Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science

NORSLIS Ph.D. ROADSHOW on INFORMETRICS & BIBLIOMETRICS
Programme for the Umea stop March 22-23, 2004

Location:
Umea university, Sociologens konferensrum, C304, Beteendevetarhuset

Monday 22 March, 2004 - Seminar open for researchers, research students and other selected students:
09.15 - 10.15 The Basics of Bibliometrics/Professor Wolfgang Glänzel, Leuwen University
10.30 - 11.30 Bibliometrics and evaluation of scientific activity/Dr. Wolfgang Glänzel
13.15 - 14.30 Bibliometrics and knowledge management/Prof. Irene Wormell
15.00 - 16.00 Bibliometrics - building data sets and mapping information/Prof. Olle Persson

Bibliometrics is relevant for persons interested in science policy and evaluation, library and information work, data mining and visualization, organizational communication, science studies, history of science and ideas, sociology of science, innovation studies, regional economics etc.

Tuesday 23 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!
09.00 - 12.00 Discussions with Ph.D. students - Supervisors: Wolfgang Glänzel/Irene Wormell/Olle Persson
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 15.00 Further discussions (if required)

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:
Ph.D. students should register to Olle Persson 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