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

Tuesday, 15 June 2004

The e-publishing market: commercial publishers and alternatives

9:00 hrs The strategy of a commercial publisher (building 593, room R-010)

  • creating and developing an online platform - ScienceDirect
  • integrating content across platforms - How useful is linking?
  • migrating print to electronic - How does the customer benefit?
Jonathan Clark
Technology Director, Elsevier Science, NL

10:00 hrs The strategy of an alternative approach to commercial publishing (building 593, room R-010)

Jan Velterop
Publisher, BioMed Central, UK

11:00 hrs Coffee/tea

11:30 hrs New models of open access e-publishing and scientific quality assurance: a scientist's perspective (building 593, room R-010)

  • new models of scholarly and scientific communication / publishing
  • new developments in bioscience influencing scientific communication patterns
  • strategy and economic sustainability for the Open Access model
Dr. Ulrich Pöschl
Head of the Aerosol Research Group, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Institute of Hydrochemistry (IWC), GER

12:30 hrs Discussion (building 593, room R-010)

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

Jonathan Clark
Technology Director, Elsevier Science, NL

Jan Velterop
Publisher, BioMed Central, UK

Dr. Ulrich Pöschl
Head of the Aerosol Research Group, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Institute of Hydrochemistry (IWC), GER

13:00 Lunch (CERN Restaurant no.2)

14:30 hrs The SPARC initiative (building 593, room R-010)

  • problems in the journals marketplace
  • options for change
  • the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition SPARC (http://www.arl.org/sparc)
  • partnering with publishers
  • the role of libraries
  • case studies
Bas Savenije
University Librarian, Utrecht University, NL

15:30 hrs Coffee/tea

15:45 hrs The Open Access debate (building 593, room R-010)

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

16.15 hrs Workshop: Scenario planning for content in my organization (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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