The patron of the conference is The Committee on Education, Science and Culture of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
Partners: The Research Council of Lithuania, The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Organizer of the conference The Association of Lithuanian Serials
Organizing committee: chair Eleonora Dagienė (VGTU); members: Leonas Balaševičius (KUT), Inga Žalėnienė (MRU), Rita Vaičekauskaitė (Klaipėda University)
Aim and scope of the conference is to discuss the quality of national journals and future perspective with institutions directly related to the Lithuanian research journals: journal editors, publishers, project managers and policy makers including the Ministry of Education and Science, the Research Council of Lithuania, the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, etc. Foreign experts in the field will share their insights into Lithuanian journal quality and their potential to be a confident member of a global scholarly community.
Target audience of this conference is the journal editors, publishers, policy makers at universities, research institutions, etc.
Date: 18 March 2015 (Wednesday)
Venue: The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Gedimino pr. 53, Vilnius, Lithuania
Welcome speeches by
Audronė PITRĖNIENĖ, Chair of the Committee on Education, Science and Culture of the Seimas of Lithuania
Rimantas VAITKUS, Vice-minister of the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania
Conference speeches
Dainius H. Pauža, Rūta Petrauskaitė. The Input of the Lithuanian Journals into the Progress of Research. Abstract, video, PDF.
Ulf Sandström. National Journals in Scholarly Communication: Jumpstarters or Dead-end Street? Abstract, video, PDF.
Wim Meester. Access to Excellent Research: Scopus in Lithuania. Abstract, video, PDF.
Guillaume Rivalle. Thomson Reuters Journal Selection and Editorial Development: an Examination of Lithuanian Research and Journals in the Web of Science™ . Abstract, video, PDF.
Domas Kaunas, Rimvydas Petrauskas. Overview and the Results of the Project Publication of Scientific Periodicals in 2011–2013. Abstract, video, PDF.
Kristina Masevičiūtė. National scientific journals in the context of Lithuanian research assessment exercise. Abstract, video, PDF.
Gintautas Dzemyda, Saulius Maskeliūnas. National Research Data Archive MIDAS: Features and Collaboration Possibilities. Abstract, video, PDF.
Jūratė Kuprienė, Žibutė Petrauskienė. Opportunities for Openness to Lithuanian Academic Journals: a ‘Green’ Route Option in the eLABa Repository. Abstract, video, PDF.
