The Open Journal Project

These pages last updated
3 March 1999

ABOUT
the project
PARTNERS
R&D centres and publishers
PERSONNEL
PAPERS
produced by the project
PRESENTATIONS
at conferences and seminars
JOURNAL RESOURCES
hosted by or accessible through the project

Presentations at conferences and seminars

June

• ACM Hypertext '98, 20-24 June 1998, Pittsburgh, USA.
  The history of the link service software behind the Open Journal project was summarised in Link Services or Link Agents? Subsequent design modifications, some based on user feedback during the project, were described.

April

• Seventh International World-Wide Web Conference, 14-18 April 1998, Brisbane, Australia.
  A short paper, Application-independent link processing, on the emerging influence of XML on approaches to linking on the Web, in particular to the linking approach applied in the project.
• Making the most of e-journals, a seminar arranged under the auspices of UKOLUG (the UK Online User Group) and the UK Serials Group, 29th April 1998, Loughborough, UK.
  'Lessons from the Open Journal project: from first concepts towards real applications' (slides) reflected on the project's progress and achievements, trying to place this in the context of some of the broader developments in e-journals during the last three years.
• EP'98, the seventh International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography, 1-3 April 1998, St Malo, France.
  Applying links and link services to documents in pdf is more difficult than it is with html, and a new software tool to manage link inclusion was discussed in 'Dynamic link inclusion in online PDF journals'.

March

• UK Serials Group, 21st Annual Conference and Exhibition, 29 March - 1 April 1998, Exeter, UK.
  Aimed at subscription agents, librarians and publishers, this workshop on 'Linking quality information resources on the Web' offered a practical introduction to a set of software tools to enable links to be constructed.
• IRISS'98, Internet Research and Information for Social Scientists, 25-27 March 1998, Bristol, UK.
  A joint presentation between the project and the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), this short paper and demonstration on 'Webs of Research: Putting the User in Control' revealed the power of citation linking with two examples: ISI's Web of Science and the Open Journal of Cognitive Science.

February

• Web Database Publishing: improving user access to very large information resources, a meeting of the Electronic and Multimedia Publishing specialist group of the BCS, 12 February 1998, London.
  The meeting included two presentations from partners in the Open Journal project: Andrew Witbrock of Electronic Press talked on managing large scientific databases, while Les Carr from Southampton University gave a presentation about developing towards an XLL-compliant link database service on the Web.

1997

December

• The Open Journal project publishers' seminar, 3 December 1997, Southampton, UK.
  An event organised by the project for its research and publisher partners, with latest demonstrations of Open Journals and software tools to support the development of Open Journals, leading to an open discussion.

July

• Second ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, 23-26 July 1997, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  'Citation linking: improving access to online journals' reviewed current examples of citation linking and described the way in which the Open Journal project is implementing flexible citation linking mechanisms for Web journals.

May

• VTT seminar on Multimedia Scholarly Publishing, 29 May 1997, Espoo, Helsinki, Finland.
  Describing the project's latest work in citation linking, in 'Active citations: the Open Journal approach to scholarly publishing' Jessie Hey considered an example linking a specialist journal in cognitive science, Psycoloquy, to a database of abstracts provided by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
• ASLIB Bioscience Group Annual Conference, "Keeping Your Word: Maintaining Access to Information in the Electronic Age", 22 May 1997, Harpenden, UK.
  'Archiving electronic information' described the projects being carried out at Southampton University in the area of archiving, including preprint archives in the biosciences, particularly cognitive science and psychology, and explained plans to integrate these resources within an Open Journal approach.

April

• ICCC/IFIP conference on Electronic Publishing ‘97: New Models and Opportunities, April 1997, The University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
  The paper, jointly presented by the Open Journal project team and Electronic Press Ltd, discussed 'Linking everything to everything -- publishing myth or reality?'
• The Eighth ACM International Hypertext Conference, April 1997, Southampton University, UK.
  Demonstrators were shown of the preliminary versions of the Open Journals in biology and cognitive science.
• 20th anniversary conference of the UK Serials Group, April 1997, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
  'Online journals in the UK: eLib and beyond', a partial update on our survey of online journals, focussed on recent developments in online journals publishing in the UK, with particular mention of the HEFCE UK pilot site licence initiative and eLib e-journal projects.
  Note: a paper based on this presentation, Web journals publishing: a UK perspective, has since been published in the November 1997 issue of Serials, the journal of the UKsg.

March

• Multimedia in science: annual workshop of German scientific societies, March 1997, Wuerzburg, Germany.
  Analysing emerging features of Web journals, the theme was 'Can links become the new publishing model for the Web? The Open Journal approach' (slides).

NOTE. Elements of the presentations given at the three meetings listed immediately below - ALPSP, Anglo-Nordic and LibTech 96 - were updated, re-edited and compiled to form the longer talk given in Wuerzburg. If you attended any of these meetings and are interested in revisiting the content of these talks, you are directed to the Wuerzburg presentation, linked above

1996

December

• The Electronic Libraries Programme and Publishing: Keeping publishers informed, December 1996, London.
  Organised by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and dedicated to exploring eLib projects which have implications for publishers, the meeting was used to give a project-specific talk on 'An Open Journal framework'.

October

• 10th Anglo-Nordic Seminar, on networking, October 1996, Lund, Sweden.
  A short presentation on 'Reinventing online journals' was given as a prelude to a panel discussion on policies for electronic journals.

September

• LibTech 96, UK eJournals on the Internet, September 1996, Hatfield, UK.
  A session on eLib electronic journal projects was the context for the paper 'The Open Journal project: realizing a new publishing model'.

May

• Open Journal Conference and Demonstration: an Open Journal in Biology, May 1996, London
  This meeting, organised by the project for invited delegates, presented very early versions of the link service tools being used to build Open Journals and discussed examples from the Open Journal in biology. These issues were placed in the context of journal publishing, with contributions from a number of publishers participating in the project, as well as a debate on the implications of the Open Journal approach for journal publishing.
• ASLIB Bioscience Group Annual Conference, May 1996, Harpenden, UK
  Described the principles of the Open Journal approach and showed, for the first time, examples created by the project with the Distributed Link Service and putting links into pdf documents from the project's resources in biology: 'Exploiting the Web: an Open Journal in biology'