National Academies Electronic Publishing Symposium

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

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THE SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, AND MEDICAL JOURNAL
PUBLISHING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS will be held 19-20 May 2003, at the
National Academy of Sciences Auditorium, located at 2100 C Street NW, in
Washington, DC.

The symposium will bring together experts in STM publishing, both
producers and users of these publications, to: identify the recent
technical changes in publishing, and other factors, that influence the
decisions of journal publishers to produce journals electronically;
identify the needs of the scientific, engineering, and medical community
as users of journals, whether electronic or printed; discuss the responses
of not-for-profit and commercial STM publishers and of other stakeholders
in the STM community to the opportunities and challenges posed by the
shift to electronic publishing; and examine the spectrum of proposals that
has been put forth to respond to the needs of users as the publishing
industry shifts to electronic information production and dissemination.
The meeting will be free and open to the public, but advance registration
is required.

For additional information and registration, please visit the Symposium
web site at: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cosepup/E-Publishing.html
or contact the project director, Paul Uhlir at (202) 334 2807 or e-mail:
puhlir@nas.edu.