8:51:38 AM: The opening session of the Society for Scholoarly Publishing Annual Conference is about to start. #ssp09
8:52:32 AM: Intro by October Ivins, outgoing president is on stage. Says there are 580 attendees (53 international) at this meeting. #ssp09
8:53:39 AM: 8 past presidents and three founding members in attendance. #ssp09
8:55:13 AM: Special addition to the program: Library of Congress Copyright Office is hosting a lunch roundtable. Find Jewel Player for info. #ssp09
8:56:21 AM: Note: Floor locations in the program are incorrect. 1st floor meand 4th, 2nd means 3rd. #ssp09
8:58:06 AM: All of my Twitter posts are being posted here for this session: #ssp09
9:00:24 AM: Jay Schafer (co-chair of conference) is on stage. Thanking program committee members and others who helped. #ssp09
9:01:16 AM: Electronic program evaluation form will be sent via email after the conference. #ssp09
9:03:12 AM: Lois Smith is now introducing Adam Bly, CEO of Seed Media Group — the keynote speaker. #ssp09
9:05:04 AM: Bly was the youngest ever researcher at the National Research Council of Canada, received Golden Jubilee Medal from QEII. #ssp09
9:05:44 AM: Adam Bly is on stage talking about dinner last night with scholarly publishing greats. #ssp09
9:06:18 AM: Start with 30,000-50,000-foot view of the industry. #ssp09
9:07:05 AM: Current world themes. Financial Crisis, Geopolitical problems, environment. #ssp09
9:07:52 AM: The world is interconnected. Can’t understand epidemics or markets without understanding climate change. #ssp09
9:08:55 AM: Everything is a cycle, and interconnected. Showing image of Tuvalu as example. Sought “climate change refugee” status from Australia. #ssp09
9:09:19 AM: Obama quote about hte importance of investing in science. #ssp09
9:10:08 AM: Bly: “Science is now widely viewed as the key to … transformation in the 21st century.” #ssp09
9:10:50 AM: Now is the time to be optimistic about what we know, and what we CAN know. #ssp09
9:11:05 AM: RT @TAC_NISO: Bly: Support for & investment in science is critical for a economic growth and prosperity #ssp09
9:11:35 AM: Showing Hubble deep field. Our place in the cosmos. #ssp09
9:12:27 AM: Fusion experiment begins in California tomorrow. NASA’s Kepler is looking for planets like Earth. #ssp09
9:13:10 AM: RT @nickwwpt: Most optimistic meeting I have been to this year..so far anyway #ssp09
9:13:41 AM: Bly’s youth was full of chemistry sets, “blowing things up,” and science fairs. #ssp09
9:14:28 AM: Went into biomedical work. Started seeing science as “something that moves the world.” #ssp09
9:15:29 AM: Launched Seed because he wanted to advance the idea that “Science is Culture.” #ssp09
9:16:15 AM: “Today we stand on the cusp of a great 21st century scientific renaissance.”
9:16:58 AM: “Today science can be more to us than just a subject.” Can be the primary lens through which we view the world. #ssp09
9:17:57 AM: Human rights, city planning, democracy, are all influenced by science. #ssp09
9:18:15 AM: Science is more critical than ever in terms of it’s power to change the world.
9:19:39 AM: Bly hopes that what he says transcends science and talks about knowledge. #ssp09
9:20:44 AM: “Flip-flopping is almost a virtue” if you are an architect of knowledge.
9:21:03 AM: @edrodriguez I understand. Live tweeting a conference for the next two days. It will be safe after that!
9:21:41 AM: Massive change in the industry. Shifts in industry and world. #ssp
9:23:12 AM: To my followers: Live-tweeting a conference for next two days. If you”unfollow the torrent” as @edrodriguez says, it will be over on Sat.
9:23:36 AM: Scientist are in an during quest for the truth.
9:23:52 AM: Scientist are in an during quest for the truth. Observation: Science is not a closed system.
9:24:44 AM: CP Snow talked about 2 cultures: science and the humanities 50 years ago. Now, science is porous.
9:25:57 AM: 65% of scientists cite literature as having an influence on their science. Especially neuroscience. #ssp
9:26:27 AM: “Science is fundamentally a human endeavor.” #ssp
9:27:16 AM: Global collaboration is fundamental. 62% of scientists are actively involved in international collaboration. #ssp
9:27:43 AM: 77% scientists say that peer review is still a fundamental part of science.
9:28:18 AM: 70% say that science can advance the cause of peace in the world.
9:29:09 AM: 61% of scientists feel obliged to speak with journalists. Bly says that youger people will increase that number. #ssp
9:30:28 AM: 83% of scientist feel obliged — as scientists — to be environmentally conscious. Have not mobilized this group. #ssp
9:31:07 AM: 5 million working scientists in US today. 22 million degree holders. Huge growth in recent years. #ssp
9:32:04 AM: Greatest scientist population density is under 34 demographic. #ssp
9:32:51 AM: Today the world creates 15 Petabytes of new data in a day. #ssp
9:33:41 AM: Radio took 38 years to reach the user base Facebook had after two. #ssp
9:34:39 AM: 84% of scientists believe that papers should be freely available. 44% feel strongly about this.. #ssp
9:35:00 AM: RT @pablofe: so far, the keynote #ssp09 could have applied to several points in history
9:36:32 AM: Scientists are now using the web to post sophisticated info online (e.g. real-time data).
9:36:52 AM: 34% of scientists now blog. #ssp
9:37:53 AM: RT @cfmeds: What about the other 20-40%. 30% of scientists not interested in world peace? (That’ll be the evil scientists?) #ssp09
9:38:14 AM: “Science is a culture of DIY.” #ssp
9:39:14 AM: Scientists fix things. Scientists don’t wait for us. However, these DIY methods don’t integrate, and are redundant. #ssp
9:40:23 AM: It was 20 years ago that the world wide web was created by a scientist to solve a problem. #ssp
9:41:46 AM: China and India will always have more scientists than the US, UK or Canada.
9:43:11 AM: As China and the Arab world advance, the issue for us is not just output. Will science be done the same way with these changes? #ssp
9:44:21 AM: What will science look like with Chinese and Arab influences? #ssp
9:45:19 AM: Seed launched science blogs in Brazil, and they quickly overtook science blogs in Germany. #ssp
9:46:30 AM: Science has changed: Large Hadron Collider, supercomputers, multidisciplinary cancer research. #ssp
9:47:39 AM: The scholarly publishing industry came to be in another revolution: the industrial revolution. #ssp
9:49:01 AM: In 1800s, we needed a way to disseminate accurate scientific information. Needed a way to communicate. #ssp
9:49:56 AM: Scientists used to communicate their findings via letters. #ssp
9:51:18 AM: RT @annmichael: Adam Bly #ssp09 are blogs the current version of the letters Adam is showing us now? [AW: I was thinking the same thing.]
9:53:02 AM: Bly: “We need to architect a brand new infrastructure … based on the understanding of a new generation of innovators.” #ssp
9:54:27 AM: We need a digital core, not just digital tools. #ssp
9:54:58 AM: RT @TAC_NISO: Problem with looking back on nature of science in 17th C is the present scale is impossible for 1 person to understand all
9:55:46 AM: We need a free flow of information – today’s system is designed to limit it. #ssp
9:57:07 AM: We need to advance interdisciplinary science. We should see a wave of mergers and joint ventures in the scholarly publishing community. #ssp
9:58:27 AM: We need to go further to connect the developed and the developing world. Insure that IP rights allow for innovation. #ssp
9:59:53 AM: Librarians: we need to extract new knowledge from information. #ssp
10:01:31 AM: The challenge is to develop a new level of information literacy. #ssp
10:04:11 AM: Societies and conferences bring scientists together. We need to now “think virtually” to let them do science together. #ssp
10:04:53 AM: Bly: “We need to lead the social change toward universal science literacy.” #ssp
10:06:20 AM: Publishers need to collaborate. “They’re not ‘our readers.'” Scientists and scholars pursue truth. They need information. #ssp
10:08:31 AM: Science publishers need to think about whether or not we are servicing scientists. #ssp
10:10:09 AM: Scientists’ blogs are like the letters of the 19th century. Today, the challenge is to make these contribute to the scholarly record. #ssp
10:12:58 AM: Seed is launching ResearchBlogging 2.0 today, and ReseachBloggingConnect, a free application to take blogs back into journals. #ssp
10:13:40 AM: Announcement: ResearchBlogging can now link to arXiv.org and PubMed from within posts. #ssp
10:14:33 AM: New channel on ScienceBlogs to advance the conversation about information science. #ssp
10:15:51 AM: ScienceBlogs just surpassed 2 million unique visitors on the network this past week. #ssp
10:17:18 AM: New data visualization project from GE: http://healthimagination.com #ssp09
10:17:57 AM: RT @TAC_NISO: Not sure I appreciate the advertisements that Bly ended with. #ssp09
10:18:12 AM: RT @nickwwpt: Fellow SSP tweeters if you want to meet up feel free to use our booth(206) as a staging point in coffee break..#ssp09
10:19:41 AM: Bly wants a world connected by science and imagination. #ssp09
10:20:53 AM: Adam Bly on scientific publishers: “Scientists rely on us, and the world relies on them.” #ssp09