Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science

NORSLIS Ph.D. ROADSHOW on INFORMETRICS & BIBLIOMETRICS
Programme for the Copenhagen stop March 24-25, 2004

Location:
Royal School of LIS, Birketinget 6 - DK 2300 Copenhagen S - Denmark. Specific location to be announced.

Wednesday 24 March, 2004 - Seminar open for researchers, research students and other selected students:
10.00 - 10.15 Introduction: NORSLIS and the Road Show Seminar/Professor Olle Persson, Umeå University
10.15 - 11.00 The Basics of Bibliometrics/Professor Wolfgang Glänzel, Leuwen University
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.15 Bibliometrics and science evaluation/Wolfgang Glänzel
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch break
13.15 - 14.30 Bibliometrics and knowledge management/Professor Irene Wormell, Borås University
14.30 - 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 - 16.00 Building and analysing bibliometric data/ Olle Persson

Thursday 25 March, 2004 - Closed session supervision of Ph.D. student's thesis work, associated with informetric issues.
Thesis plan and text to be sent in advance to Irene Wormell (irene.wormell@hb.se), Wolfgang Glänzel (Wolfgang.Glanzel@econ.kuleuven.ac.be), and Olle Persson (olle.persson@soc.umu.se) from the Ph.D. students - when their participation has been ackowledged!
10.00 - 12.00 Discussions with Ph.D. students - Supervisors: Wolfgang Glänzel/Irene Wormell/Olle Persson
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.00 Further discussions (if required)
14.00 - 14.15 Coffee break
14.15 - 16.00 Discussions with Danish informetric research groups

Suggested readings:
Wolfgang Glänzel's book on bibliometrics is available for the Road Show Seminars, sections downloadable from the NORSLIS website!

The roadshow seminar is equivalent to 1 course ECTS.

Participation:
Pre-Registration is mandatory due to space allocation at the school. Deadline for the registering to the open Roadshow on March 24 is by March 15 by e-mail to the organizer, Professor Peter Ingwersen (pi@db.dk).
Ph.D. students should register to Peter Ingwersen already on March 8 at the latest and - after acknowledgement - immediately, and no later than March 9, send their thesis plan and project text, including a 1/2 page description of research issues to be discussed by e-mail to the supervisors.

Ph.D. students under the NORSLIS programme may apply for travel support to the NORSLIS Board, i.e. Olle Persson, no later than March 9. See: How to apply