ALPSP/PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories

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Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 17:42:50 +0100
From: "Debbie Stoddart (ALPSP)" <marketing@alpsp.org>
Subject: ALPSP/PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories

PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and their impact on scholarly
publishing
      
24 June 2004 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Regents
Park, London NW1(map)

Chair: Jon Conibear, Group Journals Managing Director Taylor & Francis

A one-day conference for publishers, library and information managers,
academics and university/college administrators, enabling them to engage
with the key issues surrounding new institutional web-based repositories
of academic materials.

Find Out About

  a.. Strategically important developments in institutional repositories

  b.. How open access to the research outputs of universities via
institutional repositories might affect the business models of publishers

  c.. Case studies from leading institutional repositories

  d.. The kind of content that is currently stored on institutional
repositories and how this is planned to develop

  e.. Other key issues for publishers, including copyright, impact on
journal author submissions and the effect on library budgets

  f.. The issues for universities and colleges developing an institutional
repository

  g.. How one leading publisher is collaborating with an institutional
repository Institutional repositories and their impact on publishing

Institutional repositories-web-based, institution-focused archives of
scholarly content-have been receiving increasing attention recently. They
are seen by some advocates of self-archiving as a more promising route to
open access than subject-based archives, although the latter have been
very successful in a few disciplines. Their contents, which are generally
freely available, can include journal article eprints (both preprints and
postprints), theses and dissertations, technical reports, working papers
and other grey literature, datasets and other digital material. A number
of significant developments, such as the launch of MIT's DSpace in the
autumn of 2002, as well as the University of California's eScholarship and
the growth of repositories based on the University of Southampton's EPrint
software, have brought the issue of institutional repositories
increasingly to the fore.

Who should attend

This conference is essential for those potentially affected by the
deployment of institutional repositories: Publishers, especially in
journal and academic publishing; Librarians, academics and other HE/FE
staff involved in setting up and managing repositories; and Senior
university/college administrators interested in the policy implications of
institutional repositories.

Fees, including lunch and refreshments: �195 + VAT @ 17.5% (Total =
�229.13)

To register: go to http://www.alpsp.org/events/PALS04.htm or telephone
Lesley Ogg on 01245 260571, email: events@alpsp.org

About PALS 

PALS is the ongoing collaboration between UK publishers (ALPSP and the
Publishers Association) and higher/further education (JISC). PALS aims to
foster mutual understanding and work collaboratively towards the solution
of issues arising from electronic publication.

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Debbie Stoddart
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