The conference will start on Friday, 3rd of September with the registration at 9.00 am and will last until Saturday, 4th of September, with the closing remarks given at 5.00 pm.

Conference Programme
A detailed programme including abstracts of the sessions and information on the speakers can be found on our website.

As you may have noticed, we’re having three Breakout Sessions with several parallel breakouts. In order to be better able to plan which breakout should be in which room, please let us know which of the parallel breakouts you are most likely to attend. The survey is by no means binding, and you may still attend any session you like.

Unconference Sessions
On the Saturday afternoon starting at 1:15pm, we will hold a series of un-conference sessions. These are sessions suggested by delegates during the conference. So if you feel that there’s something missing from the conference programme that you’d be happy to lead a discussion session on, bring the idea to the conference. If you’d like to use slides to accompany the discussion, please bring them along on a USB stick. However, we can’t guarantee your idea will be picked. We will canvass for ideas on the Friday morning, hold the vote in the afternoon, and then hold the sessions on the Saturday afternoon.

Organizational Details
Science Online London 2010 is being hosted by the British Library at 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB. Please note that Science Online takes place not in the main building, but in the British Library Conference Centre. For more information on how not to get lost, please visit the British Library website.

In the conference center there will be free access to the British Library’s wifi. There will be no password required, so you can easily go online (and make use of everbody’s favorite hashtag #solo10) whenever you like. However, we do not provide laptops, so be prepared to bring your own if necessary.

Food will be provided for, as you will get breakfast and lunch on both days. For a list of bars and pubs nearby please have a look at Timeout‘s website.

The Fringe Programme
Last but not least we have put together an exciting Fringe Programme. On Thursday afternoon, the Royal Society organizes a tour through the exhibition “The Royal Society: 350 Years of Science” (go here for more information and the signup). In the evening, we’re visiting the Diamond Light Source Synchrotron near Oxford (information and signup here). If you would prefer to just go for a drink, we’d like to invite you to join us on our pub crawl. Please check out this Nature forum for further information and drop us a line if you’d like to join in. Unfortunately it’s already fully booked, but there’s also a Fringe-Frivolous Rooftop Debate with free drinks and discussions on the Mendeley roofterrace on Friday evening. You can still get on the waiting list on the Nature Network forum.

We’re looking forward to meeting you all on Friday!

Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s preeminent cosmologists, Lord Martin Rees is Astronomer Royal, President of the Royal Society and Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at Trinity College, Cambridge – in addition to being a prolific author and speaker. He has received countless awards for his varied contributions to his field, and was this year elected to deliver the Reith Lectures for the BBC. Billed by TED as ‘one of our key thinkers on the future of humanity within the cosmos’, Lord Rees has also served on many bodies here in the UK and abroad, dealing with education and international collaboration in science.

Evan Harris was a doctor before entering politics, eventually becoming the Liberal Democrats’ Shadow Minister in the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and Shadow Minister for Science until May this year. He remains a strong voice for science within Parliament.

Aleks Krotoski is an academic and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity. For her PhD in Social Psychology, she examined how information spreads around the social networks of the World Wide Web. She writes regularly for the Guardian and the Observer, and hosts a technology podcast called Tech Weekly. Just this February, she presented The Virtual Revolution for BBC Two – a documentary about the social history of the Web.

This will again be an amazing conference, aimed at changing the face of science. We are still a month away from the conference and have few tickets left, so you need to move fast if you want to join us.

You can follow the conference on Twitter @soloconf (comment with hashtag #solo10).

As a sponsor, you will gain exposure to key scientific bloggers, communicators and thought leaders. Given the nature of the audience, we anticipate plenty of media coverage and ‘buzz’ through social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed and blogs. The conference is a golden opportunity to demonstrate that your company is a supporter of such tools for scientific communication, and a chance to promote your brands, products and services to an audience of passionate communicators.

If you would like to participate as a sponsor of Science Online London 2010 please contact Victor Henning (victor.henning@mendeley.com).

There are only 95 days left until the conference starts in early September, so hurry up and grab your ticket from our registration website!

We are all very excited and looking forward to seeing you in London at the British Library!

Wiki page

We are organizing an action packed conference and we want your input to help shape the sessions. To this end, we have added a Wiki to the Science Online London website. Please use the Wiki to give us your suggestions and we will be looking at them continuously and integrate as many of them as possible.

For more information please visit the Science Online London 2010 website or directly go to the Wiki page.

And don’t forget to register at our registration website!

We are delighted to announce that Nature Publishing Group, Mendeley, and the British Library will host Science Online London 2010 on 3-4 September (Fri/Sat) 2010. The event will take place at the British Library in St Pancras, London.

The event will bring together members of the scientific community who are interested in the use of web technologies for collaboration and communication. Science Online London will this year run over two days, building on the success of two previous one-day events held in 2009 and 2008. The British Library’s spacious facilities, with free wifi, on-site cafes and exhibitions, will also allow for a greater attendance.

Further details of the event will be announced via the official web site. Discussion of sessions, facilities and other matters can be found on the Nature Network forum. Follow the conference on Twitter @soloconf and comment with hashtag #solo10.

Details on how to register will follow shortly. To cover the increased costs of hosting the event, registration will cost £50.

For more information please visit the Science Online 2010 website.

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Potential sponsors should contact Victor Henning (victor.henning@mendeley.com).

General enquiries:
For general enquiries, please contact Sebastian Arcq (sebastian.arcq@mendeley.com).

: Follow @soloconf, hashtag #solo10

: Discuss in the Nature Network Forum

: Discuss in the Solo10 FriendFeed Room

A big Thank You goes to Joanna Scott/Nature for recording, editing and uploading the videos to Vimeo!

Making the Web Work for Science – Full from Jordan Mendelson on Vimeo.

The video is 60 minutes long, a short 15 minute version can be found here.

We hope you look forward to the conference as much as we do. And we hope to see many of you in three weeks time at the Royal Institution (or in Second Life, if you can’t come to the conference in person).

Academic prestige, setting research trends, getting jobs and tenure, grant funding – they are largely based on publishing in high-Impact Factor journals and getting citations. Not only are these measures flawed and widely critized: “You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature”, said Nobel laureate Paul Lauterbur. Citation measures are also subject to a considerable time-lag. If you write a paper today, it takes a year to get it published, and another year passes by until citations of it appear. What if there were alternative measures of scientific impact? What if these measures were available in real-time, letting you track the trends in your discipline as they develop? That’s what we’ll discuss in this session.

ResearcherID, Contributor ID, Scopus Author ID, etc. help to connect your scientific record. How do these tools connect to your online identity, and how can OpenID and other tools be integrated? How can we build an online reputation and when should we worry about our privacy?