The Digital Library and e-Publishing for Science, Technology, and Medicine 2004

Monday, 14 June 2004

Introduction to electronic publishing and the role of the library

9:00 hrs Welcome and introduction to the course (building 593, room R-010)

  • opening
  • practical information
  • learning objectives
  • course methods
Esther Bruls
Course manager, Ticer B.V., NL

Rick Luce
Director, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

9:15 hrs Introduction to electronic publishing and the role of the library (building 593, room R-010)

  • scholarly communication
  • journal publishing
  • journals' crisis
  • alternatives to traditional journal publishing
  • libraries licensing electronic content
  • libraries supporting self-publishing
  • changing roles of the different parties (libraries, publishers, scholars, intermediairies)
Dr. Carol Tenopir
Professor of Information Sciences, Interim Director, Center for Information Studies, University of Tennessee, USA

10:15 hrs Discussion (building 593, room R-010)

Dr. Carol Tenopir
Professor of Information Sciences, Interim Director, Center for Information Studies, University of Tennessee, USA

10:45 hrs Coffee/tea

11:15 hrs IT and electronic publishing: issues, trends and developments (building 593, room R-010)

  • metadata
  • pre-print server technology
  • SGML and XML
  • formats of e-journals and e-reports
  • hardware support and requirements
Teun Nijssen
Security Advisor, Information Services, Tilburg University, NL

12:15 hrs Discussion (building 593, room R-010)

Teun Nijssen
Security Advisor, Information Services, Tilburg University, NL

12:30 hrs Lunch (CERN Restaurant no.2)

13:45 hrs Group photo will be taken of the class "Digital Library and e-Publishing for STM" (Outside the CERN Restaurant)

14:00 hrs Current state of medical libraries (building 593, room R-010)

  • overview
  • problems
  • solutions
Ronald van Dieën
Consultant Medical Libraries, Ingressus B.V., NL

15:00 hrs Creating and exploiting digital collections in particle physics (building 593, room R-010)

  • preprint history and the start of the electronic era
  • digital collection building
  • locating the documents in the database
  • linking to the digital documents and other information
  • future developments
David Dallman
Senior Scientific Information Officer, CERN, Scientific Information Service, CH

16:00 hrs Coffee/tea

16:30 hrs Workshop discussion: Digital library and e-publishing issues and topics (building 593, room R-010)

Rick Luce
Library Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA

17:30 hrs End of programme, possibility to have dinner at the self-service CERN restaurant

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Last updated 4 June 2004.