International Summer School on the Digital Library 2000, Week 2

Tuesday afternoon, 8 August 2000

Competition, costing and pricing

14.00 hrs The SPARC initiative (QZ 105)

  • problems in the journals marketplace
  • options for change
  • the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
  • partnering with publishers
  • the role of libraries
  • case studies
Richard Johnson
SPARC Enterprise Director, The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, USA

15.00 hrs Coffee/tea (Foyer building Q)

15.15 hrs Costing and pricing models (QZ 105)

  • economics and electronic access to scholarly information
  • pricing schemes
  • user response to different pricing schemes
  • impact of the different pricing schemes on producer revenues
  • alternative E journal projects
  • post-submission peer review distribution models
  • hidden costs of electronic journals
David Stern
Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Yale University, Kline Science Library, USA

16.15 hrs Workshop (QZ 105, QZ 203/204/205/206)

Hans Geleijnse
Librarian, Tilburg University Library, NL

17.00 hrs End of sessions

18.00 hrs Departure of the bus at hotel "Auberge de Bonheur"

18.05 hrs Departure of the bus at the student apartments

18.30 hrs Dinner (Restaurant "Allebei" in town)

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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 21 July 2000.