International Spring School on the Digital Library and E-publishing for Science and Technology 2002

Sunday, 3 March 2002

Welcome

afternoon arrival of participants and lecturers in Geneva

20:00 hrs Jens Vigen and Jola Prinsen will meet participants and lecturers (Your own hostel lobby)

20:30 hrs Welcome dinner (Restaurant Meyrinoise, Meyrin)

22:30 hrs End of programme

Monday, 4 March 2002

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
Jola Prinsen
Deputy manager, Ticer B.V., NL

9:20 hrs Introduction to electronic publishing (building 593, room R-010)

  • transformation of the current publishing field
  • changes in the information chain
  • change factors
  • publishing industry
  • impact on the principal players in the information chain
  • changing role of the intermediary/librarian
  • the library as a publisher, a facilitator and a gateway to information
Hans Geleijnse
Director of Information Service and Systems, European University Institute, IT

11:00 hrs Coffee/tea (sponsored by Dialog Europe throughout the week)

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
Senior project manager, Tilburg University, Computer Centre, NL

13:00 hrs Lunch

14:15 hrs A group photo will be taken of the Spring School class

14:30 hrs Case study: Electronic journals and electronic publishing at Los Alamos (building 593, room R-010)

  • initiatives
  • experiences
  • lessons learned
Rick Luce
Library Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA

15:30 hrs Electronic journals and electronic publishing at CERN : a case study (building 593, room R-010)

  • initiatives
  • experiences
  • lessons learned
David Dallman
Senior Scientific Information Officer, CERN, Scientific Information Service, CH

16:30 hrs Coffee/tea

16:45 hrs Workshop (building 593, room R-010)

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

David Dallman
Senior Scientific Information Officer, CERN, Scientific Information Service, CH

17:30 hrs End of sessions

18:00 hrs Joint dinner at the self-service CERN restaurant

19:30 hrs End of programme

Tuesday, 5 March 2002

The (commercial) e-publishing market

9:00 hrs The strategy of Elsevier Science (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 Coffee/tea

10:15 hrs The E-publishing strategy of Springer-Verlag (building 593, room R-010)

  • Springer's future role in the information chain
  • libraries' future role in the information chain
  • Springer-Verlag's e-publishing strategy
  • Springer-Verlag's policy with regard to licensing and consortia, preprint servers, reference linking and standards
  • what Springer has learned from the market based on their experiences to date with e-journals
  • technical issues or concerns which have limited quicker deployment
Gertraud Griepke
Journals/LINK director, Springer-Verlag, GE

11:15 hrs Coffee/tea

11:30 hrs Developing new E-publishing strategies for the American Physical Society's journals (building 593, room R-010)

  • APS journals
  • APS peer review
  • APS intellectual property policies
  • APS and e-print servers
  • APS strategy for long-term archiving of digital documents
  • changing economics of journal publishing
  • using electronic publishing to enhance scholarly communication
Mark Doyle
Manager, Product Development, The American Physical Society, USA

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

Mark Doyle
Manager, Product Development, The American Physical Society, USA

Jonathan Clark
Technology Director, Elsevier Science, NL

Gertraud Griepke
Journals/LINK director, Springer-Verlag, GE

Rick Johnson
SPARC Enterprise Director, The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, USA

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

13:00 Lunch

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
Rick Johnson
SPARC Enterprise Director, The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, USA

15:30 hrs Coffee/tea

15:45 hrs Workshop / Discussion (building 593, room R-010)

Mark Doyle
Manager, Product Development, The American Physical Society, USA

Jonathan Clark
Technology Director, Elsevier Science, NL

Gertraud Griepke
Journals/LINK director, Springer-Verlag, GE

Rick Johnson
SPARC Enterprise Director, The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, USA

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

17:30 hrs End of sessions

18:00 hrs Joint dinner at the self-service CERN restaurant

19:30 hrs End of programme

Wednesday morning, 6 March 2002

Licensing and consortia

9:00 hrs Licensing: the do's and don'ts (building 593, room R-010)

Emanuella Giavarra
Copyright lawyer, Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy, UK

10:00 hrs Library consortia (building 593, room R-010)

Frederick Friend
Director Scholarly Communication, University College London, UK

11:00 hrs Coffee/tea

11:15 hrs Consortia and licensing in the United States: The OhioLINK experience (building 593, room R-010)

  • a new and widely copied model of ejournal purchase
  • OhioLINK (http://www.ohiolink.edu)
  • practical experiences
  • e-use of non subscribed journals
David Kohl
Dean for Libraries, University of Cincinnati, 640 Langsam Library, USA

12:15 hrs Workshop / discussion (building 593, room R-010)

Emanuella Giavarra
Copyright lawyer, Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy, UK

David Kohl
Dean for Libraries, University of Cincinnati, 640 Langsam Library, USA

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

Frederick Friend
Director Scholarly Communication, University College London, UK

13:00 hrs Lunch

Wednesday afternoon, 6 March 2002 (members of the Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists Geneva will attend the lectures)

Electronic self-publishing

14.00 hrs The strategy of Dialog (building 593, room R-010)

  • general presentation
  • publishing data harvested from Dialog on your intranet
Morten Nicholaisen
Central European Sales Director, Dialog Europe, DK

14:30 hrs The xxx.lanl archive (building 593, room R-010)

  • organisational aspects
  • technical aspects
Rick Luce
Library Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA

15:30 hrs Coffee/tea

15:45 hrs Interoperability standards to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content (building 593, room R-010)

  • position of the library in the information chain
  • fitness of the established mechanism for scholarly communication
  • alternative conceptual models and concrete initiatives (e.g. pre-prints)
  • the Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org)
  • the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
  • Libraries and the Open Archives Initiative
Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA

16:45 hrs Workshop / discussion (building 593, room R-010)

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

Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA

17:30 hrs Cocktail sponsored by the Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists Geneva

19:00 hrs End of programme, no joint dinner for participants

Thursday morning, 7 March 2002

External factors: pricing models and adaptations in special libraries

9:00 hrs Costing and pricing models in science and technology libraries : Part 1, Cost histories and reactions (building 593, room R-010)

  • inflation: the history and the factors
  • changes in technology: online and enhancements
  • user desires and current services (NLP, visualizations, linking)
  • examples of new products/services
David Stern
Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Yale University, Kline Science Library, USA

9:35 hrs Costing and pricing models in science and technology libraries : Part 2, Pricing models (building 593, room R-010)

  • differential pricing
  • local considerations for selection: who, how, what?
  • use-based pricing vs standard packages
  • unbundled and integrated media resource packages
  • the role of selection agents
David Stern
Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Yale University, Kline Science Library, USA

10:15 hrs Coffee/tea

10:30 hrs Digital library and e-publishing developments in chemistry (building 593, room R-010)

  • historical background of chemical information
  • importance of secondary sources in chemistry (abstracting & indexing)
  • serial crisis and e-journals
  • information at the chemist's work bench
  • adapting a special library: from holdings to servers and services, from OPACs to Portals
  • support, training, and education (courses and multimedia)
Engelbert Zass
Chemical Information Specialist, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Chemistry Biology Information Center, CH

11:30 hrs Panel and questions from the audience (building 593, room R-010)

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

David Stern
Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Yale University, Kline Science Library, USA

Engelbert Zass
Chemical Information Specialist, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Chemistry Biology Information Center, CH

12:00 hrs Lunch

Thursday afternoon, 7 March 2002

Integrating digital content

13:30 hrs Reference linking (building 593, room R-010)

  • reference linking & extended services
  • context-sensitive linking
  • the OpenURL framework for context-sensitive linking
  • NISO standardisation of OpenURL
  • reference linking via DOI/CrossRef
  • integration of the OpenURL framework and the DOI/CrossRef framework
Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, USA

14.30 hrs Coffee/tea

14.45 hrs Integrating digital content: the Decomate II project (building 593, room R-010)

Thomas Place
Deputy librarian, Tilburg University Library, NL

15.30 hrs Integrating digital content: the CERN solution (building 593, room R-010)

Jens Vigen
Scientific Information Officer, CERN, Scientific Information Service, CH

16.15 hrs Coffee/tea

16.30 hrs Workshop / discussion (building 593, room R-010)

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

Thomas Place
Deputy librarian, Tilburg University Library, NL

Jens Vigen
Scientific Information Officer, CERN, Scientific Information Service, CH

17:00 hrs End of sessions

20:00 hrs Farewell dinner at restaurant "Les Armures" in Geneva

22.30 hrs End of programme

Friday, 8 March 2002

The future role of science libraries

9:00 hrs Connecting with customers and the future role of science libraries (building 593, room R-010)

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

10:30 hrs Coffee/tea

10:45 hrs Connecting with customers and the future role of science libraries (continued) (building 593, room R-010)

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

13:00 hrs Lunch

14:30 hrs Optional tour of CERN

16:00 hrs End of programme

Ticer home spring school

Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources
Ticer, PO Box 4191, 5004 JD Tilburg, The Netherlands,
telephone +31-13-466 83 10, telefax +31-13-466 83 83, e-mail ticer@uvt.nl,
Last updated 22 February 2002.