ALPSP International Learned Journals Seminar - 4 APRIL 2003

[Ann Okerson <aokerson@pantheon.yale.edu>]

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From: Debbie Stoddart <marketing@ALPSP.ORG>
Subject: ALPSP International Learned Journals  Seminar  -  4 APRIL 2003

(with apologies for cross posting)

You will find details below of the forthcoming ALPSP International Learned
Journals seminar.  If you would like to book a place please contact Lesley
Ogg on 01245 260571 or email events@alpsp.org.

19TH INTERNATIONAL LEARNED JOURNALS SEMINAR

Who pays for the Free Lunch?  Alternative funding models for research
communication.

Friday 4 April 2003 
One Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ 
Chair: Declan Butler, Nature

Maximising access to research information is an objective which benefits
everyone - authors as well as readers.  However, many of the processes of
traditional publication are still valuable - some more than ever, in a
world of 'information overload'.  These processes still cost money,
irrespective of the medium of publication, and the costs of carrying them
out still have to be borne at some point in the information chain - the
big question is, by whom?  And how do we get from here to there?

In this seminar, speakers will explore the rationale for 'Open Access',
look at the functions of publication which still need to be preserved, and
examine actual projects and forward-looking initiatives which test
alternative funding models.

Programme

0930    Coffee & Registration

1000    Introduction from the Chair, Declan Butler, Nature

1010    Keynote Speaker 

Free Access to information today.  Who benefits? What are the risks? Who
pays?  William Y Arms, Cornell University

1040     Coffee

WHAT STILL NEEDS TO BE PAID FOR ?

1100    What researchers really value: the ALPSP study, Alma Swan, Key 
Perspectives Ltd 

1120 	The value of scientific information: "authors want to publish more,
readers want to read less"

Prof Dr Hans E Roosendaal, University of Twente 

1140    What publishers add, Janet Boullin, Oxford University Press 

1200    What it really costs, Prof Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee 

1230    Questions and Discussion 

1245    Lunch

HOW WILL IT GET PAID FOR IN FUTURE? ARE ALTERNATIVE MODELS WORKING?           

1400    Institution pays 

Jan Velterop, BioMed Central

1420    Changing the model, Mark Doyle, American Physical Society      

1440    Is there such a thing as a viable alternative model?
Declan Butler, Nature 

1500    Debate 

AND THE CONSEQUENCE IS...

1530    The end of the line for publishers (and societies)? 
Sue Thorn, Society for Endocrinology

1600    Is there a way forward?  Mary Case, ARL

1630    Closing panel discussion 

1700    Close and tea


Registration fees including lunch (excl VAT)
ALPSP member �175/$284
SSP/SFEP individual member �255/$400
Non-member �320/$495 

For Further information: www.alpsp.org/s040403.htm; 
Telephone +44 (0)1245 260571; email events@alpsp.org  or register online
 
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Debbie Stoddart
Email: marketing@alpsp.org
Telephone:+44  (0)1780 757005
Fax: +44 (0) 1780 757005