National Academy Symposium (plus Webcast) May 19-20, 2003

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

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

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. If you cannot attend, you may participate in the symposium by
listening to a live audio webcast and submitting questions using an e-mail
form at http://national-academies.org. Listening to the webcast requires
either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. RealPlayer software is
available free at http://www.real.com/player. Windows Media Player is
available free at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads. For more information
on using these players, see the respective Web sites.

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.