Call for Contributions

INCONECSS Conference: Research support in an Age of AI

INCONECSS is an international conference for researchers, librarians and other information specialists supporting researchers, faculty, teachers and students in Economics and Business Studies. INCONECSS aspires to be the platform for the exchange of ideas on changing user needs and services as well as the evolving landscape of scholarly publishing. INCONECSS encourages conversations between researchers, information specialists and other people working in fields related to information provision for research in Economics and Business Studies.

The conference will consist of curated sessions (e.g. keynote/panel) and community contributed sessions. The community contributed sessions will have the following formats: Posters, Presentation, Short presentation (details below).

We invite academics, librarians and staff from universities and libraries to submit original contributions on services or best practice and experience, including but not limited to the following:

• Will AI change everything? – Generative Information Retrieval
  • Library roles and responsibilities in an AI augmented world (e.g. Library/discovery and access of the future/ Future of search, Future of metadata, Librarians as prompt engineers…)
  • Impact of AI on the research process (e.g. AI-supported peer-review, academic integrity vs misconduct, fraud /retractions of AI-generated articles, …)
  • Legal topics/ guidelines, rules and regulations: Understanding the Contracts (e.g. Institutional rights retention…)
  • Risks and awareness of limitations (e.g. discrimination, misinformation, misuse, Are tools beneficial or not? Do users/students understand the limits?….)
  • Open AI tools versus closed AI tools (which tools are really open?)
  • Change of business models (e.g. publishers become data platforms…)
  • Upskilling process within the institutions
  • Networking and sharing knowledge: How can we all stay up-to-date on current important developments? Who can monitor and select important developments?
  • AI and Information Literacy: Teaching Critical Thinking
    
    
• Everything Open? Open Science, Open Access, Open Data, Open Education
  • Open Science/open scholarship and the role of libraries – best practices from different parts of the world (e.g. Open Science strategies in libraries…)
  • Open Access (e.g. Transformational/transitional agreements – are they beneficial? Diamond Open Access models…)
  • Open Data (e.g. reproducibility, Do editors encourage the publishing of research data? Using Machine Learning to analyze (open) data…)
  • Open Education (e.g. OER, Where to find or publish OER, Improving access to open textbooks…)
  • Creative Commons licenses and attributions

• Scholarly Communication, Research Support and Academic Skills
  • How to support students, scholars, early career researchers? (e.g. services that support teaching staff and students…)
  • Journals: Quality Control (e.g. Predatory Journals, Journal Impact / Journals rankings and lists of journals/ TOP Journal guidelines, Criticism of rankings and lists …)
  • Supporting the research process online (e.g. sharing tutorials, videos, best practices)
  • Information Literacy, Media Literacy, AI Literacy, Academic Skills
     
• Databases
  • Which databases do institutions subscribe to? Who pays?
  • Which databases cover which content? Which are redundant?
  • Tools /Overviews

• New Work and Sustainability
  • Socializing and collaborating while many staff members work at home
  • Changing buildings and office spaces
  • Sustainable Development Goals (e.g. Creating awareness, Shareconomy, Reputation and ranking aspects of SDG, assessing impact…)
    
• Plus: Any other timely topic that would be of interest to the target groups of the conference

Submission process:

The conference language is English, all submissions must be in English.

Abstract submission

• Abstracts should contain the title of the presentation and a description of major findings or experiences. Cover why this is new or innovative and/or why this presentation/information is beneficial for the audience.
• Please submit an abstract of your planned presentation with a maximum of 400 words via the online submission system: https://www.conftool.net/inconecss2025/
• All contributions have to be submitted through ConfTool and will be reviewed by the committee members.
• During the submission process, you will be asked if your contribution is for a poster, a presentation, or a short presentation or if your contribution could be presented in any of the formats.

Details on presentations and formats

• Poster: Poster presentations are a highly valued and central part of the INCONECSS. There will be a 90 minute time slot for parallel poster presentations (plus all poster presenters get a 1 minute presentation-slot to advertise posters)
• Presentation: 20 minute presentation plus 10 minutes for Q&A and discussion
• Short presentation: 10 minute presentation plus open format for discussion.In order to allow presentations on very up to date topics, we take suggestions after the submission deadline. Short presentations can be on any of the topics listed above or on some services, you would like to share, a discussion on an important topic you would like to start or anything else you can think of as useful to the audience.
• We expect presenters to make their presentations available after the conference. (e.g. upload poster PDF or presentations slides to your institutional repository or on Zenodo and share the URL with us or submit them to us to make them available on the conference website no later than 4 weeks after the conference)

Criteria for evaluation of the submissions by the program committee

• All submissions will be reviewed based on criteria of relevance to the conference scope and theme, originality and quality
• Relevance for the target groups (information specialists, researchers, librarians in the context of business and economics research)

Important Dates

• Call for Contributions published: 11 November 2024
• Abstract Submission: 10 December 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: 24 January 2025
• Final submission of document/presentation: 2 May 2025
• Conference Dates: 15-16 May 2025
• Please Note: There is an exception for some short presentations. Short presentation proposals can also be submitted after the deadline to keep them open for very up-to-date topics. These topics can be submitted up until March 31st.

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact:
veranstaltungen@zbw.eu