Connecting with Buyers and Users in the Digital Marketplace

Are your institutional subscription dollars safe? Is there a successful business model for digital books and electronic archives? How do researchers really use scientific, technical, and medical publications? Four panels of nationally recognized speakers will answer these questions and more during these Educational Seminars.

Understanding Researchers

When: November 13, 2006
Where: ASAE Conference Center, Washington, DC

Speakers:

• Joseph Verbalis, MD Georgetown University
• SiNae Pitts, PhD Science Circle
• Kenneth Baldwin, PhD University of California - Irvine
• Laura Brockway, PhD FASEB
• Eline Luning Prak, MD, PhD University of Pennsylvania
• William McDonough, PhD University of Maryland
• Margaret Reich, American Physiological Society
• Alan Schechter, MD National Institutes of Health Library
• Robert Williams, PhD University of Tennessee
• Juddi Yeh, MD Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

The Business of Digital Books...

When: November 14, 2006
Where: ASAE Conference Center, Washington, DC

Speakers:

• Stephen DeCroes, McGraw-Hill Companies
• Frank Grazioli, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Toby Green, OECD Publishing
• Bob Stein, Institute for the Future of the Book
• Chris Biemesderfer, Seagoat Consulting

What Works in Archiving?...

When: November 15, 2006
Where: ASAE Conference Center, Washington, DC

Speakers:

• Eileen Fenton, Portico e-Archiving Service
• Vicky Reich, Stanford University Libraries
• John Shaw, SAGE Publications, Inc.

Library Cancellation Decisions...

When: November 15, 2006
Where: ASAE Conference Center, Washington, DC

Speakers:

• Karla Hahn, Association of Research Libraries
• Susanna Van Sant, University of Maryland
• Yvonne Lev, Towson University
• Linda Pikula, National Oceanographic Data Center
• Anne Linton, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library