even on how you can participate!

A Brief Review of ‘Social Networks for Scientists’
(Keita Bando)

Nowadays Social Networking Services (SNS) for scientists has become more popular. Mendeley was acquired by Elsevier in April 2013, ResearchGate raised about $35 Million funds from Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, in June 2013, and “academia.edu” enjoys more than 30 million users as of December 2015 (While ResearchGate attract 8 million users as of October 2015). In this session, he will refer to potential values of new scholarly information platforms, introducing you the overview and primary features of SNS for scientists, in order to let you develop basic understanding of them. In addition, including critical comments, he will examine how librarians should engage with SNS for scientists.

SNS for researchers : ResearchGate
(Fujio Toriumi)

In this talk, I will describe "ResearchGate" SNS for researchers from the viewpoint of SNS user. Also, I will evaluate the "ResearchGate" from the viewpoint of an encouraging system for social media usage.

Are blogs useful for research? How?
(Jun Tarui)

In the summer of 2010, a paper that claimed to have solved an important open problem in theoretical computer science and mathematics somehow got much attention, and intensive analysis and discussions about the paper by experts took place in the form of comments made at one blog for about 5 days. I participated in this discussion. I will talk about this particular incident and about potential usefulness of blogs for research in general.

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