International Summer School on the Digital Library 2001, Course 3

Tuesday, 9 October 2001

The (commercial) e-publishing market

9:00 hrs Surfing the 3rd wave: the added value of a publisher in a changing world (Teatro)

  • peer-review
  • editors
  • networking
Jonathan Clark
Director, Elsevier Science, ScienceDirect, NL

10:30 hrs Coffee/tea (coffee room behind the Teatro)

11:00 hrs The new value proposition: Questia Media, Inc. and its business model for electronic full-text (Teatro)

  • introduction to Questia SM
  • the value proposition for information services (for publishers, for users, for librarians)
  • marketing messages for information services
  • higher education in the U.S. and the commercial sector
Carol Ann Hughes
Director Collections Management, Questia Media, Inc., USA

12:00 hrs The SPARC Initiative (Teatro)

  • problems in the journals marketplace
  • options for change
  • the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition SPARC (http://www.arl.org/sparc) and SPARC Europe
  • the role of libraries
  • case studies
Rick Johnson
SPARC Enterprise Director, The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, USA

13:00 hrs Lunch (Sala Rossa or Loggia)

14:30 hrs Costing and pricing models (Teatro)

  • 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

15:30 hrs Coffee/tea (coffee room behind the Teatro)

15:45 hrs Workshop / Discussion (Teatro, Sala 1, Sala 3, President's conference room, Library room 17)

Jonathan Clark
Director, Elsevier Science, ScienceDirect, NL

Hans Geleijnse
Director of Information Service and Systems, European University Institute, IT

Carol Ann Hughes
Director Collections Management, Questia Media, Inc., USA

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

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

17:30 hrs End of sessions

20:00 hrs Dinner at restaurant "Ristorante Francescano"

22:30 hrs End of programme

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Last updated 3 October 2001.