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Workshop Report from our recent Shaking It Up Event

19th February 2015
 | Suze Kundu

In case you missed it – or you just want to revisit it – the workshop report from our recent Shaking It Up event has just been published and is available via the Figshare widget embedded below.

On November 24th, a cross-section of colleagues working in the scholarly publishing and communication space joined up for a fantastic day of demos, discussions and sharing best practices. Held at Microsoft’s NERD Space in Cambridge, MA, the workshop included a cross-section of participants to share success stories and challenges of innovating in the research space:

• What are the most prevalent pain points for researchers today?
• How are innovators in the research space reaching out to their target communities?
• How is the practice of research changing as new tools and services become available to researchers?
• How do these initiatives launch, grow and scale?
• The flora and fauna of the research ecosystem include scholars, libraries, universities, funders, governments and companies: how are the rules of interaction changing?
• What new partnerships are emerging?

The organizing group invited a cross-section of members of the community to the workshop. Over 150 people registered in person or virtually. The themes and demos proved to be very attractive to a spectrum of different members of the research ecosystem. Workshop attendees included:

Universities (Boston University, Brown, Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, Northeastern, Tufts, Temple, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, University of Texas at Austin, University of Pittsburgh, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Yale).

Research Institutes (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Marine Biological Laboratories, CERN).

Startups and companies (Aries Systems, Authorea, Elsevier, Emerald Group Publishing, figshare, GitHub, Mendeley, Microsoft, Overleaf, Plotly, Plum Analytics, Publiscize, Quintescient, ReadCube, Riffyn, Symplectic Ltd, ÜberResearch, Unglue.it, Vertex Pharmaceuticals).
Organizations (Association of Research Libraries, Boston Library Consortium, Center for Open Science, Connected Researchers, CrossRef, Data & Society, DuraSpace, GEM Consortium, Social Scientist Research Network (SSRN), Standard Analytics, PeerLibrary).

Videos from the event are also available, as follows: