Springer Nature Open Research Day - hosted by BioMed Central

Making open access work for you: publishing, peer-review and innovation

Date: October 20, 2015  

Venue: Sheraton Grand Beijing Dongcheng Hotel (北京金隅喜来登酒店)

Springer Nature Open Research Day is a whole day scientific program focusing on scientific publishing, peer-review and innovation. The speakers, who are the most experienced editors from Nature and BioMed Central, will share their in-depth knowledge of scientific writing and publishing, helping researchers to benefit from open access publishing and to accelerate research career.

Springer Nature is a major new force in scientific, scholarly, professional and educational publishing, created in May 2015 through the combination of Springer Science+Business Media, Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.

As part of Springer Nature, BioMed Central is the leading open access publisher of STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) research. Founded in 2000, BioMed Central has successfully pioneered the open access publishing model and brought open access to the mainstream.  We now publish over 290 journals in biology and medical sciences, over 170 of which indexed by SCI. 

Springer Nature Open Research Day is open only to invited scientists, senior researchers and faculty members in Beijing and neighboring regions. The costs for this event will be covered by BioMed Central, and as seats are limited, pre-registration is obligatory. We will send you confirmation if the registration is successful.

Agenda

9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:40 Welcome and introduction of CEO
  Charlotte Liu – President Greater China
9:40-9:50 Opening remarks
  Derk Haank – Chief Executive Officer
9:50-10:20 Recognizing journal quality
  Caroline Black – Editorial Director
10:20-10:50 Open access in China today and the way forward
  Xiaolin Zhang, PhD – National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences
10:50-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:40  Reproducibility: better reporting for better research
  Nick Campbell, PhD – Executive Editor at Nature 
11:40-12:10 How to get published in highly selective journals
  Sabina Alam, PhD – Editor of BMC Medicine
12:10-13:10 Lunch and social
13:15-13:50 Understanding and participating in peer review
  Elizabeth Moylan, PhD – Senior Editor (Research Integrity)
13:50-14:40 Publication ethics: ensure research integrity
  Caroline Black – Editorial Director
  Siu-wai Leung, PhD – University of Macau (Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Medicine)
14:40-15:00 My experience of publishing
  Min Li, PhD – The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-16:30 Collaboration between basic and medical research
  Chair: Sabina Alam, PhD – Editor of BMC Medicine
  Panel: Bin Du, MD – Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
             Tianzi Jiang, PhD – Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
             You-Lin Qiao, MD, PhD – Cancer Institute/Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
16:30 Closing remarks - Caroline Black

Speakers

 

Sabina Alam, PhD

Sabina Alam, PhD

Caroline Black

Nick Campbell, PhD

Nick Campbell, PhD

Bin Du, MD

Derk Haank

Derk Haank

Tianzi Jiang, PhD

Siu-wai Leung, PhD

Siu-wai Leung, PhD

Min Li, PhD

Charlotte Liu

Charlotte Liu

Elizabeth Moylan, PhD

Elizabeth Moylan, PhD

You-Lin Qiao, MD PhD

You-Lin Qiao, MD PhD

Xiaolin Zhang, PhD

 

Previous Event

BioMed Central Open Acces Day Shanghai, 2014


Updated on October 12, 2015