Re: 2nd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication .Reminder

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I would love to go to Lund which is such a nice place but I am puzzled by
a meeting on scholarly communication which does not have a single
commercial publisher on the program as an invited speaker.  After all the
great majority of scholars and most learned societies entrust their
publishing to commercial companies. Are the organisers worried in some way
or do they have an explanation or do they have some special agenda?

Anthony Watkinson

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From: "Rabow Ingegerd" <Ingegerd.Rabow@LUB.LU.SE>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 11:32 PM
Subject: 2nd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication .Reminder

Welcome to NCSC2004 - the Second Nordic Conference on Scholarly
Communication. Lund, Sweden, April 26-28, 2004.

 . http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2004/

Following up the success of the First Nordic Conference on Scholarly
Communication, Lund University Libraries are proud to announce the Second
Nordic Conference. The theme of the 2004 conference is "Towards a new
publishing environment".

Since the last conference, held in October 2002, many interesting
developments have taken place with direct consequences for publishers,
researchers and libraries. What implications will a new model for
scholarly communication have for publishers and for funding authorities?
How will the mechanisms for quality control and peer review work in a new
publishing environment and how will the issue of intellectual property
rights be managed?

In order to discuss, present and analyze the problems and challenges that
arise within scholarly communication Lund University Libraries invite
scholars, publishers, vendors, editors, librarians and other interested
parties to the Second Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication 26 - 28
April 2004. The conference will take place every second year and aims to
be an important contribution to the discussion and to the development
within the Nordic countries.

For further information please contact
Henrik �slund at Lund University Libraries Head Office
Email: Henrik.Aslund@lub.lu.se
Phone: +46 46 222 93 33

More detailed information about the conference at
http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2004/