Richard Akerman - My Presentations and Articles

Upcoming Events

• none currently scheduled

Completed (sole author)

• "Science to the People" (about citizen science) for National Science and Technology Week - at the Canada Science and Technology Museum - October 21, 2009 (event for High School students, see NSTW Lectures PDF for more info)
• "Will we command our data?" - David Binkley Lecture at Access 2009 - October 1-3, 2009 - Peter Zimmerman did a great job of blogging a summary of the presentation - also video of the presentation is available
• "CISTI: Promoting Science Access" at IFLA 2008 satellite meeting on Science Policies and Science Portals - August 8, 2008 - Presentation is also available directly from meeting site
• Opening Keynote "Building Skynet for Science: Discovering New Frontiers Using Embedded Knowledge" for NISO Discovery 2008 - Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards - March 27-28, 2008
• Book review of Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure and the Internet in Nature 451, 401 (24 January 2008) - doi:10.1038/451401a - also see additional information in my blog
• "Service-Oriented Architecture for Libraries" at Digital Library Federation (DLF) Fall Forum 2007 - November 5-7, 2007 - Presentation is also available directly from DLF site
• Library Web Services in Library Journal - netConnect - July 15, 2007 - also see additional information in my blog
• Web Tools for Peer Reviewers... and Everyone at the ICSTI 2007 Public Conference "Assessing the quality and impact of research: practices and initiatives in scholarly information" (see detailed agenda) - June 21-22, 2007 - video of the presentation is also available
• Library Service-Oriented Architecture to Enhance Access to Science (also see abstract and short paper) at IATUL 2007 - June 11-14, 2007 - Fullltext and Presentation are also available directly from IATUL site
• "The Internet - A Scholarly Community?" panel presentation at the 2007 Allen Press Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing™ Seminar - April 12, 2007
• Development of Library Web Services for Discovery and Delivery of Scientific Information (SlideShare), audio of the presentation (MP3), bookmarks for this presentation - Access 2006
• Book review of The Long Tail  in Nature 442, 512-513 (3 August 2006) - doi:10.1038/442512a - also see additional information in my blog
• Technical solutions: Evolving peer review for the internet in Nature online - doi:10.1038/nature04997 - June 21, 2006
• Service-Oriented Architecture Methods to Develop Networked Library Services (PowerPoint), video of the presentation (RealVideo), bookmarks for this presentation - Service-Oriented Architecture Symposium 2005
• How to Enhance Access with Browser Extensions (PowerPoint) - Internet Librarian International 2005

Completed (co-author) 

• Brian Kelly, Paul Bevan, Richard Akerman, Jo Alcock, Josie Fraser - Library 2.0: balancing the risks and benefits to maximise the dividends in Program: electronic library and information systems 43, 311-327 (2009) - doi:10.1108/00330330910978608 - also see author version in University of Bath repository
• Judy Best, Richard Akerman - Challenges in the Selection, Design and Implementation of an Online Submission and Peer Review System for STM Journals - ELPUB2007. Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Vienna, Austria 13-15 June 2007 / Edited by: Leslie Chan and Bob Martens. ISBN 978-3-85437-292-9, 2007, pp. 117-128

The above lists events where I did formal presentations, or formal publications.  There is a separate list of all conferences I have attended.