[Sigmet-officers] Workshop announcement

Sun May 20 14:12:10 EDT 2018

Dear all,

I created a draft for the workshop announcement (see below). Basically, 
I adopted the text from last year's announcement. Please let me know if 
you want to have any changes.
I also set up the submission site on EasyChair.

Let me know what you think.

Best,
Christine

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    *METRICS 2018: ASIS&T WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRICS AND SCIENTOMETRICS
    RESEARCH
    *

Workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/MET
ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 10, 2018
9:00am–5:00pm at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Canada

        *CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*

The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Metrics (SIG/MET) invites 
contributions to the METRICS 2018 workshop, which will be held 
in Vancouver prior to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in November.

The workshop will provide an opportunity to present and discuss 
metrics-related research, including the latest theories, methods, case 
studies, and tools relevant to the fields of informetrics, 
scientometrics, bibliometrics, altmetrics, as well as information 
retrieval. The workshop continues the successful SIG/MET workshop series 
held annually since 2011 and is envisioned as a combination of short 
presentations, posters, and open discussions among experienced 
researchers, young academics, and practitioners.

We invite abstracts related, but not limited to:

  * New indicators and methods
  * Applications of indicators
  * Theories of the publication process, citations, and social media in
    scholarly communication
  * Metrics in a library setting
  * Open access, open science, and metrics
  * Tool development
  * Limitations, misuses, and adverse effects of metrics
  * Interdisciplinarity
  * Visualizations of scholarly impact measures and analyses

SIG/MET is the Special Interest Group for the measurement of information 
production and use. It encourages the development and networking of all 
those interested in the measurement of information and, thus, 
encompasses not only bibliometrics and scientometrics, but informetrics 
in a larger sense including measurement of the (social) Web and the 
Internet, applications running on these platforms, and metrics related 
to network analysis, visualization, and scholarly communication.

          /SUBMISSIONS/

Submissions should be in the form of a two-page extended abstract using 
APA style. Conceptual, empirical, and works-in-progress will be accepted 
for submission. Where appropriate, up to three figures/tables can be 
provided.

Two types of submissions will be accepted: posters and presentations. 
Please indicate the type of submission in *bold* at the beginning of 
your submission. The requirements for both formats are the same.

Posters will provide scholars with a format for presenting 
works-in-progress and works that are best presented visually. Every 
poster will be introduced in a poster pitch-format.

The presentations will be an opportunity for researchers and 
professionals to present and discuss research that is more fully developed.

The abstracts of accepted papers and posters, as well as the 
presentation slides, will be published on figshare (http://figshare.com 
<http://figshare.com/>). Figshare allocates DOIs to uploaded content and 
each publication will be linked from the SIG/MET website to enhance 
visibility and retrievability of presented research.

Please submit your abstract as a PDF to: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmet2018

Each submission will be reviewed and brief feedback will be given in 
narrative format.

          /AWARDS/

The best paper will be selected by a committee from all accepted 
(non-student) workshop papers regardless of their topic. It will be 
awarded with a cash prize.

Similarly, the best student paper will be awarded with a cash prize.The 
first author of the paper entered into this contest must be a full-time 
student at the time of submission, irrespective of ASIS&T or SIG/MET 
membership.

NOTE: If you qualify and you want to be eligible for the student paper 
award, please add the “STUDENTPAPER” keyword to your EasyChair 
submission form in the KEYWORDS form field.

Please submit as a PDF to: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmet2018

The winners of both awards will be decided by a double-blind peer review 
process from the accepted submissions that are to be presented in 
Vancouver. The awards will be decided before presentations take place, 
but the authors must present at the workshop to qualify.

          /IMPORTANT DATES/

Submissions due: *July 17, 2018*
Notifications: *August 1, 2018*
Workshop: *Saturday, November 10, 2018, 9:00am –5:00pm*

          /REGISTRATION FEES/

The registration fee includes wifi and coffee breaks:

	Early Bird (through Oct. 1) 	Regular (Oct. 2 - Nov. 2) 	On-Site
ASIS&T Member 	$ 230 	$ 255 	$ 280
ASIS&T Non-Member 	$ 260 	$ 285 	$ 310
Student ASIS&T Member 	$ 190 	$ 215 	$ 240
Student ASIS&T Non-Member 	$ 220 	$ 245 	$ 270

*All students who are not yet ASIS&T members will be offered a one-year 
free ASIS&T membership by registering for the workshop!*

          /ORGANIZERS/

Neil Smalheiser (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA)
Philippe Mongeon (Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at 
Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands)
Timothy D. Bowman (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA)

Am 09.05.2018 um 18:18 schrieb Smalheiser, Neil R:
> I think there is some confusion about fees for the workshop. Despite the fact that I carried over discussion of fees in the workshop proposal (because it was there previously and I largely kept what was there last year), we actually have no say on what the workshop fees are. These are set by ASIST. Here, again, is what ASIST told us in the workshop acceptance letter:
> SIG workshops will be priced as follows:
> SIG Full-Day		Early Bird	Advance	On-Site	
> ASIST Member		$      230.00 	 $      255.00 	 $        280.00
> ASIST Non-Member	$      260.00 	 $      285.00 	 $        310.00
>
> This pricing represents a $30 discount off of the non-SIG workshop pricing. Rather than offering a discount to SIG members, we are assuming that all ASIS&T members could be SIG members and they receive an additional $30 discount as a member.
>
> Note that SIGs hosting full-day sessions will receive a credit of $40 back per person.
>
> Should your SIG wish to offer an additional discount to students, you may do that in one of two ways. You may choose to waive your rebate for students, thus giving them the additional $30-40 discount. Alternatively, you may fund those discounts from existing SIG funds or through an external sponsorship. Please let us know that you wish to do that not later than May 14 so that the discount can be reflected in the registration system. We cannot process requests for discounts once registration has opened.
>
> What this means is that if we waive our rebate alone, which will not deplete our existing bank balance,  Student registration will be
> 				Early Bird	Advance	On-Site
> Student ASIST member 		$ 190		$215		$240
> Student ASIST non-member	$220		$245		$270
>
> This is still $40 off the regular member prices, which was the amount of the discount offered in the workshop proposal draft.
>
> What I propose is that we waive our $40 for each student. Plus, each student who is not a member of ASIST should pay the rates listed above, but we will automatically pay their dues for one year for ASIST which allows them to be a SIG MET member too. This will grow our ranks, hopefully. That would cost an additional $40 per student non-member who registers -- maybe ?$400 or so, depending on how many students fall into this category. Also, remember that those who win the best student paper award will get a free membership too.
>
> We need to decide and let ASIST know our plan by May 14!
>
> Neil
>
>
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-- 
Christine Meschede, B.Sc., B.A., M.A.

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dept. of Information Science

Building 24.53.01.85
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Germany

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