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2000 Annual Meeting

Schedule

Thursday June 1, 2000

History and Hysteria: The (Un)changing Nature of Scholarly Communication

Moderator:
  • Michael Mabe, Director of Academic Relations, Elsevier Science, Inc.
Speakers:
  • Dr. Hans Roosendaal, Director of Information at University of Twente Prof.
  • Carol Tenopir, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee
  • Donald King, Consultant, formerly King Research

The demise of the journal has been regularly predicted by pundits over the last 30 years but has yet to arrive. Amidst the hysteria of the digital revolution, sober socioeconomic and historical analysis of the scholarly communication system has revealed the root causes of the ‘serials crisis’ and the (im)mutability of the fundamental functions of the system.

New Initiatives in Scholarly Communication: Heads-Up!

Moderator:
  • Judy Luther, Informed Strategies

Do Authors Want What Readers Want?

Moderator:
  • John Cox, Consultant, John Cox Associates
Speakers:
  • Mayur Amin, Elsevier Science, Inc.
  • Dr. David Pullinger, Consultant
  • Prof. Carol Tenopir, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee
  • Donald King, Consultant, formerly King Research

Much thinking in scholarly publishing is predicated on ‘what the researcher wants’ with the assumption that this is constant whether the researcher is acting as an author or a reader. This session explores what we know about the contradictory ways in which the same individuals behave depending upon whether their role is producer or user.

The Age of the E-Book and Other Portable Display Devices

Moderator:
  • Kent Anderson, Director, Division of Medical Journals & Professional Periodicals, American Academy of Pediatrics
Speakers:
  • Carlos Nunez, President, eMDNetwork
  • Daniel Munyon, President, Everbook Inc.
  • Bill Hill, Microsoft e-Book

As the Web has developed, so have new display technologies capable of integrating with networked information resources. From e-books to Palm Pilots, journals are finding their ways onto more portable devices. This panel will discuss production issues, business models, technical considerations, and an outlook for the future.

Linking : Adding Value to Electronic Resources Through Linking Arrangements

Moderator:
  • Marie Hansen, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Speakers:
  • Jeff Dougherty, ISI
  • Christine Lamb, Ingenta
  • Evan Owens, Electronic Publishing Manager, Journals Division, The University of Chicago Press

Why is linking important and how is it accomplished? How do collaborations between publishers and outside vendors, aggregators, and other publishers work? Representatives from a publisher, an abstracting & indexing company, and a distributor of online journals will discuss what they are doing to link their online products to external resources.

Library Collection and Access Issues in the Third Millennium

Moderator:
  • Gail McMillen, Virginia Tech
Speakers:
  • Jim Neal, Director of Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University
  • Paul Metz, Chief Development Officer, Virginia Tech
  • Kathy Perry, Project Director, VIVA (Virtual Library of Virginia)

How do academic librarians decide what to add to their collections, to which electronic resources to give their users access and how to deal with consortia purchase issues? Get the ‘big picture’ and pragmatic viewpoints.

High Tech Production

Moderator:
  • Kent Anderson, Director, Division of Medical Journals & Professional Periodicals, American Academy of Pediatrics
Speakers:
  • Anne Spencer, Jones & Bartlett
  • Fran Steck, Cadmus Journal Services
  • Kathryn Henniss, HighWire Press
  • Heather Joseph, American Society for Cell Biology

Rights and Wrongs: Where Do We Stand With Issues of Copyright, Licenses, and Rights Management?

Moderator:
  • John Cox, Consultant, John Cox Associates
Speakers:
  • Ann Okerson, Yale Univerity Libraries
  • David K. Ades, Publisher Relations Manager, eMeta Corporation

As the change in scholarly publishing accelerates ‘Back to the Future,’ the conventional models for copyright and rights management are changing rapidly. This session will update you on recent developments with licensing arrangements, digital rights management technology and other relevant issues.

Friday, June 2, 2000

New Business Models and Market Reaction

Moderator:
  • Stephen Prudhomme, Consultant
Speakers:
  • Susan Spilka, John Wiley & Sons
  • Susan Knapp, American Psychological Association
  • Chuck Hamaker, Director of Libraries, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Electronic subscriptions have been around for a few years now, but what about really ‘new’ business for scholarly publishers? A speaker from the for-profit sector and one from a scientific society will talk about some alternatives, followed by a prominent representative from the library community who will let us know how these and other developments are being received by our better customers.

The Evolution of Reference Publishing

Moderator:
  • Jennifer Crewe, Editorial Director, Columbia University Press
Speakers:
  • Karen Day, Publisher, Charles Scribner’s Sons Reference, on the story of the Renaissance Encyclopedia
  • Eileen Sutter, Director of Marketing & Sales, Grove’s Dictionaries
  • Robert Oppedisano, Director of Marketing and Sales for Scholarly and Professional Reference, Oxford University Press, on the American National Biography
  • James Raimes, Assistant Director for Reference Publishing, Columbia University Press, on The Columbia Gazeteer and Granger’s Index to Poetry

Learn how four leading recently published, award-winning reference works have met the challenges posed by changes in library purchasing and the electronic environment.

Turning the Titanic: Reorganization and Retooling for Digital Products

Moderator:
  • Janet Fisher, The MIT Press
Speakers:
  • Frank Urbanowski, Director, The MIT Press
  • John Tagler, Director of Corporate Communications, Elsevier Science, Inc.
  • Deborah C. Herrin, New Product Development, Optical Society of America

The shift to digital products requires businesses to retool, refocus, and reorganize. Three different publishers will describe how their organizations are changing in order to stay competitive in the new digital age.

Archiving Digital Content

Moderator:
  • Gail McMillen, Virginia Tech
Speakers:
  • Gail M. Hodge, Senior Information Specialist Information International Associates, Inc., Consultant to the International Council for Scientific and Technical
  • Deanna Marcum, President, Council on Library and Information Resources
  • Andrea Keyhani, OCLC Online Computer Library Center

Libraries and archives are society’s vehicles for ensuring that the knowledge that is created today will be preserved for tomorrow’s researchers. If the brittle book problems have not disappeared and the problem of preserving audio and visual materials continues unabated, how can we be sure that digital objects will be preserved, whether by the library, the publisher or other aggregators? Learn not only about the issues, but current practices and future plans from library and publisher perspectives.

Abuse of Online Content

Moderator:
  • Aldyth Holmes, NRC Research Press
Speakers:
  • David Gillikin, Science/AAAS
  • Ned Quist, Head of Information Services, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
  • Chet Grycz, CEO and Publisher Octavo, formerly of iParidigm and plagarism.org

The proliferation and availability of scholarly information on the Web and through consortia has spawned new and innovative versions of accessing and reusing original material – from the stretching of licensing rights to the outright theft of material. Academics are flexing and exploiting their ownership rights,changing the traditional landscape of scholarly communication. This session will examine how academics, librarians and publishers are navigating these contentious waters and explore strategies to manage the problems.

Repacking and Distribution of Knowledge

Moderator:
  • Susan Knapp, American Psychological Association
Speakers:
  • Chris Beckett, CatchWord, Ltd.
  • Terence Halliday, PrimeSource

Once the Information is digitized, what then? How will publishers sell/distribute that information and is there anything else they can do with this file? CatchWord has been working and changing right along with the publishing community they serve focusing on distribution, while PrimeSource has applied principles from cognitive science and artificial intelligence to create a new teaching/learning tool, based on available digitized information.

Functionality and Accessibility of Digital Content: New Features on the Horizon

Moderator:
Speakers:
  • John Unsworth, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
  • Susanna Pathak, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
  • Kent Anderson, Director, Division of Medical Journals & Professional Periodicals, American Academy of Pediatrics

Now that publications can be digital, what new features are being tried in the evolution of the book and the journal? And how do these fit into the needs of the users and libraries?