RE: 2nd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication .agendas/Watkinson

["Colin Steele" <Colin.Steele@anu.edu.au>]

As the first invited speaker in Lund I am certainly not aware of any
hidden/special agenda. In an 'holistic' approach to scholarly
communication many of the issues are debates that need to be addressed
within the scholarly community themselves and this has arguably happened
only in fragmented fashion to date.I am certainly aware of academic
practices in relation to commercial publishing and, as Anthony knows,
Michael Mabe of Elsevier forcefully put the Elsevier view via their author
study at the Fiesole conference in Oxford last July! Anthony should come
to Lund to discuss perceived imbalances?  Regards Colin

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Colin Steele. Emeritus Fellow
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and Director Scholarly Information Strategies (2002-2003)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Watkinson [mailto:anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com]
Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2004 10:20 AM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: 2nd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication .Reminder


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

----- Original Message -----

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

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

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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/